Tuesday of Week 5

We are having a great time this year studying countries and cultures in geography.  We are also doing a lot of fun things in science.  That was never one of my favorite subjects in school but now that I'm teaching it I am learning a LOT!  PLUS having fun with Rosetta Stone learning Spanish, and doing some fun things with art.  Of course we do a lot of other FUN things such as math, spelling, English, Handwriting, read aloud, and chores.  Here are some of the things we have done this week.

We learned about how worms move dirt around and are good for our soil.  They had fun putting them into this jar.  The experiment we did didn't turn out as well as we had hoped but they had fun messing with the worms anyways.  Just look at their faces.

We are doing an experiment to see where our beans will grow best.  We have some in the window where the sun can get to them, we have some in the refrigerator and we have some in a closet.  The ones in the window and the closet are winning so far.

If you look closely you can see a little sprout on this one.

We also buried a piece of ice in a plastic bag and put one on top of the soil to show why some animals burrow in the heat of the day.  The piece of ice in the ground didn't melt as fast as the one on top.  Maybe that's something we should try to beat the heat in the summer.... burrow.

Alyssa started a writing class for an hour and 15 minutes on Mondays.  This was her first day of "school".

Here is the bean seed a day later. A bigger sprout has grown.

Today we were like the Navajo Indians and made sand paintings.  The Navajo Indians would destroy their paintings after they were done but we are going to keep ours.  I kind of like them.

Here are their finished projects!

We have studied a little about the United States the 3rd and 4th weeks of school, and studied a whole year of it last year.  The 5th-this week-and the 6th week we are "in" Mexico.  We have passports that we have to use to "get into" the country.  We are reading about Cameron Townsend a missionary to Guatemala.  (We are learning about North America as well as the different countries in North America.)  So far it has been a great year.  We are halfway through our 5th week and only have had a few hiccups.  So glad that I get the opportunity to teach my kids!