MFW-Turtle/Us Unit

I have gotten a little behind in updating our lessons.  I have been knitting like crazy to get Kaiya’s birthday gift done.  Now that it is done, I can update before I get to far in with Christmas knitting.

Turtle Unit

This unit was a little slower for us.  We read books and learned about tortoises, terrapins and turtles.  The boys got their backpacks and stuffed them full and then walked around like turtles.  They also made these cute turtles.

And the turtles had a race with the hare at the end of the unit.

We then moved onto our Us unit.  This unit was definitely more interesting for Ranen.  He really seems to be showing an interest for the sciences.  We got a couple books from the library that have some great pictures in them.  We learned about the human body and our bones.  We then moved on to studying our senses.  We did many blindfolded activities.  They had to guess certain sounds, taste different foods with and without a plugged nose.  We also did smelling and touch tests.  We finished off the unit with tracing the boys’ bodies and they got to fill in the features.

They had a blast with this.  I didn’t stop smiling.

Now we move onto our Dinosaur unit.  I am interested to see if this will be a new obsession or not.  We will see…