The Road Less Traveled
• Dec. 3, 2007 - Unit study
My six year old recently began a lapbook unit study on snow. So far, we have made progress, but without doing a single activity listed in the study. We are trying to do the assignments that came with the unit. Somehow, we always wind up doing something else. We are, at least, sticking to the topic!
Today's lesson began with an attempt at writing out the process by which snow forms. I should actually say "intention" instead of "attempt", because we did not get any further than my looking for the information to read with my son. As soon as my toddler saw me flipping through the unit information, he left his snow-watching marathon at the window and began a monumental tantrum:
Me: (standing at the table with a stack of papers in my hand) Let's see, how snow forms...no, that's not it, maybe this page.
2yo: (approaches me with his arms in the air; I think, at first, that he wants to be picked up) Nooooo! Noooooooooooo! (Turns out, he does not want to be picked up. He wants to pull the packet from my hands).
Me: I have to find this. Please, just let me do this.
2yo: Nnnnnnnoooooooooo!
Me: (To my six year old:) Why don't you get the colored pencils from upstairs?
6yo: OK. Is he going to color?
Me: Yes.
2yo: Nnnnooooooo! I don't want to color!
I get his preschool activity book and pull out some pages with same/different exercises.
Me: Here you go.
2 yo: Yay!
The six year old hops over to his brother's chair, pencils in hand, and explains the "assignment". He is supposed to be doing his own work now, but...
They work on this for a while, then I ask them if they want a snack.
Me: Would you like yogurt?
6yo: Yeah, yogurt!
2yo: Nnnoooo! I don't want yogurt!
Me: (after other options are refused) Do you want ice cream?
6yo and 2yo, together: Yeah, yeah, ice cream!
Me: You do know that this will give you brain freeze, don't you?
6 yo: No, it won't. I know how to not get brain freeze.
2yo: Ice cream! (He is jumping up and down now)
They sit down to their snacks, and I wonder what on earth could make them want ice cream when it is snowing and cold outside?
6yo: Do you have brain freeze yet?
2yo: No.
6yo: Well, if you get it, you just do this: put your hands on your head, get up and walk around. (He demonstrates and his brother follows)
So, this is how you get rid of brain freeze? Well, it's cold-related, so maybe I could find a way to incorporate this scientific discovery into his lapbook! |
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• Dec. 3, 2007 - Cool Afternoon
Good intentions with a lapbook project are just the same as actually doing the project in my book. A for Effort!!!!
Have a good day.
Jaimers