Jan
Heart of Dakota- BLHFHG Unit 13
Another fun and busy week of homeschooling has ended. This is actually a review of what we did 3 weeks ago. I have been so tired that I just haven’t been doing much blogging. But here is a quick roundup of what we did:
History/Geography:
We learned more about the Pilgrims and we talked about what they did during the first Thanksgiving. We played some of the games that the kids played that first Thanksgiving. Hailey stood on a line and then jumped as far as she could. We marked it with tape and then she jumped again, trying to beat her previous spot.
I had her measure how much further she jumped each time.
We also set up a box and then Hailey took a pair of socks and tried to throw them into the box. Needless to say, the games that the kids played at the first Thanksgiving are much different from what we do now.
Hailey did a little mapping activity and had to tell me which direction she would need to go to get from one place to another.
Science:
In science our focus was on penguins. We have learned so much about them!
We also did this simple science activity. We cut out 2 leaves on paper towels and then Hailey drew the veins onto the leaves. We put one of the leaves in a cup without water and one in a cup with water and watched the water spread through the veins- it was a great illustration of how the water travels to the ends of the leaves.
Language Arts:
Hailey has been busy reading all about nature in her new emerging reader.
We added to Hailey’s Reading Notebook- she added a page about story structure and we discussed how stories have a beginning, middle and an end.
Hailey made this super cute book about 2014 that I found on Teacher’s Pay Teachers, but I can’t find it now to link to it.
The book is full of pages all about 2014, and Hailey had a great time working on it!
I am really hoping to start feeling better in the next few weeks and I’ll be back to my usual posting schedule just as soon as I feel up to it!
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Hi! I’m curious about the story structure activity. Was that something from your curriculum or something else you found online? We could really use that in our lessons! 🙂
Andrea- I got the story structure activity from here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/2nd-Grade-Reading-Interactive-Notebook-aligned-with-the-Common-Core-765272
Hope that helps!