Home Schooling Summary for this week

This was an outdoors type week. We did a lot of fun science activities, crafts and play dates, but not much reading or math.
We had a bird theme one day this week. We watched youtube videos of eggs hatching, visited a nest out in one of our bushes, and pretended to be birds and each make a nest. Making the nest was a big hit. The key is to put the materials in different places around the house. Then have the "birds" build their bowls of playdough in the their "tree" and make them "fly" back and forth from the materials' locations to the place where they built their nests.

Bird Nest Craft

 Both this nest building and the dirt dissecting activity below come from a great book called Everything for Spring: a Complete Activity Book for Teachers of Young Children.

The kids also had a fun time "building" a tunnel/bridge for cars to shoot down.

Physics lesson for kiddos

Another day we had a seed theme.  We watched a funny youtube cartoon video about a seed growing into a tree, we visited trees, examined our seedlings in the milk jugs, and dissected a clod of dirt. The older kids were able to diagram the clod of dirt we dissected.  This activity was a bit messy, but very fun. There were a lot of squeals when we found tiny potato bugs, but no fear whatsoever about the big pink worm. 

Spring science activity

Dissecting dirt

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Reading	X	X	Vowel bingo	Gymnastics	X
Writing	X	X	X	X
Math	X	Mazes	X	X	Tea Party
Science	Nest building, Egg hatching	X	Dissecting & diagraming Dirt	X	X
History/Geography	X	X	Tree art, Examining buds	X	X