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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Peter Rabbit recap
Well, our unit on Peter Rabbit was a huge success!
Here are some pages from our FIAR scrapbooks from last week.
 We learned about the author/illustrator, Beatrix Potter, and her life growing up in England.
(and...we still are hoping to watch the Miss Potter movie - but it wasn't available at the library this week.) We were also thrilled to find a bunch more of her stories at our Goodwill this week!
Next we learned more about England - (the home of both Peter Rabbit and Beatrix Potter!)
 We learned about the flag, and how England is a part of the United Kingdom of Britain.
We also learned about some famous landmarks of England...
We observed the British custom of 'tea time' and had tea and biscuits (aka cookies) for a snack one day, (...and of course it was chamomile tea...which is the kind that Peter had to drink before he went to bed.)
And finally, we learned about some of the differences in British vs. American English
For science, we studied many different things...
First we learned about rabbits, hares, and pikas...
how they are lagomorphs, which are in a different order than rodents.
We also learned about gardens - and Julie and Joseph are both planning/drawing their own
'dream garden' based on photos and information they found in a seed catalog.
(Their drawings are both 'works in progress,' as they are quite large!
I will try to share the drawings when they finish.)
And the third thing we learned about for science is our immune system.
We learned that when our bodies get cold, our immune systems are weakened, which is why poor Peter Rabbit got sick after he got wet and cold.
 Other things we learned :
-Vocabulary words (implore, exert, sieve)
-Adjectives and descriptive writing. (Julie wrote several paragraphs with examples of descriptive writing)
-Showing motion in art. (We looked at several illustrations that showed motion -
Peter or Mr McGreggor running, etc. Then we tried to draw some examples of our own.)
And we took two awesome field trips:
1) Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary in Green Bay
2) The Milwaukee Botanical Gardens in 'the Domes" (I'll share photos from this trip later this week!)
It was a great week, and it was a great 'pick me up' from the monotony of our workbooks.
It almost makes me wish we had just done FIAR as our main curriculum for the year...
and it really makes me look forward to using a unit study approach with My Father's World next year!
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