Henny Penny
Last week I strayed from Five In A Row and used some ideas from Ruth Beechick's Language and Thinking for Young Children. We read Henny Penny by Paul Galdone and The Goose that Layed the Golden Egg, found in Aesop's Fables retold by Tom Paxton. Henny Penny was our main text and we learned about birds and kept things light and simple.
Our vocabulary words were the different names for chickens (as well as a few other bird species): Cock and Hen.
We made a book about birds. The children could practice writing and also use glue and stickers.
For Science we read the Eyewitness Book Birds as well as a book about ducks, and turkeys. Jim Arnosky's book I'm a Turkey was great fun and we visited the Scholastic website to hear him sing that one to us a few times. Even Gwendolyn enjoyed it:) It was neat to gain such insight into Jim Arnosky's personality as well, since we love his literature.
We practiced making nicknames for ourselves following the pattern in the book. This proved difficult since I intentionally gave the older two kids names that are not easy to slap a -y at the end. We became Mommy Lommy, Tristy Listy and Stacy Lacy.
For math, we continued to learn about time. We made a water clock out of a paper cup. Our water clock measures every 5 minutes out of 55. And we looked at a 3 minute sand timer from the Scrabble game and talked about how digital, electric and atomic clocks keep time. Way over all of our heads! He He:)
We decided that Henny Penny should live in France. The illustrations in Paul Galdone's book looks like they are from the Middle Ages, and we do not have a King in America. Also, we learned from How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World that "French hens lay elegant eggs" . So that was our geography/ social studies lesson. We talked about wisdom and using critical thinking. Henny Penny jumped to a pretty large conclusion based on very little evidence and what's worse, all of her friends believed her without a question! This led them all right into their doom. -We have read a version of this story where Henny Penny escapes, but Paul Galdone issues her the same judgment as the other birds in his version.-
All in all it was a light week for us. Gwendolyn had some allergist appointments and we visited our local Classical Conversations group for their open house. One of the Moms at the CC group taught the children about the orchestra and different groups of instruments and now I am very excited
for this week's book. It will include learning about music and instruments.
Our vocabulary words were the different names for chickens (as well as a few other bird species): Cock and Hen.
We made a book about birds. The children could practice writing and also use glue and stickers.
For Science we read the Eyewitness Book Birds as well as a book about ducks, and turkeys. Jim Arnosky's book I'm a Turkey was great fun and we visited the Scholastic website to hear him sing that one to us a few times. Even Gwendolyn enjoyed it:) It was neat to gain such insight into Jim Arnosky's personality as well, since we love his literature.
We practiced making nicknames for ourselves following the pattern in the book. This proved difficult since I intentionally gave the older two kids names that are not easy to slap a -y at the end. We became Mommy Lommy, Tristy Listy and Stacy Lacy.
For math, we continued to learn about time. We made a water clock out of a paper cup. Our water clock measures every 5 minutes out of 55. And we looked at a 3 minute sand timer from the Scrabble game and talked about how digital, electric and atomic clocks keep time. Way over all of our heads! He He:)
All in all it was a light week for us. Gwendolyn had some allergist appointments and we visited our local Classical Conversations group for their open house. One of the Moms at the CC group taught the children about the orchestra and different groups of instruments and now I am very excited
for this week's book. It will include learning about music and instruments.
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