The pond was very clear for a few days due to lack of rain and so we spent time observing the baby fish, the bigger fish that eat them, the tadpoles, and caught a few to observe more closely.
On our nature walks she has been looking at the animal prints in the deep, dry dirt and making those of her own. In this case, she was making bear and monkey prints to compare.
History this week was working through our Knights sticker book. We listened to Early Middle Ages music as we worked on the book.
Grandma Sherry came for a visit!
In Reading, I wrote out the new words she has been learning on flashcards and we created sentences out of them.
Friday we met with the Homeschool Group for a study on Trees. She made many leaf rubbings and identified several trees.
Music is still a daily ritual for us and she is enamored with it. She 'writes' her own compositions in a little notebook Grandma Sherry bought her. She even played one for her piano teacher yesterday. She played a very dramatic piece and told me the name was "Danger". Her practices have been going well and she seems to really love it. She is also frequently playing her recorder, and anything that makes a drum sound. We spent time listening to the Music Together: Family Favorites during her art projects this week. She became frustrated that the keyboard will not allow her to play in soft or loud tones, she can only adjust volume. In explaining to her why she became interested in how a piano made sound and so we watched and discussed a video about that on youtube.
In Science, due to her interest in the topics, we studied how a propeller is attached to an airplane, how cells defend against germs, and how a ceiling fan turns. She drew diagrams in her notebook of how she thought they worked, completely spontaneously, brought them to me and then we looked up the answers together. It seems the books on inventors really has her attention!
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