Week 15

What a perfect week to study the topic of energy! Our class was MOVING today! But we went with it and had some different activities to show for it :)

SCIENCE: Potential (stored energy) & KINETIC (energy of motion)
We walked around like robots and said the science sentence in a robotic voice. In science lab, we experimented with different objects to see how they could at times have potential energy and at times kenetic energy. Then the children played potential/kinetic tag - so funny! When tagged, they said, "POTENTIAL!" and when tagged again, they said, "KINETIC!" It must have worked, because at lunch, we saw two students eating - pausing - eating - pausing as they took turns with kinetic and potential.

ENGLISH GRAMMAR: Double negatives to the tune of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" (Oh you better watch out)

no, not, neither, never, none
nobody, nothing, scarcely, hardly. (use fingers to count with each one until "9" is reached)
These are the
Double (flash both hands twice)
Negatives (quickly move head from right to left like "no")

HISTORY:
Each student was a country. Three Allies stood on one side, with two Central Powers on the other.

The three allies held hands and raised them up in the air.
Fought against - both sides pretended to box
Central Powers - held arms up like showing off muscles
US entered the war - another person joined the Allies and held hands raised in the air

MATH:
Whispering "Shh, Shhh! Secret. Agent! Shh, shhh! Secret. Agent! The Area of a triangle equals one-half base times height." I color-coded the base and height of the triangle to match the B and H of the rule to make it easier for them to understand - but they are 4-6 year olds, so it was just an intro :)

GEOGRAPHY: Middle East
To the tune of Jingle Bells
Middle East, Middle East, Miiiiiiiidle East
Persia, Iraq, Syria, Cyprus, Tuuuuuuuurkey!
(And for presentation time, two students brought some things their dad brought back from his tour in Iraq - how neat!)

LATIN: We sang the Latin song (and for some reason they all seemed to want to practice Latin in review, so we went through most conjugations!).

FINE ARTS: I was so impressed with the creativity of the students! Their landscapes were beautiful! Remember to draw and cut out people and animals to paste to your landscape.

REVIEW: We played Make a Bucket, Roll the Dice, and Timeline Shuffle. This was the first time for this format of Timeline Shuffle - I think it was a hit!

Keep practicing - it shows! Thanks for another great class. I love them all so much!