For the first 18 weeks of school we will study Earth Science topics. I use "The Well-Trained Mind" for resource recommendations. I bought "The Usborne Internet-Linked First Encyclopedia of Our World" for our main reference, but everything else we will just rent from the library. Except I also bought "More Mudpies to Magnets" for our experiment ideas. So the kids and I went through the World Encycl. and picked out the topics they were interested in studying this year. First up...
Tornadoes! So this week was all about that....
Here are the books I used to read from:
-"Kingfisher Weather and Climate" book (there were a few facts in there)
-"Tornadoes" by Simon Seymour (full of good info and pictures for their age). This guy wrote a book about everything, so we will be seeing more of his stuff in the next few months!
-For fun we read "Farmer Brown Goes Round and Round." It was a fun fiction book about a tornado.
Other activities:
-I rented "Twister" the movie and showed them a small clip of it...which left them dying to see more!
-I rented a National Geographic DVD called "Tornado Intercept" that was about 50 minutes and they watched and enjoyed the whole thing.
-We 'made' a tornado (directions in Mudpies book, pg. 114). This was a big hit.
-Played "Twister" (because of the name)
-L and K wrote 3 facts they learned, drew a picture, and wrote up an experiment page, all for their science notebooks.
The only thing I would have done extra is rent the Wizard of Oz to watch at the end of the week (all for the tornado, but hey). :)
Oh yeah...Although the kids didn't seem super fearful about us having a tornado and being destroyed :), they did ask lots of 'what if' questions. God brought this verse to my mind and I incorporated the Bible story of Jesus and His disciples in the boat and a storm came up and Jesus calmed it. The kids wrote the main verse on their pictures. The verse was "Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey Him!" (Mark 4:35-41). It was neat after studying how strong and destructive that these tornadoes can be, that God is still in control of it.
Tornadoes! So this week was all about that....
Here are the books I used to read from:
-"Kingfisher Weather and Climate" book (there were a few facts in there)
-"Tornadoes" by Simon Seymour (full of good info and pictures for their age). This guy wrote a book about everything, so we will be seeing more of his stuff in the next few months!
-For fun we read "Farmer Brown Goes Round and Round." It was a fun fiction book about a tornado.
Other activities:
-I rented "Twister" the movie and showed them a small clip of it...which left them dying to see more!
-I rented a National Geographic DVD called "Tornado Intercept" that was about 50 minutes and they watched and enjoyed the whole thing.
-We 'made' a tornado (directions in Mudpies book, pg. 114). This was a big hit.
-Played "Twister" (because of the name)
-L and K wrote 3 facts they learned, drew a picture, and wrote up an experiment page, all for their science notebooks.
The only thing I would have done extra is rent the Wizard of Oz to watch at the end of the week (all for the tornado, but hey). :)
Oh yeah...Although the kids didn't seem super fearful about us having a tornado and being destroyed :), they did ask lots of 'what if' questions. God brought this verse to my mind and I incorporated the Bible story of Jesus and His disciples in the boat and a storm came up and Jesus calmed it. The kids wrote the main verse on their pictures. The verse was "Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey Him!" (Mark 4:35-41). It was neat after studying how strong and destructive that these tornadoes can be, that God is still in control of it.
So here is the 'tornado' we made...
Luke getting a much closer look...
Recording on their experiment pages...
Finishing up with a game of Twister...
We like to play it this way best, when you race to the end of your color...
And here is a video of our tornado...
Can I PLEASE go to your school???? I want you to be MY teacher!!!!!!
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