To learn more about stars, we headed to the Planetarium at a local university.
In front of the Planetarium
Planetarium Dome
The girls enjoyed leaning back in the seats, while gazing at the stars above us! We learned a lot from the presentation about the stars and planets in our universe.
While there, we watched "One World, One Sky", a short planetarium show about Sesame Street's Big Bird and Elmo as they explore the night sky
with Hu Hu Zhu, a Muppet from Zhima Jie, the Chinese co-production of
Sesame Street. Together, they take an imaginary trip from Sesame Street
to the moon, where they discover how different it is from Earth.
Before learning about the Days of Creation, we spent some time discussing the meaning of "time". It was a difficult concept for the girls to understand that long ago there was no such thing as time, no night and no day.
It was even more difficult for them to comprehend that there was "nothing'...no sun, no moon, no mountains, no animals, no people....only God.
They were completely impressed that God created everything through his spoken word!
It didn't take long for them to ponder the question,"Who made God?"
Day 1: Creation of Light
They were given strips of black and yellow construction paper to divide darkness and light.
The girls will be keeping a Bible Timeline Notebook to go along with their Mystery of History and Story of the World curricula this year. They created a coffee filter Earth craft for their title page of their notebook.
First, they drew the continents with a marker, then using water colors, they painted the continents.
Followed by painting the oceans.
After the coffee filter dried, they glued their Earth onto the cardstock.
First Language Lessons, Level 1, is a complete grammar text that uses copywork, narration, picture
study, and other classical techniques to develop the student's language
ability. Izzie will be completing 3 lessons per week.
I'm using the printable poems from Homeschool Creations, as well as, having Izzie illustrate the poems!
First Language Lessons, Level 1, is a complete grammar text that uses copywork, narration, picture
study, and other classical techniques to develop the student's language
ability. Izzie will be completing 3 lessons per week.
Izzie has completed the first 6 lessons and is really enjoying this classical style of learning!
Lesson 1: Definition of a noun and introduction of common nouns.
Lesson 1: Extra Practice
I created this simple handout for extra practice. I'm no longer uploading my handouts to Scribd since they've started charging; however, this handout did not properly upload to Google Docs...the text boxes are missing and it's a little crowded. It's completable, but not identical to the one above. If you would like an original copy, feel free to e-mail me.
Lesson 1: Extra Practice
Lesson 2: Introduction to poem memorization--The Caterpillar.
Since we'll be practicing this poem for several lessons, I wanted Izzie to be able to use her own illustrations to help her remember the poem. Here's a copy of the poem.
Izzie's illustration of poem.
Izzie had the poem memorized in no time!
Lesson 3: Review definition of noun, common nouns, and The Caterpillar poem.
Izzie drew a picture of our family and labeled it with common nouns.
Lesson 4: Introduction of Proper Nouns.
I created another simple handout for extra practice of Proper Nouns.
Lesson 4: Extra Practice
I had Izzie highlight each capital letter to reinforce that proper nouns begin with capital letters.
Lesson 5: Introduction of story narration--The Rabbit and the Turtle.
I'm behind keeping up the posts for Storytime From A to Z, though, I'll be posting everything that we did in January and February, soon! So, here's to catching up!
The girls had fun water painting their Hermit Crab and decorating his shell with tissue paper, glitter beads, and stickers!
After seeing Izzie's finished Hermit at home, Mac insisted that she wanted to create one too! I helped her color, while she was busy using her fine motor skills with tissue paper!
