Week 30

When you can make a snow angel in the driveway (that you shoveled clear the night before)

PE- We should count shoveling snow as our work out! The kids mainly romped in the snow (which is a work out, too) and we did an indoor obstacle course. The kids also invented a game where they blew up a balloon and used pool noodles that had been cut in half, to keep it in the air.

Math- J learned ratios and A learned skip counting forward and backwards by 5's and 10's.

LA-Opinion writing

Social Studies- icivics and Government Crash Course

Tech- Coding.org and Kiwico Crate- this month is was circus themed. 

Science- Learning about animals from books and Wild Kratts. Their stay curious question of the week was, "What was the first animal to be kept as a pet?" As far as we can tell, it was the dog, which is believe to be the first domesticated species as well.

The kids were delighted to find sugar candy in the bottom of the syrup bottle. So we learned about how sugar crystals are formed and how to prevent them from growing in things like homemade syrup in the future.

More Science/Tech was all this kids in town were invited to make and race pinewood derby cars.

J made a cat bus and A made a dragon car. They both did extremely well in the racing, which is surprising since J's was literally designed to be a bus. J took first in every race, except the first time when they raced her car backwards. In that case, she got second and A's car, who happened to be in the same heat, took first. His car had a crash in the second heat when the car next to his had its wheels fly off.  They didn't re-race that run, so it was a third place then and the race after. But a little adjustment to the wheels and he took first in his final race. 

J won the award for "Most Improved" but really it was the award for standing closest to the stage when the organizers realized they had one more award to give away. We'll  enjoy it anyway.

All About K and A2

Painting

Stickers

And Kinetic Sand