Planning - Week 3

English
Workbook and on-line games for the basics.  Reading  The Mitten (can read this on-line here) plus reading and writing activities relating to this story.

Maths
Workbooks and also printables with activities related to The Mitten.

Science
Workbook. Also Weather  experiments  Tornado in a Jar, making frost and making fog

History and Geography
Museum trip to look at the Egyptian collection and  the Geology section.
At home - Rock experiment using chocolate chips and marshmallows

Igneous Rocks: Melt some white chocolate (and red dye) on the stove.  Talk about how magma/lava is melted rock. Then take spoonfuls of the melted chocolate and let it cool on a baking sheet.  These will be ‘igneous’ rocks.

Sedimentary Rocks: Hammer the chips in a ziploc bag to make them smaller. Put spoonfuls of the different types of chips into a jar.  These will be the  sediments.Apply pressure to squeeze the rock/chocolate layers together to create sedimentary rocks:

Metamorphic Rocks: Put layers of chocolate chips and mini-marshmallows into a pan that could be baked in the oven. Put the pan in the oven and let it heat up for 10 or 15 minutes. Take it out, let it cool for a few minutes and then apply pressure to the top of half the mixture.  This will transform the “rocks/chips” into a new concoction and on the other side you will see distinct layers and distinct rock forms (like sedimentary rocks).

(above from The Homeschool Den Blog )

Egyptians - us the Discovery Kids Hierogenerator to see what our names would look like in hieroglyphics and if I can find sugar lumps in the supermarket we will make a Pyramid out of Sugar lumps.

Will also watch The Prince of Eygpt (if I can get the bloody BT pin number to work) :)