This week we are rowing Glorious Flight. A loooooong time ago I found these styrofoam planes at Big Lots and bought them for when we row this book. They have been in the bag in my room for many months. We finally got to use them! Daddy helped the kids put these together and we went into the backyard to…
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Glorious Flight
This coming week our FIAR adventures take us into the air…learning all about airplanes and the some of the first adventurers in the air. I think our week with The Glorious Flight will be a fun week! Books we will read Other activities and lessons *we will introduce a few names like the Wright Brothers and Amelia Earhart…
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Some Squirrely fun!
Today we had all kinds of squirrely fun! First of all, we took the idea from MacBeth’s Grey Squirrel Project and had an acorn hunt in the backyard. I printed off a bunch of acorns, because we didn’t have any real ones. We also wrote the kids initals on the acorns. We gave each little “squirrel” a pile of acorns…
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Starting our Squirrel unit
We actually got a head start on our squirrel-y learning yesterday! And 2 of the books that we read were SO good that I wanted to share them. Again. This first book is called Earl the Squirrel. It is written by Don Freeman, who also wrote Corduroy. Though I had never read about Earl the Squirrel, I figured if the…
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Homemade Pot-pourri
We started this project when we read about Paul Revere and colonial times. We learned how to make pot-pourri the colonial way! But I thought I would make a separate post, because I think this makes a great gift idea! Items needed *flower petals (fragrant flowers) *lemon or orange rind *herb leaves – I used lavendar, you can also used…
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