Creation Study ~Day 4 Sun, Moon & Stars

finishedsolarcar trying finishedcarSince we had already studied the properties of light on Day 1, we just made a couple solar powered projects for Day 4.

We read:

“Going around the Sun Some Planetary Fun” by Marianne Collins Berkes

and

“Eight Great Planets” by Laura Purdie Salas

Both are rhyming books and would be great for young children!
We watched The Magic School Bus “Lost in Space”.
My boys have seen all of these before but they seem to get more out of them when we watch them while learning about something in the video.

solar paint casual heldtable scales grammar grammar2 mathscale numbers abacusMaking the Solar System ended up being a great way to explain how seasons and years work!

It is a great visual tool!

It would also be a great time to go to a planetarium!

I also included a few peeks into our other schoolwork.

Hope you have a great week!

Day 1 Light, Day & Night

Day 2 Atmosphere

Day 3 Dry land & Plants

Things they remember…

In January 2012, I wanted to read some of a children’s version of the Aenied to my boys.

Since my boys were 4 and 5yrs old and the version I had did not have pictures, I was worried about them retaining any of it.

castleMy solution was a play castle for troy and lego’s for the Trojan’s and Greek’s.

I had them act out the story while I read it.

trojanOne of the Trojan’s looking out of the city.

greeksThe Greek’s sneaking back to the city on boats.

trojanhorseAfter a failed attempt at building a trojan horse I improvised with the boys dinosaur.

When it comes to teaching my boys I have no clue what they will retain.

Some things we work really hard on and they cannot even remember it to the end of the day.

This morning my now 7 year old asked if we could get the castle out and redo the attack.

He remembered that the soldiers snuck into the city inside a horse and that one of the people’s names were Simon(Sinon).

Apparently any story I want them to remember needs to be acted out with lego’s.

Good to know.

Our Weekend

course crank crank2 help helper2 dropoff spot popup mathMy husband did the Pumpkin Holler Hunderd(that is how they spell it) this weekend.

He did the 100K race!

Cannot believe he did that!

eyes faces smirk macnchees rice runnerThe race started at a campsite so we set up the camper the friday night before the race.

It was nice to have a place to go with the boys for meals and downtime.

There were two aid stations that crew could drive out to meet the racers so we went to those also.

waiting run halfwayHe had to do a 50K loop twice so he came back to the campsite for his halfway point.

Then he went all night.

It ended up dipping into the 30’s.

BRRRR!

tomsaywerMy oldest joined him for his last 9 miles at 6am Sunday morning.

He was mostly walking by that time.

web sunrise puddle finish doneHe did it!

My 7yr old did really well also!

9miles was a little more then he had gone before but he loved all the attention from the volunteers and the candy at the aid stations.

He did say next time he wanted to race instead of being a pacer so he could get his own medal though…

It ended up being a beautiful way to spend a fall weekend!

At least for me.

I was not doing a 100K race though…