Day four we are aiming to do the following:
- Talk about what makes someone or something alive and make a list of what’s alive around us.
- One Small Square
- find a small square to observe
- add our notes in our nature journal
- Continue Lecture 1 of High Park Nature Centre’s Nature Journalling for Naturalists. (it’s about 17 minutes, and we have 8 minutes left)
- Read more Tale of Desperaux
- Astronomy Unit from Pandia Press
- Archeologists Dig for Clues
- Wild Math/Khan Academy
- Organizing things into Categories - A lesson on Categories from BFSU (Basic Foundations for Scientific Understanding)
- sort it out
- L is for Library
- We’re going to use this lesson to sort recycling into containers and paper/cardboard.
What did the day actually look like? - Spend an inordinate amount of time watching and reading books on Kanopy Kids during breakfast: - including: Rosa Parks, Susan B Anthony, Martin Luther King Jr, Louis Pasteur. We also learned about Balto, and Koko the gorilla. - Did you know 1&2 from Highlights - We made the “small square” with an old pie box, and spent a very nice amount of time outside, looking at different things within the square and outside of it. Identifying four different mushrooms on the property, and added some great stuff to our nature journal. And also sorted and categorized some of the things we had found outside (flowers, mushrooms, pine cones, ferns.) - watched some of the Nature Journalling video and got some good ideas on what to add. - things like where/when, weather, wind speed, sunrise, sunset, moon phase, and how to organize a page. - We drew some mushrooms. - We did some basic wild math work with a pillowcase ten frame and flowers/rocks/ferns. - We read through the astronomy lab 1 sample, from Pandia Press. - And we talked about what was alive - and what makes something alive and some examples of what’s alive out there. But we’ll have to revisit the Natural World pages again - as they are quite dense. Understandable, but dense. - We did the sorting activity. - We did not get to the Tale of Desperaux today, but I suspect we will read it on the weekend for fun.