Week 3

Ferry Ride

Our New Fish

Jellyfish crafts

Jellyfish at the Aquarium!

Cool Turtle

Octopus!

Alligators!

Each week gets better and better!!! I absolutely LOVE our curriculum choices for the year. We have not had this much fun together in so long.

This week, in My fathers world, we studied Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Name of Jesus. We've read stories of Native Americans and life in Jamestown, all written from a child's perspective, which is so intriguing for the children. We'll spend the weekend reading some Pocahotas novels for enjoyment. Next week we'll really get into the study of Native Americans, so this week we focused more on the FIAR curriculum.

FIAR brought us into the world under the sea this week. We read "Night of the Moonjellies" and fell in love with the idea of being along the sea in New England. We studied jellyfish, dolphins, sharks, whales, salt water fish, crabs, eels, and just about every ocean life book we could get our hands on. We learned so much about biospheres and food chains. We EVEN went to the store and bought the kids some fish for a science "project". Abigail is now the proud owner of a Betta Fish, Princess. And Dominic is the proud owner of 2 goldfish, Jack and Jill. And it was all worth it, when on Friday fun Day, we took a trip to the aquarium. The kids would say, Oooo look! A Moray Eel mom! Look at how its yellow because of the slime! And Mom! Look! A horseshoe crab! Let's flip it over and see how it can use its tail to flip back around! And MOMMMMM! MOOOONJELLIES!!!!! Hehehe. And then, oh how excited they were to learn that on the way home, we would be riding a Ferry across the river, just as the child in their story rode a boat the night he found his moonjelly. It was magical and wonderful, and lovely. We even invited some friends along, and had so much fun. Then to finish the wonderful day, we'll be eating some New England Seafood favorites... Lobster, Clam chowder, Fried clams, and milkshakes.