CHRISTEPHI

We started our week with a bit of disciplinary action.  Do your kids do incomprehensible things such as wiping boogers on the wall?  I think having had to scrub them off, Little Guy has learned his lesson and won't be doing it again.  I hope! We continued with Level E in Spelling Power.  Miss M seems to grasp spelling concepts very quickly and constantly surprises me with the words she can spell. In history we learned about the Pilgrims and how Squanto taught them to plant corn and fish without hooks.  We read about how the Pilgrims built their homes and covered their windows with oiled parchment in the absence of glass. We made some oiled paper by rubbing olive oil into regular printer paper with a paper towel.  Little Guy enjoyed joining in on this activity.  We held up oiled paper and regular paper to the window to see which lets through more light. Oiled paper on the left, Regular paper on the right. We also tested the oil...

We are nearing the end of Calvert 1st grade, so we decided to knock out the last two chapters in our science book with a dedicated Science Week!  See also  Day 2 ,  Day 3 ,  Day 4 , and  Day 5 . Welcome to the first day of Science Week!  Today's topics are: Position and Force .  Position is the place where something is located.  We took turns hiding this little magician's assistant in the other room to demonstrate position and to practice using words to describe position.   Under , beside , right , left , near , and far are some of the words that help us tell someone the position of things. Next we learned that motion is a change in an object's position.  A ball's position can be changed by rolling it across the floor.  We raced bouncy balls and timed them to see how long it took them to travel two meters. Racing bouncy balls Any time we get to use the stop watch is a good day in Miss M's mind!  Force is th...