M & M Adventures: Week 16

L. Arts: I did a reading assessment. I learned about the double E phonogram. Mom read me a story about bunnies and I answered some questions about it.

Math: I am working on subtraction within 10. I did some workbook pages and I also did some Dreambox lessons.

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 handsigns 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 actually we did make an engineering project at one of our co-op classes. We made a model of a hand to show how the tendons work to move the fingers.

At music class