Winter Promise Week 6

This week was a whirlwind of activity and fun places to go. We were able to visit the local museum of Science and Industry as a free benefit from being aquarium members. So, for an impromptu school trip, we headed to the museum for some fun. J also studied owls this week and dissected an owl pellet, after much begging on her part. She worked on time and word problems in Math and action words for grammar.

J is playing a reading game with printable eggs. I love this photo with Kaleb in the background. He is never too far away from what we are trying to do.

Her independent story of the week was I Went Walking. We work through a story a week from an old school reader.

We finished our forest/woodlands unit for Winter Promise and ended it by making a diorama of spring and autumn in the forest. Here she is coloring the diorama pieces.

J's finished diorama of the forest. We will be working through the wetlands next.

J is working on her owl page for her animal notebook.

I always try to add items to her notebook. We listened to different sounds that owls make and J drew an owl on her notebook page.

This was the activity that J was so excited about - dissecting an owl pellet. She begged to do this all week. A small note about the owl pellet - this pellet is actually a fake owl pellet that contains only one skeleton of a bird. I know some of you may not think this was a great learning experience but I think it was. A real pellet would have had too many bones for her to process as well as the gross factor of it being kinda smelly (done this before). I will wait a few more years before we actually dissect a real pellet.

Last activity of the week, an owl bead project to finish it off. Not too bad for a busy week, I think. I hope your school week went well.