First Grade–Week 26 & 27 (Ancient China)

We are finally back in motion (at least for my oldest)…we had been doing a really light load for a few weeks, and have now dived back into Science and History!
These last two weeks we finished up our Animal Kingdoms unit for science, talking about Mammals, and then reviewing the vertebrate kingdoms.

We also played the game Quick Pix Animals

We watched The Magic School Bus Bats episode, and Brain Pop Jr Classifying Animals (It’s FREE!)

For History we talked about Ancient China
C read

We watched
(on netflix)
We also watched an Ancient China episode on Brain Pop Jr (you need a subscription to view this)
Then C practiced some of his Chinese words for the week by painting them (I printed them extra large). The one he is showing below he did on his own from memory, after seeing it on Big Bird in China.

They also got out the play dough and tried to make their own Terracotta Warriors (no pictures). 
It was a good two weeks even though we didn’t get any field trips in b/c of colds!  Boo! 
We will be taking a few weeks off of our regular science curriculum to do a review…but will pick up next week with History.  This week we are off to the beach! 
*Check out Brain Pop Jr, they have a few free videos and then a featured FREE video each week.  Brain Pop has one FREE video a day.  Recently they have had videos about Tornados, Land Changes, Bridges (they seem to go along with current events, like the OK tornado and the WA bridge collapse).  We just bought a subscription through the Homeschool Buyers Co-op at 25% off.  But you can get the FREE stuff online or by downloading the FREE APP!

Review–Eggy Nursery Rhymes–Reading Eggs App

Another great App from Reading Eggs!  Eggy Nursery Rhymes brings to life 10 all time favorite nursery rhymes.

The variety of activities for each appeals to children both younger (ages 2-3) and older (4-7) depending on their abilities.  Activities include sing along, make your own, find the word, starts with and make the word. 

Rewards consist of golden eggs and critters to hatch.

This app is great for teaching word recognition, spelling and beginning letter sounds. (I did email the company in regards to them using words with blends in their starts with game.  I feel it is confusing for children.  For instance the word SHEEP, they would have _heep…. it is difficult for a child to know that the correct answer is S, since the sound is Sh and not Sss).

The quality is consistent with their website and other available apps. 

I have no hesitation in recommending any Reading Eggs products I have viewed, including this one!

Note:  Be sure to visit the settings page to adjust the accent, this makes a difference in letter names and pronunciations! 

Poppins Book Nook–Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs are quite popular in our house, we have a wide variety of favorite dinosaur books and we have done a lot of different dinosaur activities that I’ll be resharing with all of you!

Usborne Books has a wide variety of Dinosaur themed books for all ages.

Here are some of our favorites:

The possibilities for dinosaur activities is endless!

Comparing Weight with Dinosaur Eggs

Dinosaur Graphing

Dinosaur Matching and more

Dinosaur Pattern Blocks

Making Fossil Prints in playdough

Open and Close Dinosaur Eggs

Measuring Dinosaurs with nonstandard measurement

How big IS a dinosaur?

Dinosaur spelling

You can find even more dino activities at each link! 

We also watched Bus-a-saurus Episode and my kids had a blast with this Magic School Bus Dinosaur App (You can try the LITE version for FREE)

Check out my DINOSAUR PINTEREST Board, and we’ll have a DINOSAUR ADVENTURE coming soon at Field Trip Friday (probably next week!)

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