We started the year with a series of books by Capstone Press. Each book focuses on a planet and it was the perfect amount of information for us. As an intro, though, we learned two planets songs you can watch here and here. The unit study lasted thirteen weeks (one lesson per week). I will email it to you, for FREE, if you leave a comment with your email address. For the last lesson, my husband helped the boys put together a solar system kit that now hangs from our playroom ceiling.
We'll tag this as applied science. :)
If you know anything about my boys, you know they are obsessed with Legos. In honor of that obsession, we do a lego build day about once a month. There are two ways to do this; by theme or by set. The easier, of course, is by theme. Last week, the boys' assignment was to build a lego snail and a tree (for no other reason than they had asked to look up pictures of lego snails. You can do this for almost any animal). First, we googled an image of a lego snail and then the boys built it. Other good ideas might be a house, a beach scene, the desert or a pizza shop.
I could get into all of what this teaching; creativity, imagination, taking a visual example and turning it into a concrete object...and there's so many more benefits, but let's be honest; building with legos for school is just plain fun.
Sci-Quest Membership
Your local hands-on science museum is a great place to teach science. If you're lucky, they may even teach homeschool classes for you! If you're local, Sci-Quest is a great place to get a membership and they do teach a homeschool class twice a month for elementary students (more for older kids).
If you enjoyed this post, find out what else we're teachin' in Kindergarten & 1st Grade...
Music
Poetry
Field Trip to the Zoo
Handwriting
History & Social Studies
Math
Art
Bible, Character & Life Skills
Literature Reading Lists
Reading, Spelling & Phonics
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