M & M Adventures: Week 16

L. Arts: I did lesson ten in All About Reading. I used a die to select different words on my practice page. It was fun. I am practicing short vowel words with o in the middle.

Math: I did Dreambox lessons about identifying numbers in the teens on a ten frame.

Science: We learned about how scientists group animals by their characteristics. We learned about different groups in the animal kingdom and their defining characteristics. We went to the Butterfly Biosphere at Thanksgiving Point. We went in the bee room where we hadn’t gone before. It was cool because you could see the bees working and they had a plexiglass hive that we could look into.

History: We learned about the Phoenicians. We learned about how they invented a way to get the purple dye from ocean snails. It was really really stinky though. Purple day was three times more expensive than gold per pound. We also learned about how they had unique ways to make glass.

Music: We practiced baby steps on the staff. We sang our Five Fat Turkeys song. We practiced our hand signs and repeating note sequences. We also did some introduction to reading music notes on the staff and playing our bells to follow the notes.

Tech (Engineering): We didn’t do any specific engineering projects this week but we did go to the Ninja Playground where we got to interact with a lot of simple machines, especially ramps and levers and pulleys. There is a “teeter totter” sort of thing that you walk across but you also have to balance on it. Lots of neat tricky things to try. Oh wait, actually we did a building project in our co-op class where we made a model of the hand that demonstrates how the tendons work to make the fingers move.

My dad and I running up the walls at the Ninja Playground