Chipette:
This week besides our usual core subjects of math,
grammar, spelling, and writing, Chipette started working on her mythical creatures
bestiary. Her first entry was about griffins. Here is the information page
telling where griffins are found, their diet, and special powers associated
with them.
Entry number one is completed.
Chipette colored in her first countries on the
world map that we ordered from Beautiful Feet for their Geography Through
Literature course.
I hesitated on ordering these maps, but I am so
glad that I did. They are a wonderful size and a great thickness. This course
is going to be wonderful! Chipette loves it already.
Since our caterpillar changed into a moth a couple
of weeks ago, we decided to try another animal and watch it change. A wonderful
lady from our church brought over a container full of tadpoles.
Now we just have to see if we can keep them alive
so they turn into frogs. I have no idea how to do this one, so if anyone has
any advice let me know!
Magpie:
This week Magpie made a lighthouse out of
lowercase “l”. We used our ocean stamps so she could stamp the fish out in the
water.
Here is her finished product which she did NOT
want me to take a picture of for some reason.
I love her expression!
We are continuing to work through our Explode the
Code Primer books. Magpie loves workbooks and had amazing fine motor skills
from a very, very young age, but even Explode the Code gets a little writing
intensive for her, so I thought we could use our letter stamps to fill out some
of the workbook pages.
It works great and keeps little hands from getting
too tired. Plus, getting to stamp anything makes it more fun! I found the foam
alphabet stamps in the arts and crafts section of our local Wal-mart.
Magpie also finished up our first literature study
using the book, Bears by Ruth Krauss.
We acted out parts of the book including the jumping in squares.
Finally, Magpie had to place picture cards from
the story in order the way they happened in the story.
She loves learning this way!
Magpie studied the return of the Ark of
the Covenant to Jerusalem this week in Little Hands to Heaven. She made her own
version of the Ark, and she and Monkey carried it back into Jerusalem (the
dining room) via our backyard.
And speaking of Monkey…
Monkey:
He found his sock monkey hat that Aunt Fluffy
bought him last Christmas and of course, he had to “monkey” around in it!
He’s such a ham!!!
Loving animals and loving our crazy life in the
tree house,
Love the idea of stamping in ETC, thank you!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! I had them so I thought, why not? She loves it!
DeleteLooks like a great week!
ReplyDeleteWe raised tadpoles this summer. Out of three, one died pretty quickly, one never grew and changed before it just disappeared, and one made it. We used water from a nearby lake. If you can't get natural water, use distilled or dechlorinate the water at the very least. You can cook spinach and feed them that. If you get lake water, there's a good chance it will come with tadpole food naturally. Ours loved the duck weed in our water. Make sure you have some "land" (we used aquarium rock we had) coming out of the water so the tadpoles can get out when it is time. Once they are frogs, feed them wingless gnats if they are tiny frogs or flies/crickets if larger. Have fun!
Thanks for the help with our tads. So far, so good. They are almost all alive at this point.
DeleteMy 4 year old used stamps for ETC too!
ReplyDeleteGreat minds think alike!
DeleteWe fed our tadpole algae tablets that you can buy at walmart or a pet store. I also read on the internet it is better to freeze the spinach leaves and then break them up and sprinkle on the water. When you freeze the spinach you don't loose any of the vitamins and nutrients. We used both and our tadpole turned into a little bull frog. The girls loved it!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your help with my food problem! It's working great so far.
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