Aly's first time snowboarding...
Andrew & Abi share the chair up the mountain...
Brrrrr!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
~Thanksgiving Resources~
I have compiled a list of resources for studying the Pilgrims, Plimoth Plantation, The Mayflower & the 'first' Thanksgiving. My girls are early elementary age, but these resources could be used for older students as well. We will revisit this unit study annually. For now, we are having a ball with it. We started this unit mid-November and will spend many enjoyable hours on these books & projects. Please share your favorites that I have (or have not) listed. Thank you, and...
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Here are a few pics from Thanksgiving season, 2010, when my girls were ages 6 & 7....
Hands-On Activities:
Free Internet Resources:
Books
Thankfully I already own these resources as part of our American History program.
Story Of The World 3 by Susan Wise Bauer: Ch. 6, New Colonies in the New World
Veritas Press Cards #8 ‘The Mayflower Lands & Plymoth, 1620’and #9, ‘Pilgrims Build Plymoth Colony, 1621’
History Of Us, by Joy Hakim, Book 2, ch 13 – 15
What Your Second Grader Needs To Know, page 126
The Complete Book of United States History, page 63-66, Squanto Helps The Pilgrims
BJU Heritage Studies 3, ch. 4, The New England Colonies
The Pilgrims Of Plimoth by Marcia Sewall
The Story Of The First Thanksgiving by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese
Audio/Video:
Audio version of the book Landing Of The Pilgrims
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, Mayflower Voyagers
Scholastic Plimoth Plantation Live Video-cast
Hymns:
Thanksgiving Medly on youtube
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come,
For the Beauty of The Earth
For the purpose of self-education, I read these:
America’s Providential History, ch. 5, 6, 7
Friday, November 11, 2011
Our Pilgrimage To Plymouth, Mass....
Thanksgiving season seemed an appropriate time to share a few memories from our spring break trip to Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Plimoth Plantation
(Yes, this is the correct spelling of Plimoth.)
Wampanoag Village
On board The Mayflower II...
Below deck where the passengers lived and slept...
What a fabulous trip! Can't wait to go back!
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
'Classical Conversations' Today
Aly presented her artwork to her class...
Abi's class is playing Twinkle, Twinkle on their tin whistles...
They sound awesome!
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Homemade Blood Model
We studied blood this week as part of our human anatomy unit.
The girls made a blood model out of corn syrup, red hot candies, lentils & white lima beans.
Plasma: Corn Syrup
Red Blood Cells: Red hots
Platelets: Lentils
White Blood Cells: White Lima Beans
Pour & Stir...
They are extremely proud of their concoction.
They labeled the main parts of blood below.
We watched Schoolhouse Rock:
"Do The Circulation"
Next week....The Brain!
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