Dinosaur Unit

This week we studied Dinosaurs, which is always a favorite.

HERBIVOROUS & CARNIVOROUS 

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Went over what are Herbivorous and Carnivorous Dinosaurs.

HISTORY

Learned about the history of dinosaurs and different places they come from.  All dinosaurs live in different area like the animals here with us.  Some live on land, water, and air.  

IDENTIFYING & HISTORY

K took the dinosaurs we have and matched them to the poster we have to try and identify them.  Afterwards we read about where each one lived, ate, and did. 

CAPSULES

Found these at the Dollar Tree which goes perfect with our unit.  These growing capsules are always fun.  We tried identifying them before looking at the card, and then painted with them.

BUILDING DINOSAURS

Found these beauties at Dollar Tree, you can probably tell by now I just love the Dollar Tree.  It was so much fun watching her follow the instructions to build these dinosaurs. 

FROZEN DINOS

Got some water balloons and placed a dinosaur in it.  Then filled it with water and froze it overnight. 

BREAKING THE ICE

Went outside and got a hammer to break the dinosaurs free.  She loved doing this and asked me to freeze more.  

EXCAVATION

Another great find at the Dollar Tree.  This does take a lot of work, I would recommend for older kids.  It takes lots of patience.  Of course her daddy and me helped and once we got to the dinosaur we let her finish the rest.  

DRAWING

K took three of her dinosaurs and decided to try to draw them.  Another project she decided to do on her own.  Love it when she takes the initiative.  

SEARCHING FOR DINO'S

Got out some stick sand and covered several eggs that had dinosaurs inside with the sand.  She couldn't wait to dive right in and look for the eggs.  

She dove right in and got to work searching for the eggs.  K really got excited each time she found one.

Even little D got in on the action

DINOSAUR TRACKS

Dipped the dinosaurs feet in paint and then pressed it on paper to see their tracks.

DINOSAUR EGGS

Mixed baking soda with water enough to form a clay like substance, then covered the dinosaurs with it.  Once they were covered I gave K a bottle filled with vinegar to look for the dinosaur.  She really enjoys doing projects like these.  

Working on Letters and their sounds

ALPHABET

Scrambled the letters (Leap Frog Magnetic Letters) and then had her put them in the right order.  We also tired it backwards...it's a work in progress.

Identifying Colors and Vowels

After she placed the letters in order then she proceed to place the letters in groups by color.  What I loved about this was the fact that she did this on her own without me even asking her.  Afterwards we worked on our vowels.

Insect Unit

This week was all about the insects.  

BEES

Studied beehives and bees functions in the hive.  Each bee has a purpose and they all work together to keep the hive functioning.   

Love the Magic School Bus program and books.  We read the book "Inside a Beehive", which broke everything down in detail when it came to bees and the beehive.  

FIELD TRIP

Ranger Mike did a great job explaining everything about insects and going into details about each one.  

Kids are enjoying getting to touch the displays the Ranger has set out for them. 

CATERPILLAR

Made a caterpillar with the letters of her last name.  She already knows how to spell and write her first and middle name.  It's been fun finding different ways to get her to spell her last name.  The poor thing has a long name.  

BUTTERFLY

We do this type of art a lot which she loves to see the outcome each time.

VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR

The very hungry caterpillar is such a cute story, which we have enjoyed several times.  This time we actually watched a video of the Hungry Caterpillar on Netflix.   After watching the movie she painted the caterpillar by dipping her balloon in paint.  Anything dealing with paint is always fun.  Then she made some caterpillars by using pom poms, cloths pins, and googly eyes.  I let her use the hot glue, with my supervision of course.  

GROW CAPSULES

Went to the Dollar Tree, such great finds at this store, and saw some growing capsules of insects.  We found that if you take the sponges out of the plastic capsules they come in helps the process of growth go faster.  If you have the patience to wait for the capsules to dissolve then you can just place the capsules directly in water.  After a few minutes the sponges grew and then we set them to the side to dry.  Once dry we tired identifying each insect, then looked at the back of the card to see if we were right.  You can also use the sponges to paint with, which we did but didn't get a picture.  

