Yes...it's been a few weeks and even fewer pictures, but we really have been studying Oceania. We did the usual map and flag coloring and we did a topo map of Australia. We also read some fun stories from Aboriginal legends. E is still reading Nim's Island - a fun read about a girl trapped on an island. We also created dot painting similar to some Aboriginal paintings. The boys both painted eels (have no idea why except that they wanted to) and E painted a fish. Betty painted a rainbow. L was the only one who didn't really enjoy doing the painting. Usually he likes to paint, but I guess the dot work with a Q-tip is more tedious for him.
I even let the little man try his hand at dot painting. Do-a-dot that is! He did pretty good for about 5 minutes then he started trying to eat it and then got mad when I would take it away and started throwing them. But at least he was confined for a time. :)
Mr. Z started his All About Spelling program without even throwing his tiles! He doesn't like to put them in ABC order though. Boring, you know. (Yes, I know.)
We're still enjoying the R.E.A.L. Science Chemistry that we're doing. The boys really got a kick out of the expanding marshmallow experiment. You're supposed to put a marshmallow in the oven at 500 degrees and then let it cook for 10 minutes to show how the air makes the marshmallow expand. It got to where the boys would be doing a rocket launch coutdown every minute to record the expanding marshmallow on their lab sheet. What a hoot!
Lab sheet.
New marshmallow.
Marshmallow after 10 minutes in the oven. Nice, huh?
Good times! They had to tell Daddy all about that one when he got home.
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