Learning while we play, and playing while we learn
When we started school on Tuesday this week, we had many happy reports from Shooting Star students about what they did, where they went and to whom they gave their “Flower Basket” paper craft card we made last week.
We took some time to go outside most days this week, to learn, to play and to care for our plants. One BAD surprise was that we found small green caterpillars which had eaten many of the radish leaves; not much damage to the beets so far. One GOOD surprise is that we found a lot of NEW radishes coming up from between the stones…SOMEBODY spilled a lot of seeds, but they are growing strongly so far!
Nearly everyone is remembering the SUN, AIR, WATER, SPACE and GOOD SOIL that plants need to grow, and we added some NEW parts to our drama about bees, flowers, pollination and honey: first the FLYING bees go out to gather nectar and pollen from the flowers, they bring it home to the hive and pass it from their mouths to the mouths of CHEWING bees who chew it about 20-30 minutes before they pass it to ANOTHER chewing bee and so on until it is ready to to put in the wax cells of the honeycomb, then the DRYING bees flap their wings to take more water out until they finally make a wax cap to save that honey for winter food.
One TEASPOON (5 ml) of honey is the life work of about TWELVE bees!
Along with our UOI studies, we’re progressing on our reading and writing skills, and on remembering all the numbers from 0-100. Another fun and busy week!
We are getting GOOD at “Gray Duck”, with lots of inventive colors!
Surprise! Radishes among the stones!
Numbers one to one hundred with “Snakes and Ladders” game
Creating with clay.
Watch the marble go!
Busy writing!
