Day 3: Continued

For History: the boys watched a video about the first moon landing and the first space shuttle launch. After we watched the video, Lincoln started to pretend that his airplane was a "space ship" It was so cute. He could count down and then say BLAST OFF!!


The boys also played "Ring around the Rocket ship" (Ring around the rosie)



For science: the boys chose what planet they wanted to make out of paper mache'. I am so glad I was making dinner at the time and I volunteered Ben to help them with this project. They really got into this project. We will be finishing them up next week and I will have the finished product up.

Day 3: Continued

Our shape of the day was an Oval. Greyson used our Kid Pix program (which we got free in a Chik-fil-a meal) and make a picture out of ovals.

























For math: Ben made a program on the computer
where the planets rotated around the sun. Greyson had to time each of planets and record his time on his sheet.

Sunday January 10, 2010 Day 3:Space Unit

Well, first we did have school on Sunday. That is one of the benefits to homeschooling. We need to get 3 days a week in and it is nice to use the weekends and for Ben to see what the boys are doing.

Greyson started reading book #2 in his series. It focuses on the words is and it. He did a terrific job reading this book for the first time.

















We also read the book The Planets. This book had great info about the planets. What planets are made out of rock and what planets are made out of gas.

We played a cute game called Hot Planet. It was just like hot potato and we sang Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star for the music. They loved it.








Then Greyson had to do his tracing. He is getting better.

Space Unit : Day two

Greyson and Lincoln made their own universe picture using Black (color of the week) paper and using stars (shape of the day) stamps. Of course they had to use lots of glitter to make everything shiny!!












We read Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews. This went along with our color and the boys had fun counting all the dots
for math.

















Greyson then had to do a counting worksheet. He didn't quite understand what to do the first time around, but after explaining it again he corrected it all by himself.














During Science, we talked more about gases. Each of the boys put ice into a pan and watched the ice turn to liquid and then into a gas. Great experiment to show what a gas is.

Space Unit : Day two

Greyson stated reading his site word book, which he has now mastered. He can recognize the words and & a. He is very excited about starting to read!!










I love this series. It is the I'm Reading Now! series and Greyson is in the re-reader level.









We read the book Me and my place in Space by Joan Sweeney. This book gave a lot of information on the solar system . Very simple, but filled with information that a 4 year old will understand.









Grey has to practice tracing words everyday and today was more space words.

Our shape of the day was a star and Greyson tried for the first time to draw one. (It was much harder to teach than I though, so if anyone has any good suggestions that would be great) We'll keep working on it. Our color of the day was black for outer space.
For math and Science, we used our Solar System poster. Greyson had to label the planets 1-8 and the we discussed how half of the planets are made out of gas and the other half are made out of solids. Greyson had to categorize planets into solids and gases.
The boys were introduced to Galileo during history. They learned how he invented the first telescope and discovered the ring around Saturn.

Space unit: Day One

We started out by reading Sydney's Star by Peter H. Reynolds. It was a a cute book about a mouse named Sydney who was an inventor. She invented a remote control star that ended up doing a lot of good. The boys then made their own shiny stars like Sydney's.