Yesterday, we spent the afternoon at Hobby Lobby picking out fabric and do-dad's for their sewing kits. It was so much fun. I am like a kid in a candy store. We finally got back on track with our Time Travelers New World Explorers study. We are having the most fun with this. We made our own Captains Log to document our travels. Last night we tore the edges of the paper to make them look rough and dipped the pages in a tea bath. I think our paper had a finish of some sort because they did not yellow so much but they did look worn. We made a cover with poster board covered with some fall themed fabric (on sale at Hobby Lobby). We then sewed the pages to the binding. It looks cool, I must say. Then we created a flag for each girl. Dreamer discovered "Madison-topia" and Sparkles discovered "Australia" on their first voyages. We were not able to find a old refrigerator box so we put two dining chairs together and put a brown blanket over them for our ship. We will be adding an entry in our captain's log daily for the next few days. Tomorrow we will be learning the parts of a ship ( for example: the crow's nest, the bilge, the bow, the rigging, etc.) We are going to dress up as sailors and sing the the Sea chantey "Blow the Man Down" from the 1800's. Sparkles practiced her money facts at the site internet4classrooms. Yesterday, we finished our China unit with going to National Geographic Kids and watched videos on the Terra Cotta Warriors, Giant Pandas, the Great Wall and the Yangtze River. The girls loved the Chinese Horoscope and the fact that Momma was a "Pig". Sparkles is a "Monkey" and man, did that fit her literally. Dreamers is a "Horse" and she did not fit the description very well. When Mr. Science came home, he explained the Three Gorges Dam in China to the girls. He used their base ten blocks to build the dams and explained it perfectly. That is why we call him Mr. Science....McGyver was already taken. :-)
Have a great evening!!
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