TEACHING GRADE 3 INSECTS
Hi Everyone,
We’ve been hectically busy, everything is just coming together at the moment. Cross your fingers and hope it lasts! This week Juliette has learned about the butterfly. We had to do insects and the butterfly was such a beautiful creature, I had to use them as an insect example.
I drew a colourful butterfly on the blackboard, labelled all its’ important bits, wings, compound eye, antennae etc. (Got to tell you it’s so sweet. StJohn sees the feelers/antennae and tells me,”Wow Mom those are beautiful “feelings”.” Heart melting as usual my dear boy!)
Anyway back to butterflies, Juliette drew the diagram, coloured it beautifully then we went online and found butterflies of all sorts at various museum sites! Weird but true, they had the best butterflies!
We’ve being going over the parts of a butterfly/insect all week and ended with a butterfly craft pattern, a stuffed felt butterfly.
Jules has also been doing her phonics, afrikaans and maths, subtraction with carrying. It’s been going well. We’re still practising divide using our board game and the concept is in and understood!
StJohn has done the letter N this week, I used Naughty Neville, an impossible naughty fairy that loves eating naartjies. StJohn loved him and feels that he could be Naughty Neville, as he is always up to some nonsense and (he tells me…) he gets away with it. Apparently I often don’t catch him being naughty. (It’s called turning a blind eye! I’ll let him know when he’s 20!)
Thats about it for school. These past 2 days, we’ve also been to see a movie, and shopping to spend pocket money.
As usual StJohns’ is all gone in 1 shop. Juliette has most of hers still, and I hear her counting it daily (Maybe she expects us to steal it while she’s sleeping who knows!). She’s so odd with money, saves and thinks 10 times before spending a cent, but then StJohn will want something in the shop and his moneys gone, so Jules buys the item for him, without a second thought! Never lends him the money, just buys it as a gift! Quite amazing to see how small humans work…
Enjoy your homeschooling this week. If you live in SA then enjoy those last few crisp winter mornings. Spring is so on its way!
Susan
PS. The weaver debacle! Remember the first nest was ripped apart by the female, together they started the second nest. It was stunning, solid and a nest to be proud of. Then the branch it was on broke off, nest crashed to the ground. Now the weavers are building 2 nests next to each other(different branches), and they’re both helping. Most peculiar but still enthralling. I’m still hoping they’ll get it together and lay a couple of eggs before we head on back to Cape Town. But they seem a bit on the less than efficient side! Bless them!
Filed under: Homeschool on August 28th, 2007
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