Sonlight Week 7

Sonlight week 7 brought us the Middle Ages, castles, Johnny Appleseed, counting by tens, and learning about currents and waves. Here are some of the activities we accomplished this week.

We read about Jacob and Esau and learned about the importance of being honest.

J practiced writing her teen numbers.

She surprised me by counting all the way to 100. She used a 100's chart but she counted/knew all of the numbers. J practiced counting by tens as well.

We picked up our Handwriting Without Tears book and practiced handwriting.

J practiced her sight words - she read them, glued them, and then wrote them.

She practiced her reading. I am so proud of her, she is sounding these words out.

J playing her sight word game - Find Johnny Appleseed. He was hidden behind a word that she had to find by reading it.

We read about castles from a book that I found at a sale here. It had a fold out diagram of a castle.

After we learned about castles, we decided to make a cardboard castle to play with. J painted it black/blue.

Here is our finished product. I had plans to sponge paint bricks on the castle walls but J just didn't want to wait another single second to play with them. It was pure agony to wait for the paint to dry.

For Science, we read about waves and made an ocean in a bottle. J added blue food coloring and purple glitter.

We conducted an experiment to see the different freezing times for various liquids. Kaleb is supervising, as usual.

My favorite picture of this week is the Johnny Appleseed that she created. We read about Johnny Appleseed and I wrote what she learned. She created Johnny by cutting out the pieces and gluing them together. But my favorite part, which is hard to see, is the face she drew on him. We have been studying Picasso and she created a Picasso nose and mouth on him. She says Picasso is her favorite artist! I love it!

Links

Craftberry Bush picture and idea for the apple print wreath came from here. Hers looks so pretty. We should have added the leaves, guess I forgot.

What the Teacher Wants has quite a few ideas for Johnny Appleseed plus free printables.

Mer Mag has the templates for the cardboard castle that we made.

Primary Possibilities free printable pattern for the Johnny Appleseed craft we did plus other activities.

Scholastic Books has an online apple book to read about an apple life cycle.