Wordless Wednesday: Beautiful Boots

 

MFW 1st Grade- Week #8

Well this week was great.  We went to the pumpkin patch with some cousins and Papa, followed by eating yummy fair junk food and seeing the animals.  Big Ladybug also got to spend one whole day at the local fair watching her cousins show their pigs and riding rides!  Not to mention we had a great week with school!

Bible:  Memory verse this week:

The Lord detests lying lips, but delights in men who are truthful.  ~Proverbs 12:22

She began the Old Testament timeline this week, which we set up in the kitchen.  Every week we will be adding to it as we study the Old Testament Bible stories. 

This is the beginning of the timeline.  The OT was originally written in Hebrew.  This is the first verse of the Bible and it says, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

 

 

                  

Science:  We studied the ocean, waves, and the beach this week.

We had some fun with our experiments.  I found the Awesome Ocean Science book at the library and it is great.  The first experiment was looking at the beach shore and how the ocean can reshape it.  We saw how waves move up the beach and the undertow pulls the sand back out to the ocean.  The neighbor loves joining in on our science activities!

 

                 

 

Once we were finished, Big Ladybug couldn’t resist running her toes through the sand :)

 

 

Our other experiment was looking at what happens when fresh river water flows into the salty ocean.  The girls made salt water and put in the pop bottle on the right.  Then they put blue food coloring in the fresh water and slowly squirted it into the salt water.   The fresh water first forms a distinct layer on top of the salty water, until slowly they mix together.

    

                  

I  try to incorporate art into our school day every Friday.  Whether it is something out of her I Can Do All Things art book, or a special project.  I found this really great art book at the library and I absolutely LOVE it!  I researched this book a little more and found that it is a series of art crafting books, so we will definitely be using these throughout our school year.  You can check them out on Amazon.com just click here.

 

                                         Big Ladybugs beautiful ocean scene.

Did you know?? A mouthful of seawater may contain millions of bacterial cells, hundreds of thousands of phytoplankton (the plants of the sea) and tens of thousands of zooplankton (tiny animals found near the surface). 

 Yummy…..how much have you swallowed swimming on vacation?

    

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Apples- OHC Autumn 2010

I have been wanting to try out the Outdoor Hour Challenge from Handbook of a Nature Study and we finally got the chance.   I ordered the book and it is a lot thicker than I expected, but full of some good stuff! 

We started with the Apple study, but I do intend to go back and complete the previous challenges  at some point this fall.   Big Ladybug LOVES apples so she was really excited about this! 

We read the Handbook of Nature Study and the book How Do Apples Grow?  We then compared a Honeycrisp and Golden Delicious.   Check out the 2 normal size apples next to the giant apple we found at the store.  (It still tasted yummy!)

Here are the notebook pages we completed after observing the apples.  Big Ladybug loves to draw, so she enjoyed this.  She kind of lost her enthusiasm while completing the Venn Diagram, but she is only 6, and made it through.

  

She perked right back up when it was time to eat them and keeps begging me to make apple pie! 

       

MFW 1st Grade- Week #7

Wow, what a busy week we had!  Wednesday we took a family field trip to the zoo, (I will share these pictures on another post soon) and Thursday we went to Slate Run Living Farm with our Little House in the Big Woods co-op class.  It was a lot of fun seeing all the animals and how they lived during that time period.   We had a great week, but now we have to catch up on some school work over the weekend…uugh.

                                          (Fun photos of our visit to Slate Run)

 Bible:  This weeks memory verse:

Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.  ~Proverbs 12:18

We drew our Bible Lands Map to refer to in future lessons, when studying Bible stories.   Big Ladybug liked the story that went along with drawing this, especially about the big water bug with 2 large antennae, can you see where that is?

  

We also introduced the globe, or in our case an inflatable globe ball….whatever works right?

              

Science:  This week we studied ‘rivers’.   We read books on rivers and talked about how they start, the different things that live in a river, and what they are used for.  We also watched the DK Eyewitness DVD Pond & River.

 

Our science experiment was filtering muddy water with sand and rocks.   I cut a paper carton and poked holes in the bottom.  The girls went out to gather some rocks, and Big Ladybug enjoyed making the muddy water.

I followed the directions in the MFW teachers manual, and my water filter failed!  Muddy water went in, and muddy water came out!  So we called Daddy to the rescue!  He changed what the instructions said to do and he put the sand on the bottom, a piece of an old t-shirt in the middle, and the rocks on top.   His filter worked great!

               

             

So while this was taking place, our Little Ladybug decided to make her own little sand experiment.  Oh… the joys of having a 2-year-old!

                   

Did you know???  If all the world's water were fit into a gallon jug, the fresh water available for us to use would equal only about one tablespoon.

 

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Wordless Wednesday: Precious Little Ones

 

MFW 1st Grade- Week #6

 

It is hard to believe we have been schooling for 6 weeks!  We are enjoying ourselves very much!  (As you can see, sometimes, some of us more than others :)

 

Bible:  This weeks memory verse:

A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control. ~Proverbs 29:11

Big Ladybug has been memorizing the order of the books in the Old Testament.  She already has the first 20 down!  She has really impressed me with her ability to memorize so quickly.

Science:  This week we looked at ‘thunder and lightening’.  We read books about how thunder and lightening are produced and what to do to stay safe in a storm.  To sum it all up in one sentence, it all has to do with static electricity in the atmosphere.  So to explore static electricity we did some experiments at home.

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To test for static electricity we stuck a paper clip in the middle of a play dough ball.   We gathered plastic, foil, paper, and a balloon; and rubbed them with wool, a wool hat to be exact. We then put them close to the paper clip (without touching) to see if they would produce static discharge.  

The results….it was positive with the balloon and plastic, but not so much with the foil and paper.

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We also wanted to make some thunder, so we blew up some balloons different sizes and sent Big Ladybug after them with a straight pin.  She was outside because we had 2 sleeping babies…..can you blame me?  It was a little wet and chilly, but she survived.  She really enjoyed herself and would have popped the whole bag if we let her! 

The results….the larger balloons were louder than the smaller ones, but they all were fun to pop!

 

 

Did you know???   Wow… lightening is so interesting that I really had a hard time narrowing down to just 1 great fact, so you get a few this week!

1. The average length of a single lightening bolt is 2-3 miles and travels up to 60,000 miles per second!
2. A single lightening bolt travels through twisted paths in the air that can be as wide as one of your fingers or between 6-10 miles!
3. The temperature of a typical lightening bolt can reach 50,000 F degrees- that is 5 times greater that the temperature of the surface of the Sun!

Also,did you know???  You can hear thunder from about 12 miles from the starting point.