Week 10: Salmon, Worms, and Turkeys!

Another week of no forest school! This time it was us, as the boys developed a slight cough and runny noses come Monday morning. They each picked movies to watch as we rested and made bone broth soup. Avery had picked the Wild Kratts special about salmon migration. We happen to be borrowing the Salmon Lifecycle Game from one of our co-op friends and hadn't played it yet. It was a lot of fun and a great way to learn while resting!

One of the library STEM projects we picked up a few weeks ago was about making a composting worm jar. The boys used the ingredients for another project, but Michael decided this week he wanted to make them anyways. They spent several HOURS on Tuesday gathing jars, dirt, worms, rotting leaves, some food from the compost bucket, and constructing their jars. Then they spent all week checking on their worms!

Our math curriculum has quickly surpassed what Avery can keep up with, so he has started doing copies of pages out of this fractions book, which was also a favorite of the older two a few years ago.

Story of the World chapter was on the 30 years war in Europe. The boys colored paper doll soldiers and we talked about St. Martins Day. We made plans to cook what is similar to funnel cake and light candles, however the boys got distracted when we went to bake and we ended up making a pumpkin pie from one of the squash we grew this summer. haha!

Doing math!

Our sniffles and slight cough were gone within a day, so by Thursday we felt awesome and joined co-op on a hike at a local park. We hunted for mushrooms and played for a few hours! It was coooold. 

Our art this week was making hand and foot print turkeys! Avery refused to put paint on his hands, hahaha, so he painted his turkey with a brush.

Worm jars were a great science exploration this week, but we also did a lesson in our Chemistry unit. We started to construct our own periodic tables as well as do an element symbol and name match sheet. Then we drew our favorite elements symbol on paper with lemon juice, which acts like invisible ink! We tried heating it by the fire place, then with a hair dryer, but we either didn't paint the juice thick enough, or didn't dry it long enough, but they did not show up well.

 Hope you had a stellar week!

The Dillmans