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.

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.

Burgess Seashore Science - Unit 1

We are going to go use the Thorton Burgess Seashore Book as our living book for science for the first 9weeks of Z's 2nd grade year. We are going to do some narrating, note-booking, & mini- lapbooks to go along with what we read about and also experiments from Super Concoctions book.

I haven't seen anything done specifically with the Seashore book, so I am having to pull this all together myself. We are trying to follow the format somewhat how HOD does science but we are flexible and tailoring it to our liking. HOD stands for Heart of Dakota publishing. We love, love, love the curriculum, but as with anything, we are tailoring it to our needs and wants just a little bit. We will be using Bigger Hearts for His Glory for 2nd grade, Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory for 1st grade, and Little Hands to Heaven for PK3.

This blog is an attempt to keep all the science plans and resources together for myself and for others who may be interested in doing something like this.

We will usually read 4 chapters a unit and the 5th day will be for the science experiment.
We will be checking out a few library books such Animals of Sea and Shore & At the Ocean.
The Kingfisher First Animal Encyclopedia is one that we own and we use alot in our science studies.

The first unit will look something like this:
Day 1    Chapter 1     Narrate
Day 2    Chapter 2     Mini-lapbook (Sandpiper)
Day 3    Chapter 3     Narrate in some form (Tattler)
Day 4    Chapter 5     Notebook -DWN pg.49 
                                (Draw WriteNow book #6) (Hermit crab)
Day 5    Super Concoctions Experiment (Brine)

We are trying something else new this year. We are going to do school 4 days a week and the other day will be for catching-up, free day, playing with friends, or fieldtrips. We school year-round.
We are flexible. :)