Wynter and I are teaming up again this year to teach our kids Science and History. This arrangement is so awesome, and adds a fun and social aspect to our learning each week.
First semester I am teaching Science and focusing on rocks and minerals, using the book Explore Rocks and Minerals with 20 great projects. To kick off our topic, we learned about the Earth and it's layers. First, I read them the book Under the Ground, to introduce the layers, then we made a paper diagram, similar to the ones my kids and I did for our volcano unit. Only instead of having the kids draw it free-hand, I made up the diagram on the computer and printed it out for them to color and label and glue in their notebooks. Then we did the fun part. We made the earth and it's layers out of Play-Doh. We started with a small red ball for the inner core, then an orange layer around that for the outer core. Next a yellow layer for the mantle. Then blue with green spots on top to represent the oceans and the continents for the crust. Once everyone had finished their Earth balls, we used a butcher knife to slice them in half, to show the layers.
This semester Wynter is teaching History and focusing on Colonial America using the book Explore Colonial America with 25 Great Projects. Today she taught the kids about why the pilgrims decided to leave England. They colored a map of the 13 Colonies in order of where the pilgrims landed first. They will glue the maps into their notebooks as well. Then they carved boats out of bars of soap, and got to float them in the "ocean" (a bucket of water). How cool and fun! I was impressed.
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