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Monday, January 16, 2012

Rolling into school again!

Unit:  Animals                 
Week 1: Creation
Creation (scriptures) perfect state, no production, just constant
Our responsibility:  to take care of, tend to, make use of and nurture animals
Week 2 production
Conception/fertilization, egg/birth, nursing to adulthood
Week 3 Life cycles
All the different types of life cycles; raise our own, plant seeds; raise a mill worm…..
Week 4 Predators and prey
Food Chain, all things have a purpose
Week 5  Animal uses
What different animals do, used for, how they help
Week 6 how to kill, and eat animals
Hunting techniques, gutting (explore anatomy), cooking, preserving
Week 7 what can I do today to help
Environment, raise animals, take care of them, love them
Week 8 project
Boys create a project to tell what they have learned

The next unit will be Man v Wild unit.  The boys are thrilled for that.  

This is us creating the solar system today....



Poke some holes in some paper and have interchangeable constellations you can look at

Orion

Loving his new knowledge of 'light'

It was SUNNY today!!!  Freezing but sunny.  This is the boys eating some snacks on the back porch

Taking their wood shields and making a perch in the willows :)  Love it!


Our Solar System Mobile hanging up in our School room


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