CC Week 2: When boys decide they like school after all! : Half a Hundred Acre Wood

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In addition to our normal ongoing long-term projects (like Timeline Notebook, USA Notebook, American History Stories, and lapbooks),

Stephen completed Toymaker’s paper mayflower:

while David made The First Thanksgiving Book:

We also created a pilgrim “Thank You God” mini-book from Christian Preschool Printables, which tied our history sentence into our Attitude of Gratitude study.

David put on a play about Squanto and his “wife” introducing themselves to the Pilgrims with these paper Pilgrim and Indian puppets. Stephen also made a papertoys Pilgrim family to add to the mix.

We made Tom-Tom drums and enjoyed acting like we were performing at a Pow-Wow – until we ran out of balloons (because these balloons do not hold up for long when a two-year-old is playing).

{Let me just insert here how difficult it was for us to come up with a Native American poem for IEW this week, the main reason being that I did not read through the entire lesson first. Our brainstorming session included strong verbs for a Pow-Wow, NOT for how the Indians would feel as the newcomers arrived to their land. NOTE TO SELF: Read the entire lesson before starting!}

and watched Yours and Mine: The Lesson of 1623 (a free DVD from Izzit.org), along with The Pilgrims episode from Drive Thru History, This is America Charlie Brown: The Mayflower Voyagers, and Schoolhouse Rock’s No More Kings (which leads us into next week with the Boston Tea Party…) While we were at it, we watched The Body Machine, Do the Circulation, Them Not-so-Dry Bones, and Telegraph Line (nervous system). These links take you to Schoolhouse TV where you can read the lyrics and click on a link to the youtube video.
We went on a Virtual Thanksgiving Field Trip to Plimouth Plantation and downloaded this interactive Thanksgiving History Game.
We made a real mess masterpiece with a smaller, simplified version of a Mayflower craft we had previously found online.

Our readings that tied into our history sentence memory work: “The Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving!” from William Bennett’s The Children’s Treasury of Virtues, Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims by Clyde Robert Bulla, The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh, and Pocahontas by Jan Gleiter
Homeschool in the Woods offers a Jamestown replica you can print on cardstock. (If you are planning to do an in-depth colonial study, you will also want to take a look at the American Revolution Time Traveler Study – and/or the Colonial Life Study.)

Stephen completed a few worksheets on the Human Body: Label the Organs, Name that Body Part, Human Organs and Human Skeleton and Y our Bones
We also visited a few websites for Human Body and will refer back to these throughout the next 10 weeks or so: