'Where the Wild Things Are' activities.....

We will be focusing on the following in the next few days - as well as the literature guide that I bought to go with our book - then we will follow up with a trip to the movies!!!

www.cdm.org/i/Resources/Articles/Wild-Things-activity1.pdf

www.cdm.org/i/Resources/Articles/Wild-Things-activity2.pdf

www.cdm.org/i/Resources/Articles/Wild-Things-activity3.pdf

www.cdm.org/i/Resources/Articles/Wild-Things-activity4.pdf

including a short script for a play for 6 children:

www.timelessteacherstuff.com/readerstheater/WhereWildThings.pdf

We also plan to do numerous crafts to go along with the project - including making crowns, boats, masks and planting seeds. I will post updates and pictures as we go along!!!

Breadmaking...

Lloyd has started baking bread. He now bakes two loaves of wholewheat every two days. Abigail and Sam help him do this. They really enjoy the whole process and have learned a lot from it. Now that they have perfected the wholewheat loaves they plan to try other types - with grains and flavours...

Tornado!!!

Today we finished our 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs' project by making a 'tornado in a bottle'!

We used a simple plastic water bottle which we filled 3/4 full with water. We added 1 teaspoon of liquid soap, and one teaspoon of vinegar. We replaced the lid TIGHT!!!! We shook the bottle hard so that everything mixed together and created lots of bubbles and foaminess.

Then we rotated the bottle in a circular motion which created a tornado inside the bottle :) The more you rotate the bottle and the harder you rotate it, the clearer it is to see the tornado - and you can make the funnel touch the 'ground'!!

Tomorrow we are starting our next book project which is 'Where the Wild Things Are'. We have read this book many times before, but this time I have a 'literature kit' to use with it...and after we finish the work, we will go and see the movie which is now in theatres.

Music to my ears :)

I take it all back! Abigail has really surprised me and all the practice has been paying off! She has taught herself to play about six or seven songs on the recorder REALLY well! And to read music!!!! In just a few weeks!!! At just seven years old :) We weren't going to do any music at all this year as I am really not musical at all, but she has taken it upon herself to learn the recorder!

Her Sister taught her one song - Hot Cross Buns...and that was enough for her to learn a few notes. Now she has taught herself the rest!! This morning she performed them all for me beautifully and I am very impressed :)

Abigail has always been such a determined little thing - and will always keep trying something until she 'gets it' - like skipping, or swinging on the swing....so I shouldn't be too surprised I guess that after a few weeks of constant playing on the recorder she is now a great player!!!

:)