Element study

For our first element week, we studied water. We started off with what floats and sinks. Ds really loved the hands on "experiments" and field trips this week.

Here is one of our art projects this week which worked well in celebrating St Patrick's day. I tortured ds the previous week by not telling him why we were painting eggshells. He was pleasantly surprised when he could finally handle the eggs. We first looked at rainbows online just to

make sure we got the right order. Then we went cracking on our own rainbow. Ds had fun at first, but then his sticky fingers really started to bother him by the time we got to yellow.

Great books we used this week:

The Snowflake; A water cycle story by Neil Waldman and The Old Woman & the Wave by Shelley Jackson. Both books have wonderful artwork and really know how to grab the reader and drag them in. The illustrations alone are inspiring. Below are a few examples of how the first inspired us:

Of course being that we are studying water, we indulged ourself in water color painting. I first wrote the months and drew on the wc paper with a white crayon. Then ds had a good time painting trying to figure out what hidden words and images would appear. We still have a few more to do to have all twelve.

With the warmer weather this week and a more relaxed topic to experience, we were outside a lot this week. We are lucky that we live close to many different bodies of water. First we visited our local falls. Despite the stinging wind, dc walked the riverewalk a pretty good ways. Then we went to the beach. The weather was definitely the best on this day. After walking a good way, ds wrote and read words in the sand. It was soooo beautiful and a great way to get vitamin D. I neglected to bring my camera, sorry.

I did manage to take a few pictures to one of our outings this past weekend. Here's one for the abuelos.