Lots of books from home & library... (with a few DVDs, not pictured)
Our verse for the week is one we've learned before..."When I am afraid I will trust in you!" (Ps 56:3) And we've talked about how some weather is really scary - we know that God is MORE powerful and always in control of it!
Yesterday D&K both created their weather books - to "journal" and draw in this week as we learn about different types of weather.
We learned about tornadoes Monday - watched a DVD about Extreme Weather that included a story about "The Monster" tornado that hit Oklahoma City in '99, read two books - Tornado Alert & Flash, Crash, Rumble & Roll. We also discussed what we do when we have tornado warnings in our area. K kept saying, "I'm thankful for our basement!" (ME, too!!!!)
After watching the DVD, D was amazed that some people choose to drive TOWARDS the storm! Whew, no storm-chaser in the making here!
D found a "twister" in a jar experiment from one of his storm books and so we did that today - a review from yesterday's topic. :o)
The twister happened so fast that we caught just the end of it in the picture underneath the white bubbles...D thought it was pretty cool! I'll have to make the pop bottle one for him another day as I know it lasts longer. :o)
Today we read about Hurricanes and stopped frequently to point out various areas on the globe (D remembered a lot, I'm glad!). D & K made their own hurricane to observe the calm in the eye of the storm (idea from Janice VanCleave's book about weather). It was neat to see the paper clip remain still in the "eye" of the storm swirling around it (water & pepper).
We also looked up the hurricane flag & D drew it into his hurricane page.
We learned hurricanes rotate counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
Remember our worms project from 2 weeks ago? D took off the black paper today and found a tiny path through the sand with dirt from one of the worms he placed on top. He was hoping for a lot more paths, but still got the idea that worms move and move the soil around, so they're good to have in the dirt!
Besides the fun weather books, activities & reading, D&K are keeping up with the their Singapore Math and HWT. D's cursive is just amazing to me...he's so anxious to learn all the letters. K had fun using clothespins for math today to see that adding horizontally is the same as adding vertically. By the end of the paper she wasn't using clothespins anymore...kept saying, "Mommy, don't look, I can do it." She sure did it...they were all correct!
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