This week we are starting an exciting new section in our science studies. We are studying plant anatomy and how plants grow. We've read three books. One book, What's Alive? by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, talked about what determines whether something is alive or not alive. Afterwards Wes spent time outside identifying 6 living and 6 non-living things. He drew pictures of them on individual cards and colored and labeled them. Then he turned this collection into a poster with one half representing the Alive and the other the Not Alive things.
Going backwards, we started the entire section by reading Oh Say Can You Seed which is part of The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library collection. It's actually full of information as well as beloved characters. Finally, today Wes read A Tree Is a Plant by Clyde Robert Bulla. This goes into detail about the life cycle of an apple tree. We also started our big Bean Sprout Project.
We have three different kinds of beans started, mung, broccoli and lentil. Wes picked the beans. We tried to pick three that looked different as seeds. Wes is keeping logs of all our our scientific data and as the week goes on, we will be learning more about these kinds of seeds in particular as well as charting and comparing their individual progress.
Going backwards, we started the entire section by reading Oh Say Can You Seed which is part of The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library collection. It's actually full of information as well as beloved characters. Finally, today Wes read A Tree Is a Plant by Clyde Robert Bulla. This goes into detail about the life cycle of an apple tree. We also started our big Bean Sprout Project.
We have three different kinds of beans started, mung, broccoli and lentil. Wes picked the beans. We tried to pick three that looked different as seeds. Wes is keeping logs of all our our scientific data and as the week goes on, we will be learning more about these kinds of seeds in particular as well as charting and comparing their individual progress.
We are in a math transition right now. We will be starting the study of weights and measures.
I'm going to try to push on through to the end of the cursive alphabet this week and then we'll move on to writing words.
In language arts, we are beginning to study verbs. I plan to spend a fair amount of time with this part of speech and really grow Westen's understanding of verb forms.
Our Piano lesson went well today. We are learning how to approach the process better. I'm a little rusty as a music teacher.
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