Week 17

Hard to believe we just finished up week 17 already!! We had a great day at CC today!

History: Once again we acted out as we sang the song.

English: We played a popcorn game. Each child held a picture of a person, place, thing, activity, or idea and when reciting the sentence and we got to their item they would pop up.

Math: We added a verse to our circle song. Again to the tune of the "The Wheels On The Bus" and it goes:
The circumference of a circle is
2 pi r
2 pi r
2 pi r
The circumference of a circle is
2 pi r
all around the circle.

Geo: Central Europe. We went on a trip with Austin the Anteater who lives in Austria. Austin was very hungry and went to Hungary thinking he could get something to eat but that didn't work out too well for him. So, he thought he would "check" right above him at the former Czechoslovakia. He still didn't find anything to eat (he is very picky). So, he went next door to Germany but he found the food there to be "germy" and wouldn't eat it. Finally, he smelt something from the south that smelled wonderful and sure enough in Switzerland he found swiss cheese that was just right!

Latin: Sang the song.

Time Line: We went over the hand motions.

Science: For Newton's 2nd law of motion we had hand gestures. Force, we pushed our arms out. Equals, we used our arms to make what looks like equals signs by putting then horizontal to each other. Mass, we put our arms out like something was big. Times, we crossed our arms like a times sign. Acceleration, we moved our arms like we were running.

Science lab: We discussed how mass effects the force by seeing the difference between two objects as they fell into flour. Even though the objects fell at the same speed, the heavier object left a much larger dent! We also raced some cars and noticed that by making a car heavier it made it travel farther (when it wasn't flipping over :) Also, we saw that since a soccer ball is heavier than a regular ball that when kicked with about the same amount of force the soccer ball went farther and faster.

Fine Arts: We discussed the artist Degas and once again the children proved their wonderful artistic abilities! This was a really cool project and I hope everyone really enjoyed that!

As for extras to help, I didn't have a ton this week. Don't miss the connection of "central Europe" and last weeks history when we learned about the "central powers". We have been finding nouns all over the place, but those idea nouns can be tricky since you can't "see" that.

Have fun with it this week and we look forward to seeing everyone again next week. Remember to let me know if you child plans to attempt the Memory Master challenge so we can plan accordingly.

Blessings,
Stacey