Today our plan is fairly basic.
Start our study on the human body and go to the Western Fair this afternoon. We go to the fair every year simply because it's a family thing to do. Hubby has gone for years, and so therefore do we. :)
It's a good place to go educationally speaking as well as they have farm exhibits, various booths, and some hands on events as well. We generally go two days, once for us, once for the boy as bounce back tickets are inexpensive. :)
Start our study on the human body and go to the Western Fair this afternoon. We go to the fair every year simply because it's a family thing to do. Hubby has gone for years, and so therefore do we. :)
It's a good place to go educationally speaking as well as they have farm exhibits, various booths, and some hands on events as well. We generally go two days, once for us, once for the boy as bounce back tickets are inexpensive. :)
Our Reading
We read the paper over our waffle breakfast. Good to do this. I was never taught as a child to think about what I read in the paper, and even though the lad is only seven years old, I do want him to start thinking a bit. :) We also do our devotions after breakfast. Currently we are using Keys for Kids. They will send you a one year subscription for free or you can use it on-line.
we read through the next two labours of Hercules. The two labours were the man eating horses and the bull that came out of the sea.
World history taught us about what the lad calls the "indians". I'm not sure where he gets that from, but it was about the chinese soldiers and how they protected themselves. They wore armour made up on numerous metal plates and under that wore a silk shirt which helped to protect them from arrows.
The Three Wishes. This story gave us a chance to talk about being careful what you wish for, and if you did have three wishes, what would they be?
Today we learned about the southern red-back vole. These critters are a major food source for many animals and they tend to live less than one year, but the females can have several litters of 8 in one year (should they survive) and they often live in family units.
We also read about the rough-backed newt. This newt tends to live in the water or in damp places. It excretes a poison from it's skin which kills most predators, except for some snakes which are immune to the poison.
We also read about the rough-backed newt. This newt tends to live in the water or in damp places. It excretes a poison from it's skin which kills most predators, except for some snakes which are immune to the poison.
The Human Body
We started off our exploration of the human body by doing full sized outlines of our body. The lads' and mine. We had hoped to get Dad to do it as well but he showed no inclination to do so.
We hung them up on bedroom doors.
Throughout the year we'll be adding body parts to them. We'll be using this book
We hung them up on bedroom doors.
Throughout the year we'll be adding body parts to them. We'll be using this book
as our template for doing this copy, and colour aspect of learning. :)
We also took our measurements so that we can watch how we grow and change throughout the year. :)
We also took our measurements so that we can watch how we grow and change throughout the year. :)
Today we did the brain. :) we read about it, and coloured a picture, we'll look at it a bit more tomorrow I'm hoping. Daddy sidetracked us with the movie the Adventures of TinTin so we needed to revamp our schooling life a bit.
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