Sep. 19, 2009 - The end of Summer '09 at LLR

For our last week of Summer, we had beautiful weather here at LLR!  Schooling just seems so much nicer with all the windows open, clear skies, and a light breeze coming into our living/dining room a.k.a. the school room.

Artist & Musician of the Month Activities: We continued to listen to Vivaldi this week and collected some items from the yard - leaves, dirt, flowers.
We'll let them dry out over the weekend, and then Luke is going to make paints with them according to the directions in Amazing Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself.

Remember Me September Pockets:  I purchased a Remember Me Pocket from fortunatelyforyoubooks.com for the first time this month & LOVED IT.  We're not making the pockets as they have it laid out, but it is filled with activities & information that can be put in Luke's workboxes throughout the month.  One of them was a short biography of Tomie DePaola (his birthday was this week) and a colorful timeline of his life that Luke put together.

Science:  We're continuing Apologia's General Science Book.  We did this experiment on Tuesday.

Friday was Cloud Day!

We started out by reading The Man Who Named the Clouds by Julie Hannah & Joan Holub.  We also used these books:
The Cloud Book by Tomie dePaola
Clouds by Gail Saunders-Smith
Clouds by Anne Rockwell
Here are a few of the other things that we did for Cloud Day
***A crossword puzzle & a cloud worksheet that I found online. 
***Made a cloud wheel that I got here: http://www.homeschoolshare.com/docs54478/time_wonder/cloud_wheel.pdf
***Math practice was an online multiplication cloud game:    http://www.echalk.co.uk/tasters/taster3/taster.html
***Watched several cloud videos on YouTube.
***We printed off a cloud journal sheet here: http://www.goalongs.com/pdf/Cloud%20Data%20Sheet.pdf
***Took cloud photos outside
***After dinner, we tried this: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Cloud-in-a-Bottle  It took several tries and adaptations to get it to work, but Luke really had a lot of fun with it.

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