Week 21: Robert Fulton, Sink and Float, Fruit of the Spirit

Week 21

Robert Fulton

We learned about Robert Fulton in The Story of the U.S book this week.
He invented the steamboat, which the girls enjoyed coloring on their notebooking page and also crafting a little paper example to play with, as well.

these origami style steamboats were very fun (and easy) to create

You may notice that I am correcting a bit more of the handwriting and punctuation these days. I think they are ready for that correction and handling it well, while still having fun learning about our history as a country. I also noted how wonderful their coloring was this week. I was proud of them for taking their time and doing their best work Coloring can be something they rush to get done but I can always tell when they take time to slow down and try to create something special.

State Studies

We completed two more state sheets

Indiana

and Mississippi

and adding them to the growing stack of states we have completed.

Sink or Float

We had fun with our experiments this week. I found a simple sink and float printout online for free. We used one sheet to cut up (and laminate) to label our result jars on our tray and one to write out both our predictions and our results. We gathered objects in our schoolroom for our experiment and took turns placing them in our jar of water, one by one, jotting down the results as we went. 

Here is what our tray looked like when we had finished. My girls did really well predicting most of these objects, which was really surprising to me, since we have not talked a lot about this topic.

In the end, whether or not an object will float or sink depends on its own density, and the density of the liquid it is placed in.

Making Juice

We read some of our Science in the Kitchen book, experimenting with fruit. We learned about plant cells and how much water they hold. 

In plant cells, the vacuoles are much larger than in animal cells. When a plant cell has stopped growing, there is usually one very large vacuole. Sometimes that vacuole can take up more than half of the cell's volume. The vacuole holds large amounts of water.

The girls squeezed some orange segments to see how much juice those segments held. We also observed  how the orange pieces looked after the juice was removed. 

Next, we gathered several different fruit to see how much juice each would have
 and how hard it would be to extract it. 

There was a lot of squeezing, mashing and banging going on in my kitchen, all while a happy baby and toddler enjoyed snacks of leftovers.... and pulp.

and here is what we ended up with in the end.

The best part is my girls (and littles) ate or drank all of our experiment so nothing was wasted.

Jesus the Vine

We learned about Jesus as the Vine this week. On Sunday, we were fighting a virus and needed to stay home from worshiping with our church family, so I thought it would give us a perfect opportunity to create a few special crafts and reread what we had learned this week in our Bible lessons.

We created two crafts to review the story of 

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego 
(you can read about their story in Daniel 3)

these sweet crafts can be found here 

They were really easy to put together. It was simply coloring, cutting, piecing together, and gluing.

I found the idea for this cute puppet theater here.
The girls really enjoyed these! My preschooler also really liked this craft. 

Fruit of the Spirit

We also created these watercolor paintings with punched out "grapes", each with a fruit of the spirit written on them.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 

Galatians 5:22-23

I always love how unique my girls' pictures are, just like how God created them, unique and beautiful.

This week was not how I planned, but it was a very fruitful week.

to give you a little more detail on where and what we are studying

you can check out our classroom reveal HERE

and our curriculum  for 2014-2015 HERE

 and Week One here