Here are some photo’s from our trip the Carmichael’s pumpkin patch!
They have animals that you can feed.
The feed does cost money but not much.
I think the Llama’s were a bit full…
Beautiful animal though!
We went with a bunch of friends!
I think the highlight for me was the little baby piglets they had!
7 days old!!!
I guess we need a pig now…
It is a great place to visit!
If you live in the area check it out!
Since 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
Making 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!
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.
My 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.
One of the Trojan’s looking out of the city.
The Greek’s sneaking back to the city on boats.
After 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.