We're wrapping up the Unit and all the projects and getting ready for our nice, long, deserved spring break trip down south! There will be some schooling over the two + weeks we're gone but Sophie's done an excellent job with the Colonial America unit and we're all in need of a break after this long, cold, dark winter!
So, yesterday we traveled to Friendship for her voice lesson with Kat, which went very well. They worked on harmony.
Then we were back to the farm and Sophie worked on her Human Body poem illustrations, while Gamma helped put together a book to collect them all.
Lily helped me in the barn and it was a lovely late-winter, early spring day…I even took off my ear-warmers and my gloves to work in the sunshine. All the snow was melting around us and we could smell the mud! Then Lily and I went on a little walk and collected rocks and she jumped and played in all the puddles.
Sophie worked with the Brain Quests in the car and they both did great! Lily is really smart and Sophie is a good teacher for her.
Sophie worked on finishing coloring her Gray's Anatomy book and writing another Human Body poem.
Last night she stayed with Emma and they did their on-line homework for their up-coming trip in mid-April to the US Figure Skating Association camp in Ohio. There are weekly homework assignments sent on-line to help prepare her for the camp, which is another exciting opportunity for Sophie!
Today she is working on another Human Body poem and then we're off to the farm where she will work on her collage book. Depending on the time, we will also work on the body and her body poem book when we get home this afternoon. She has skating practice this afternoon for a couple of hours, getting ready for the show this Sunday.
I feel good about where we are and all that she accomplished this unit.
Activities
Science
Math Workbook—1 page Guinness
Art—Colonial Letters Collage book
Skating—3 hours practice on solo programs
Creative Writing: Human Body Poems
Human Body Poem
The Human Body is…. Fill in the blank~ repeat each sentence beginning twice for total 10
The Human Body is as complicated as a 500 piece puzzle
The human body is like the Earth because all the different parts are the continents and the blood is the ocean
The human body is the most wonderful invention yet
The human body is a project uncompleted
The human body is amazing with how it clears diseases so quickly
The Human Body is as ancient as the mammoths of the ice age
The human body is like the satellite system that cell-phones use
The human body is the longest living two footed creature
The human body is a computer with how the brain works
The human body is a puzzle I have learned to complete
Spine and Backbone poem:
The spine and vertebrae,
They have a cliché,
It's like a highway,
A highway in your body
As I said before,
Blood instead of cars,
With Organ knights at the end,
Acting like police guards.
Here's a little story,
I heard the other day,
It's about a girl named Suzy,
Who comes and saves the day.
"Lucy's back was hurting,"
Yet she couldn't figure why,
So she called up her friend Suzy,
Who couldn't help but cry…
"Oh Lucy my friend"
There's something wrong with your spine!
You bended it so much,
It doesn't look like mine!
Your backbone is crooked,
Your vertebrae fell,
Your discs have stopped turning,
That's what's making you yell
But I have a medicine,
Said Suzy strong and bold,
Go into this room,
Sorry it's so coldJ
Lucy said," How will this help?"
The cold air straightens you up,
"Oh Suzy, you're amazing!"
So much better than doctor Pup!
Then the next day Lucy,
Was playing basketball,
With a banner hanging high
Saying," Suzy saved us ALL!"
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