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Christopher Columbus ~Historical Fiction and Non Fiction 3rd&4th Grade

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My 3rd grader said the above books were the only ones he liked.

He also got upset with any books that were not directly about Columbus at first.

I explained to him the importance of knowing what was going on in the time of Columbus and what his influence on the places he explored was.

He finally gave in…

HA

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My 4th grader (I don’t want to say how many times I have messed up his grade because 4th seems too old) said he pretty much liked them all!

Except the “Animals Christopher Columbus Saw”, the cover looks good but it is pretty dry.

I realized I was not really giving the boys much in the way of science this year so I am having them study Oceans and Sailing to go along with their study of Magellan.

This has not been the year for science experiments.

This has been the year of figuring out the best way to teach with more kids.

Now that the first half is almost over I am hoping to add more fun in but I am so thankful my boys are such good readers!

It has definitely been my saving grace!

If you teach a child to read nothing can stand in their way!

Including an overwhelmed mom…

Explorers ~Columbus and Oceans!

Two of the books that did not get pictured in this shot are “The Magic School Bus on the ocean floor” and Geronimo Stilton “The discovery of America“.

We did one day on Marco Polo before we started on Columbus.

I finally caved and bought a grammar book.

I really like this one! The lessons are simple and the boys are retaining a lot!

He is reading the Geronimo Stilton book “The Discovery of America”.

We read it all together for the first book on Columbus but then he wanted to read it on his own as well.

We finally got to use our Aquarium guide!

I might have gotten a little bit to enthusiastic about it.

We were reading about feeder shrimp and saw one in with the eel, it then climbed up on the eel and looked like it was going to clean it’s mouth!

I was practically jumping up and down and yelling…

An employee came up and asked if we saw the eel.

Um, yeah. I saw it thank you…

This is at the Jenks Aquarium.

Since we were learning about oceans we did this salt water experiment.

All you need is water, two glasses, two eggs, and some salt.

It worked great!

The boys loved it!

The Santa Maria.

Columbus looked like a viking and his first mate dressed like a storm trooper.

You didn’t know that?

Hmm, they must have left it out of some of the history books.

We made this so the boys could see how sails worked.

We put it in the bathtub and used a fan for the wind.

One of the things I like so much about RightStart math is how hands on it is!

They get to play some sort of game almost every day.

His loosing face.