First week of our "workbox" theme and J has completed the activities set out for him, apart from trips to the park because of bad weather.
First part of the week was taken up with English and Maths, then Wednesday he was so into his action man game all day so we carried the activities over to Thursday and were all caught up by Friday.
I don't like strict schedules for learning at this age, but I as I have only organised a few activities I would like to try and get the few I have organised done each day if possible.
So Thursday and today the activities have been Science, History and Geography based.
Science - Workbook, covering animal classification and healthy eating. Science Experiments were "What dissolves in Water"
We used five jars and rice, salt, sugar, coffee and honey
(should have been ground coffee as well as this wouldn't have dissolved but I only had instant)
Also "Do soluble substances evaporate with the water?"
History - Egypt, which we will be following this month.
Read a story involving Egyptian animals in the dessert, Egyptian mazes, colouring and making an Egyptian neck torque and headdress
Geography was my favourite, Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rocks, along with the Earths Crust and Tectonic Plates, explained in Primary age form of course, and also using chocolate and pink marshmallow wafer biscuits:
Metamorphic rock was explained by bashing a curly wurly (no photo as it got eaten straight away by J) around in a sandwich bag, then sitting on it, explaining how heat and pressure can change igneous and sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
So all subjects covered this week, now to start planning for next week :)
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