Week 3 - The United States
This week we started our studies of countries. We are studying the United States for 2 weeks. Since we spent the entire year studying the United States this is kind of a review. We are working hard at learning the names of all fifty states and other major landmarks, such as the Mississippi River, Mountain Ranges, Gulf of Mexico, Great Lakes, etc. We are also looking at the animals in the United States.
In Science we are studying Forests. We learned the different layers of the forests (emergent, canopy, understory, shrub, herb, floor) and which animals live where. No science experiment this week but we are doing a nature walk tomorrow and will be starting our leaf collection.
We were supposed to make a cake the first week and frost it blue for the oceans and use green frosting to make the continents. We skipped this project as Emma is the only one in the house that will eat cake. And yes she may eat all of it, but I don't think it would be great idea. So this week I came up with the idea of making blue jello and putting it in a large bar pan. We than use whipped cream in a can to make the continents and sprinkled them with green sugar. Now the shapes weren't very accurate - pretty hard to do with whipped cream in a can and we forgot Antarctica until we were eating it.
This week we started our studies of countries. We are studying the United States for 2 weeks. Since we spent the entire year studying the United States this is kind of a review. We are working hard at learning the names of all fifty states and other major landmarks, such as the Mississippi River, Mountain Ranges, Gulf of Mexico, Great Lakes, etc. We are also looking at the animals in the United States.
In Science we are studying Forests. We learned the different layers of the forests (emergent, canopy, understory, shrub, herb, floor) and which animals live where. No science experiment this week but we are doing a nature walk tomorrow and will be starting our leaf collection.
We were supposed to make a cake the first week and frost it blue for the oceans and use green frosting to make the continents. We skipped this project as Emma is the only one in the house that will eat cake. And yes she may eat all of it, but I don't think it would be great idea. So this week I came up with the idea of making blue jello and putting it in a large bar pan. We than use whipped cream in a can to make the continents and sprinkled them with green sugar. Now the shapes weren't very accurate - pretty hard to do with whipped cream in a can and we forgot Antarctica until we were eating it.
We are doing a couple of Native American crafts tomorrow (sand art). So hopefully I can post some more pictures of that.
For reading we are reading the Magic Treehouse book called Mummies in the Morning. There are a lot of great activities on the Internet for these books which is one of the reason I chose this series. The girls like word searches and crossword puzzles.
Last week we got a little behind (more my issues than the girls). So we had a rough day or two catching up. But yesterday and today were two of the best school days we have ever had! I am very thankful for this. The curriculum is fun and even I am learning things, especially in science.
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