So this morning rolled around and after breakfast Kaydence wanted to repeat an art project we did the day before. Its out of my montessori art book Let Out the Sunshine. These pictures are from the other day when we did it. **on the original day** Nolan spent a little bit trying to cut with scissors, and then asked for help. I cut his paper into strips after that. It's the first book in the activity. Again, we didn't follow the instructions exactly, but basically you have them cut long strips of paper and then glue them to a white paper. Kaydence asked me if I would do it too. So I sat down and cut strips and glued them to my own paper. Kaydence watched me very carefully and started to try to do hers like mine.
This morning Nolan was not interested in cutting or gluing. He played with his trucks and ninja turtles. While they were both busy I pulled out my montessori book to see if it had any helpful lessons. Turns out my book is great. I already knew that though. There was a suggestion to use a stethoscope to help them hear their breathing and heartbeats. We have several play stethoscopes, but no real one. So I thought I would post on the local homeschool facebook page to see if someone had one they would be willing to let us borrow. Not only did a lady respond pretty quickly that she had one, but she lives down the street from me. Crazy right? We went to pick it up and then we spent some time at the library checking out new books.
When we got home it was lunch time and Nolan was so grumpy from our late night. We had lunch and took an early rest. We watched the Magic School Bus inside our bodies while we ate. Once we got up I got the stethoscope out and I let them both listen to my heart. Nolan loved it, he wanted to listen to his heart too. For some reason it freaked Kaydence out. She listened for a few seconds and said, "I don't like that. It scares me." I have no clue why that scared her, but I didn't push it. She watched Nolan listen for a while. The book also suggests that you do a google search for heart drawings and photos so they can see what a real heart looks like. It includes (in the book, it's an e-book that I have printed out) links for cool videos you can watch. I went to youtube and looked for human heart beating. There are a few videos of chests open during surgery where it shows the heart beating. There is also a computer generated hear showing it beating, it was pretty cool. I was thinking that the surgery video would scare Kaydence since she didn't like the sound of her own heart. She asked to turn it on, so we did and she LOVED it. We watched that video about 15 times. She was asking why the person needed surgery and all sorts of questions. I'm not sure I answered all of her questions accurately, but I tried. We also turned on a clip of Bill Nye the Science guy I also found on youtube, but by that point she was tired and ready to play.
We had our dog trainer come over for our last lesson after that. One of our dogs is a crazy puppy and our other dog has this weird obsession with light. She's been helping us with both. Anyways after she left we had a snack and then Kaydence was ready to learn about skeletons.
We sat down and I googled an image of a skeleton and we looked at all of the bones. My montessori book suggests bringing out a pad of paper and having the child feel the bones in their body and make a list of the bones they could feel. I meant to do that, but I didn't. We felt our bones and we talked about what they did. She was mainly interested in her rib cage and we spent a long time talking about how the ribs protect our lungs and heart and why they are so important.
The other activity in my book that I wanted to try today was letting them feel and explore chicken bones. Lucky for me I already had some leftover drumsticks. I cleaned the chicken off the bones and gave them a really good washing. I put them on a piece of white paper and gave them magnifying glasses. We talked about how hard the bones were, and how light they are. I had them try to break the bones, they couldn't of course. One of the bones in my left overs actually was broken so I brought that one out and let them look at the bone marrow. We talked about blood cells being made there. The book suggested taking a fork to get the bone marrow out, but I decided not to do that. Kaydence asked for some crayons because she wanted to trace the bones and color them. She asked to paint the bones too, but I decided against that.
There is Bella hoping the magnifying glass with make a reflection.
There you go! Another day in our life :) we haven't done her reading lesson yet. It's been a busy day. The other day I ordered a book called Explode the Code. They are phonics lessons. I'm going to be using it along with her reading lessons. We will be starting a handwriting program once I can decide which one to use.
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