Saturday, September 24, 2022

Week Three Notes

We started the year in our Outdoor Classroom! Here are some week 3 notes:

Monday, Sep 19


Tuesday, Sep 20 - 8 butterflies

    Farm Day for the Pterodactyls

    Butterflies - Zac and I woke to 5 butterflies and then 3 more came out in the morning (one of which the class got to observe eclosing)

    Nature Sketches of Monarchs, facts from An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly by Laurence Pringle, release butterflies

    Art - design and work on collaborative mobile inspired by the life cycle of the butterfly (using wire, tape, scissors, and cardstock)

    Nature Study - read goldenrod information in Walking the World in Wonder: A Children's Herbal by Ellen Evert Hopman, harvest goldenrod blossoms for the Apothecary presentation and dry some (hang in bundles, dry on a cookie sheet using the oven pilot light)

    Recipe - use fresh blossoms to make Foraged Goldenrod Tea recipe

    Number Bases - read Weslandia by Paul Fleischman at lunch time and introduce binary, octal, hexadecimal, and the Multi-Base Bead Frame


Wednesday, Sep 21 - 5 butterflies

    Outdoor Play Time

    Independent Work Time

    Art - continue to work on the butterfly mobile

    Poetry - read Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word by Bob Raczka at snack time

    each of these short poems is formed using only the letters which are found in the poem's title, so they are perfect for penmanship practice!

    a 10 year old student even came up with her own

      Poetry

      try
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      top
      Poe


    Read Aloud - The Alphabet, chapters 12-13 (J, uppercase K)

    Handwork - continue Handwork projects (finger knitting, knitting, counted cross-stitch), experiment with Plant Dyeing by using fresh goldenrod blossoms, cotton yarn, wool yarn, and the sunjar method

    Indoor Play Time including Ocean Labyrinth, Bug Bingo, Ocean Bingo, Pattern Play, Frog Wobble, Enchanted Forest, and Ravine

    Lowercase Letters - review letters in the < u > emblem, learn letters in the < n > emblem (n, m, r, k, h, b, p), read "King John's Christmas" from The World of Christopher Robin by A.A. Milne

    Map Skills - do Orienteering Compass Exercise 2: Get Your Bearings (PDF, pp.10-11) using our new lovely vintage circular protractors


Science Club


Thursday, Sep 22

    Nature Study - read the "The Lion Hunt" chapter, pages 187-194, in The Burgess Book of Nature Lore: Adventures of Tommy, Sue and Sammy with Their Friends of Meadow, Pool, and Forest by Thornton W. Burgess

    look at the antlion life cycle (PDF) and compare it to other insect life cycles we have studied

    walk around the house and check in the dry sandy soil under the eaves for antlion pits, sieve the soil carefully to look for antlions

    Living History Day - costume planning (see Colonial Costumes post)

    Independent Work Time

    Art - make sculptures from Found Objects (Calder-inspired, using an array of colored wire plus items from our Beautiful Stuff boxes)

    Autumnal Equinox - read Fall Mixed Up by Bob Raczka at snack time

    Read Aloud - The Alphabet, chapters 14-15 (lowercase K, L)

    Lowercase Letters - copy and illustrate two poems from Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word (rain, ladybug)

    Map Skills - discuss the Equinox in more detail, do "Length of the Rays of the Sun" and "Climate Zones" lessons from Waseca Biomes

    these blackline masters are available for free; visit A-Z PDF Library, choose "An Introduction to Biomes with Curriculum" and select "Masters" under the Elementary option, then print pages 4 and 5


Friday, Sep 23 - 1 butterfly

1 chrysalis remaining


Saturday, Sep 24 - 1 butterfly


The photos to go with this week are here.

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