copying and illustrating poems has become a favorite Penmanship practice
our stories for X and V
our basket of treasures (Grimm's Wooden Forest Set)
hiding a treasure, then drawing a map of its location for a friend
hmmm... where is that treasure?
our finished butterfly mobile
the lithograph "Balloons" by Alexander Calder
on our way to the art museum, we discover this ginkgo tree with fruit on it!
I pull out my box of rocks from grade 1 Land of Numeria...
to create a collection of Alphabet Rocks!
after drawing the uppercase letters on the sidewalk with chalk, we match the Alphabet Rocks to the chalk letters
colonial professions research continues
our goldenrod dye jar (which actually ended up giving no color)
I repurpose the frame from our broken folding table by covering it with cheesecloth
now I have a lovely and airy drying table for when we wash raw wool as part of our Living History experience
setting up the Orienteering Course
the copper plant labels are beautiful but a little too subtle
the children asked me to make the signs more noticeable next time we do this activity
individual portions of tiny seashells
tracing your name with your finger on the paper first helps you figure out how big to make the letters so that it will all fit
they enjoyed the challenge of making the letters by squeezing out liquid glue
these came out really well and were a great way to practice the capitalization rules as well as our lowercase letters
knitting
braiding
sewing
the "Sandpipers" poem really went so beautifully with this activity!
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems edited by Paul Janeczko, p.19
the colored portions are the stitches from when she was in first grade
the black line (below) shows off the stitches from today
measuring the sections on the Golden Mat so we can use the same measurements for our Octal Mat (which will be dark brown felt)
practicing multiplication on the Golden Mat (in fact, they were using it to calculate the exponents of 8)
everyone was interested in this lesson, so it ended up being a group project
Science Club
the red balloon was the warm water; the blue balloon was the cold water
both bottles have the same amount of water and Alka-Seltzer in them
which temperature water held in the CO2 and was a better carbon sink?
we decide to make the Binary Mat first, since that project is a bit simpler
he had so much fun calculating the exponents, he just kept going!
our final Alexander Calder activity is a look at his gouache paintings
getting out the bricks for the Dragon Party!
these bags of bricks live in my upper attic and only come out once a year
the bricks are carefully transported to the building site
the castle wall serves as the backdrop to our retelling of the story
it is a great collaborative project
the tale begins...
the knight falls at the end of day 1
(the sparkly scarf is the stream of silvery healing water)
our cheerful narrators
the dragon cape is a favorite costume
this dragon is particularly fierce
townspeople cowering behind the ruined Brass Tower
they have so much fun, they just want to act it out over and over
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