MFW: Adventures in U.S. History Week 3

MFW:  ADVENTURES IN U.S. HISTORY WEEK 3

This week we will learn more about the name of Jesus, Jamestown, Squanto, American Pioneers, and  more details on Air.

BOOKS



Some of the books we used this week

BIBLE 



Jesus window poster, she really enjoyed this activity.



Such a fun activity I even made one for our window display.

~John 3:16

~1Timothy 2:4

~1 John 2:6

~Luke 2:51-32

READING



"How do you make a giraffe laugh?" by: Catherine Blittner



"Dear Dragon goes to the Police Station" by: Margaret Hillert 



"Grandma's House" by: Kristen Hall

LANGUAGE ARTS



Spelling words practice and some writing practice.



Letters K and L handwriting practice 



Learning about sentences and reading her spelling words.



Handwriting practice the letters M-R

MATH



More graphs 



Counting by 10s and 1s



More tens and ones practice 

U.S. NOTEBOOK



Handwriting practice 



Learning about Jamestown and Pocahontas 



We couldn't put this book down.  Ended up reading the whole book in two days, even though it was suppose to last till week 5.  

TIMELINE



Adding Jamestown picture to our timeline this week.
ART



Charlie Contrast practice 



Drawing balloons and clowns 



Overlapping practice 



Geometric shapes practice 

SCIENCE



Heavy Newspaper experiment 



Floating ball activity, got the idea from All for the boys blog.



Upside down trick experiment, the cardboard actually stayed stuck on the cup but not for too long so I couldn't get a pic of it.

NATURE WALK 



Went for a walk around the neighborhood, kids enjoyed observing their surroundings.  
VIDEOS 



Still learning about AIR this week so the kids watched a video on BrainPop App on the "WIND"



Borrowed this movies from our local library
ACTIVITIES



From the trip we took last week to the museum.  Kids getting a closer look at how the indians lived and their homes.



Feeling different items the indians used: bear skin, deer skin, arrow heads, etc.  Observing the indian homes and village.



Kids had a blast celebrating a friend's birthday at Monkey Joe's 



Enjoying the outdoors at Sonic 

This week we learned more about the name of Jesus, Jamestown, Squanto, American Pioneers, and  more details on Air.  Our favorite topic this week was learning about Squanto which has made lots of interesting conversations and more research on indians.  

GOD BLESS!

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