1-13-10 continued

Our color of the day was orange. This book just happened to follow along using our site words it & is.













They used red and yellow finger paint and had to mix it together to make orange. We will be using this project for later in the week to make a sun.











They both love finger painting and it was a great way for them to see the colors blending together to make orange.

1-13-10 continued

For History, we started talking about the Astronauts and how they were able to live on a space ship. This book, I want to be an Astronaut, was a simple book but gave an explanation of what it is like to be an astronaut.












After we read our book, Greyson and Lincoln made Astronaut food (Chocolate pudding in a baggie)














Enjoying their dessert. Greyson kept saying they were pretending to be astronauts.











During Math, we started to discuss the phases of the moon and how the moon changes every night. It was fun looking back at what the moon looked like on our birthdays. We also watched a short video explaining how the moon changes.

Monday January 11, 2010

The boys didn't have school today, but I had found this great puzzle of the solar system in the bargain book section at Borders and thought it went great with our solar system unit. It's a huge floor puzzle and was easy enough for both of the boys to put together. They even learned some new facts after putting the puzzle together and reading the captions about each planet.

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.