Learned the life stages of a butterfly. 

Martin Luther King Jr.

It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day

We are celebrating equality.

We are all God's children! 

We are all equal no matter the color of our skin. 

What are your dreams?

Wrote down some of K's dream for our world.

History

Michelle taught our homeschool co-op about MLK.

What would you change in the world?

They were all very proud of their craft. 

We must keep the peace

Learning how to keep the peace no matter the situation.  Michelle did such an amazing job, as usual.  

Joseph and the Coat of many colors

No matter what may come our way God will always take care of us.  He has our lives planned for us, we just have to have faith and trust in Him.  No matter what we may be going through God is in control. 

MEMORY VERSUS

BIBLE

Love the way she colored Joseph's coat.

UPS & DOWN

STORY OF JOSEPH

Joseph's brothers were jealous.  They threw  him in a pit and told their father he had died.

COLORS

Color recognition 

FORGIVENESS

ALWAYS FORGIVE 

Lion Unit

This week we are learning about Lions and Daniel in the Lions den.

FORK LION

Very easy craft that helps with motor skills and color recognition. 

I drew a face of a lion and had her paint he's mane using a fork,  then she painted his face with her fingers.  

PAPER PLATE LION

Cutting skills 

K learned everything about lions and then made a lion face out of a paper plate.  I made an example for her and then had her do her version.  Which I thought came out really good.  Her favorite part was cutting the plate, she loves using her scissors. 

FOOTPRINTS LION

Love any craft that involves their footprints or handprints. 

COLORING

Using her fine motor skills to try to stay in the lines, it's a work in progress.  

MEMORY VERSUS

DANIEL IN THE LIONS DEN

We have a box of Bible cards that we got from a thrift store that help better understand the stories from the bible. 

PUZZLE AND BIBLES

Nothing better than learning the word of God! 

ABC Mouse

We started ABC Mouse with K in December of 2014.  To be honest we were skeptical at first, but we took advantage of the free month trial.  She loved it immediately, she didn't want to get off the computer.  

Her desire to learn to read has grown ever since she started the program.  There's so many different things to keep her interested, and they are always adding new things. 

Very happy we took this leap of faith. Like always little D is by he's sister side while she does her school work. 

Into our world

Welcome to our homeschool.  I'm going to show you the inside of where most of our learning take place.  Mind you that where we have school is in a multi purpose room.  It serves as our living room, play room, and school.  I baby-sit during the day (8 am-5 pm), so things can sometimes get hectic around here.  It definitely keeps things interesting.  

Storage area

Here we have all our supplies for school, arts & crafts, office, and some misseoulous stuff.  

Dry erase board on one side and a chalk board on the other side.  

One of the best things about the dry erase board is that it's magnetic.  Which is perfect for Leap Frog Letter Magnetics that little man loves to play with. 

Computer section and math section 

Here is where Kanani does her computer work like ABC mouse.  We are working on learning how to count to 100 and to recognize our numbers. 

Bins 

In the first bin is some wooden blocks, second bin are two sound books and shapes & numbers cookie jar, and in the third bin contain an assortment of animals.  In between the bins are shape sorters.  The little enjoy pulling out the bins and playing with the toys.  

Toy bins 

Here is where the kids play the most.  There are a variety of toys which gets rotated out bi-weeklyz. The kids love to sit in the Elmo chair to look at books. 

Work stations 

I normally only keep two items on each self but I was in process of moving things around.  On the topic the shelf I normally only put things that person the subject of the week. We are also working on punctuation marks.  

Buckets

Here is where we keep our buckets each having a different subject.  On top of the shelf is the experiment kit, globe, and the 4 Seasons trees.  

Library 

Our wonderful library!!  It also stores our blocks and our foam solar system.  

Kitchen 

 Here's the kitchen area.  The only thing missing is the food chart that goes on the wall.  

Everything shelf 

We store our puzzles, games,and sensory bins.  On the wall is where she is learning to skip count & learn what amount each money is worth. 

Here's a little of our world.  Although there's nothing better than being outside in nature.  We love the great outdoors.

Till next time hope you enjoyed.