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Emily: Who is Galileo Galilei? Research #1

1. Research sites and books for information on this person.

2. Collect and record the information.

3. Determine his contribution to and/or influence in history.

4. Use the writing process to create a biography of his life and why

the reader should want to learn about him.

5. Finish with an art project that highlights something he is associated

with; telescopes, gravity(leaning tower of pisa), etc...

Grant: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

Vocabulary Study, Story Sequence of Events, Comprehension Questions (Bloom's Taxonomy), Writing, Art Project

Week #2

history

science

diagram the sentence

bible verse

memory work

types of sentences; parts of speech




reading

math

spelling

Origami 2

Emily & Grant's Origami Creationsflapping birds

star boxes

fox family

These summer days are so relaxed. The kids spent the morning working on more origami for their friends. I am glad they have found something to do with their hands. They made a fox family, flapping birds, star boxes and bombs away boxes. The special origami paper we found make them very special!

Origami

ORIGAMI

We visited our local library this week and picked up many new books. Emily is very interested in origami. She checked out The Usborne Book of Origami by Eileen O'Brien and Kate Needham. I now have little paper frogs and paper boxes and windmills all around the house. She has been practicing with the white and different colored construction paper we have in the house. She is getting so good I think I need to go find some origami paper at the local craft store. She did not make the one pictured above but hers looks just like it, only white. I will try to post some pictures soon. In addition to reading for the summer reading program at the library, origami will be a good way for her to spend some of her free time. Maybe she can teach me how to make a bird.

INVERTEBRATES: Arthropods; INSECTS

It is the first day of June and we are still learning, for fun! We have been talking about Invertebrates(no backbone). We covered Vertebrates(with backbone) several months ago. Our first group of Invertebrates is Arthropods(jointed foot). The first group of Arthropods we are studying is Insects. Emily and Grant learned that insects have a head, thorax and abdomen. They have six legs, simple and compound eyes, a pair of antennae on their heads and many have one or two pairs of wings. Emily and Grant painted styrofoam balls, joined them with toothpicks and created legs and antennae with pipe cleaners. Grant made an ant and Emily made a bee.

Todd found a $3.00 microscope with slides and many other "cool" features at a yardsale. The kids have been examining everything from pond water to grass, drops of blood and even dead ants. We are having fun!