We had a fun week of learning! Our Kiwi Crates came this week! We babysat a bearded dragon for a friend, and had a week of resting at home!
Working on our math and writing books has gone well this year! We make it happen almost every day of the week!
Michael has been researching Minecraft ideas after they watched some YouTube videos. They are trying to figure out how to enchant items with coding, beyond what the normal game play allows (the original version of Minecraft is called the "vanilla" version, where as if you download add on's or use coding codes to change it, it is no longer the vanilla version).
Avery's Kiwi Crate was all about birds and flight! He built a model of a birds wings, which moved. We read in the book about how airplanes wings are designed after bird wings, the teardrop shape, and special flaps based off bird feathers. By shaping the wings this way and adding flaps that move like bird feathers, humans were able to create aircraft that flies! We also read how certain birds move their wings for specific purposes, like how hummingbirds move their wings in a figure eight pattern to hover. Additionally it pointed out that birds use soar and coast patterns to create lift, or fly higher by swirling up a warm air draft.
Our art project this week was making thanksgiving turkeys out of our hand and foot prints. It is a fun tradition we have done since Michael was a tiny toddler, and I love they still humor me and make them with me.
We read a chapter in Story of the World this week. It was a review of France's revolution, about Napoleon's nephew, and finished with a synapses on the progression of Prussia into Germany. The boys made their turkeys while I read.
Emmet's math book has Minecraft challenges every ten pages or so. today they showed me all the challenges they have done. The math book specifies a challenge and how many and what type of items they can use, then they set themselves a thirty minute timer and see if they can accomplish the challenge. The six they have done so far are: build a hobbit home, build a tree house, create a large head of a minecraft player, make a gold storage room, make a barn, and make a brick house with a fireplace.
Michael had an idea of having a game table that is only for playing games on. He "stole" one of our folding tables from the veggie wash room in the barn and pushed the two couches together. It isn't perfect, but it made a good place to hang out in front of the fire this weekend, playing games while it poured rain outside. We played The Farming Game. The boys played Fitzs, a tetris like board game. We also played Uno and Yatzee this week.
Weekend snuggles, reading our library haul.
Emmet got creative with his handprint turkey!! He made a footprint cut out, then started chopping triangles out of it, which ended up being bend points that he folded together and glued, which created a 3D turkey body!! I was very impressed.
Page on anatomy of a bird wing from Avery's Kiwi Crate.
This cutie we picked up for a friend! She was out of town and wanted to buy this bearded dragon, and we happen to live close to the family selling her, so we picked her up and got to take care of her for a day.
Michael and Emmet's Kiwi Crate was building catapults! They also came with cornhole goals they built and bean bags. It all goes together to play cornhole, but you have to aim and launch your bean bag with the catapult!
The older two have read many books this week, and Avery did three lessons on reading. We hope you all had a good week!
The Dillmans
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