Unit 3 - Burgess Seashore

Day 1 - Chapter 11 (Narrate)
Day 2 - Chapter 12 Oysters (Mini-book)
Day 3-  Chapter 13 Starfish (Notebook)
Day 4 - Chapter 14 Starfish (Art/Notebook)
Day 5 - Super Science Concoctions (Pg 78-81)

Details:

Day 2 - We found picture on internet and pasted it in the mini-book. then he wrote information from the resource books mentioned in my first blog.

Day 3 - We used Draw Write Now #6 - pg 51

Day 4 -  We printed a Starfish template onto cardstock. Then we glued birdseed on the template. Using a diagram from Enchanted Learning.com we labeled some basic parts on the starfish.

We also viewed a few Youtube videos for the different sea creatures.

More Picts of Seashore Work

Oyster Mini-book

Starfish Notebook

Starfish Art and Notebook (label)

Finally some pictures

 

Least Sandpiper Mini-book

Hovering Veggies experiment Pg.74 (3 pictures above)

Blue Crab Notebook

My son copied some words wrong and it took me to post this to realize it. He did go back and correct it to read "grayish  or blue-green".

Hermit Crab Notebook Page

Seal Mini-book

Inside Seal Mini-book

Lobster Notebook

My son is learning how to label. Working on getting the arrows closer to the actual label name.  He says he can read it.

Unit 2 - Crabs, Clams, Seals, & Lobsters

Today I let Z draw a picture of a crab from the internet and then he wrote one sentence underneath. It was all his choosing. I skipped chapter 4 and read chapter 5 first, but he insisted we read both chapters about crabs so we had to go back and read chapter 4 for Day 1 of Unit 2.

It was also his suggestion to draw crabs on BOTH days. He likes to draw. So for chapters 4 and 5 he drew crabs and wrote a little about them. 

The blue crab was from internet site while the hermit crab was from Draw Write Now #6. When you don't listen to what mom says and you don't use the story paper , the picture and the copywork ends up on 2 separate pieces of paper.

This is the Unit 2 plan:
Day 1 - Blue crab (notebook)
Day 2 - Clams (narrate about the different types of clams)
Day 3 - Seals (6 matchbook mini-books in one big simplebook)(adapted from www.homeschoolshare.com).
He can draw the Harbor Seal on the cover.
Day 4 - Lobster (printout of minimized coloring page of lobster; label)
Day 5 -Super Science Concoctions - Hovering Veggies exp. (pg 74)

The following sites are extra resources for what we have used so far and planning to use for our notebook pages and mini-books.

Chapter 2- Least Sandpiper
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Least_Sandpiper/id
http://birdweb.org/birdweb/bird_details.aspx?id=169

Chap 4 - Blue Crab
http://www.aqua.org/animals_bluecrab.html

Chap 8 - Harbor Seal
http://seagrant.uaf.edu/marine-ed/mm/fieldguide/harbor-seal.html
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=harborseal.main

Chap 9 - Lobster
http://www.lobsterinstitute.org/index.php?page=18
http://www.gma.org/lobsters/activities/anatomy.html
http://www.lobsterinstitute.org/index.php?page=20
http://www.ehow.com/info_7842127_kids-lobster-activities.html

I have a few picts to post of notebook pages and 1 mini-book, but I  will have to post later.

Success

We managed to complete what was planned for each's days science last week with a little rearranging of days. All worked out good. I have to work on taking pictures during our experiments. 

We did a narration for Chapter 1, a mini-book for the Least Sandpiper in Chapter 2, and we did Day 5's experiment from Super Concoctions, instead of Chapter 3 of Burgess's Seashore.

Our experiment was making brine, so it went well with our reading about salt water in Chapter 1. It took much shaking and adding of salt before it wasn't being dissolved into the water anymore. Then we had to let it sit for several hours until it was a clear liquid with leftover salt on the bottom.

We have plans for a Horse Unit and have already completed 2 out of 4 mini-books for a Lapbook on Habitats.

The Habitat part we are using from Elemental Science's Lapbooking through Biology. We are going to use the Habitat and the Plant part this year. We will use the rest at different times and I will probably use it all with my 3rd child when she gets in K or 1st.