Week Seven Notes

Monday, October 17

SSR - chapter books for older children, early readers for younger



Free Play - marble maze, wooden animals, play kitchen foods, dollhouse furniture, fairy peg dolls, caravan, Grapat mandala kits, wooden monkey bowling, fort building with giant cardboard box

Colonial America Activities - playing with a handmade wooden top (which I made in my woodworking class), writing with a slate and slate pencil, writing with a quill pen and homemade black walnut ink (which my colleage Ms. Denise made and donated to our school), fastening our fancy letters with sealing wax and a brass seal




Snack - read Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen



Lunch / Read Aloud - chap 1 & 2 of The Witch Who Saved Halloween by Marian Place



Projects of Personal Interest - Alchemy, Creative Writing, How to Solve a Rubik's Cube (each of these has its own post with notes)

Tuesday, October 18

SSR

Morning Work Time - Plastic Utensils continue with PPI, Pterodactyls add Ben Franklin and Carl von Linné to Famous Inventors MLB



building the Periodic Table of the Elements on the living room floor using this amazing deck of cards; it was a perfect tie in to a uranium glass marble that a student brought in as well as the Alchemy block!

Colonial America Activities - play marbles (PDF), play checkers (PDF)

Board Game Tuesday - Santa Cookie Elf Candy Snowman and Ready, Set, Draw! (both from my collection of games in ALL CAPS)



Inventors - Samuel Morse and Louis Braille

Wednesday, October 19

Morning Work Time - Plastic Utensils continue with PPI, Pterodactyls add Samuel Morse and Louis Braille to Famous Inventors MLB



Read Aloud - chap 3 & 4 of The Witch Who Saved Halloween at snack and chap 5 & 6 at lunch

begin Haunted Houses of Speech

review Math Gnomes (+, -, x, ÷)

Foods of the World Special Guest - Derek Ervin from Glacier's End came in to teach us how to make Shagbark Hickory Syrup

"Glacier's End growing a new take on old favorites" article

Colonial America Activities - spin carded wool fibers into yarn with a drop spindle (we prefer the bottom whorl), polish sterling silver

Inventors - read Ada's Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World's First Computer Programmer by Fiona Robinson



Science Club - detailed notes are on my Meteorology page (bottom)

Thursday, October 20

Morning Work Time - Plastic Utensils continue with PPI, Pterodactyls add Ada Lovelace to Famous Inventors MLB



Inventors - read Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor by Emily Arnold McCully



Snack Story / Art History Discussion - Barbara Hepworth (see the notes from week of Oct 17)



Read Aloud - chap 7 & 8 of The Witch Who Saved Halloween

continue to work on Haunted Houses of Speech

Ghostie Numbers - read The Devoted Friend by Oscar Wilde



We used the story to talk about the idea of equal and unequal (the handles of the wheelbarrow representing the equals sign). The wheelbarrow that poor Hans was promised does not at all equal all of the things he was being asked to do in return! Then I used this as a transition into Ghostie Numbers for the younger children.

The photos to go with this week are here.

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