Connect Four
For the first time in known Lansberry home organized learning time history, we completed 4 projects in the same morning.
–Math: Toby is almost done with his 4A book, thus was motivated to do a lesson in his Singapore workbook in addition to Computer Math! I ordered the 4B’s yesterday. His two older sibling are still back in fractions. Elsie will be starting 2A when the books arrive.
–Bible: The children helped me come up with a Bible schedule which is working well for us. They take turns reading Peter his Bible story, studying with Mama, and doing their workbooks. Then on Friday, we have a time of sharing the favorite verse, story, etc. that we learned this week. Today it was Toby with Mama, Samuel reading to Peter, with Elsie and Moriah working independently.
–Writing: Today we covered some planning and time management principles. I really like this curriculum so far! Though not specifically ‘writing’, this area must be covered to successfully complete our project. Then the children each wrote a letter to Mama and Daddy (me and James) telling us about their thoughts on our writing project, what things enable them to write their best, and asking for help in implementing their plan.
–Physics: Lesson 4 in Lego Simple Machines covers levers. We talked about what levers are and what they accomplish. It doesn’t seem right to talk about levers without mentioning Archimedes’ famous quote, I printed up this picture as an intro to our discussion. Then they built a model drumming machine, hooked it up to the motor (an automatic drumming machine- not something I really saw a need for around here…hmmm), and experimented with changing the rhythm.