FUN School - Another Celebrated Dancing Bear

We are still in to the Fun School idea. I think we will really enjoy this week.

I finally have a copy of Another Celebrated Dancing Bear by Gladys Scheffrin-Falk. This is a fabulous book about friendship and how we can support and uplift one another.

Monday:
Social Studies: RUSSIA!

I have another Highlights Top Secret Adventure. We will complete this together, and use the book as a reference throughout the week.

Tuesday:
Language Arts: Characterization

We will compose several sentences that are descriptive of people we know. It will be fun to see what they come up with.

Wednesday:
Art - Color/Posters

We will talk about how color choice sets a mood in a story.

Also, the local univerisity is having a showing of Russian movie posters. We will see if we can take a tour and relate it to the poster that is shown in the story. We will see if they want to make a poster of their own.

Thursday:
Applied Math - Hours on a Clock/Seven Days in a Week

This lesson is pretty basic for my kids. We will try to beef it up a bit with time differences. Maybe talk about time zones.

Friday:
Science - Boiling Point/Freezing Point

We will find the boiling point and freezing point of water.

I think this story would be fun to act out. I may have them make bear masks and we will see how we do.