FIAR: Warm as Wool

This was such a cute little book we done back int the spring!

Warm as Wool

by Scott Russell Sanders

Wool Experiment #1

You will need some:

 wool

2 pop cans

1 plastic bowl that is larger than you cans (I used a cool whip container)

hot water

2 thermometers

Boil the water and fill the pop cans 3/4s full of the hot water.

Put one of the cans in the plastic bowl and pack wool around it.  Leave the other sit to the side.  Put thermometers in both of them.  Write down the temperature of them ever 30 minutes for 2 hours.  Compare the temperatures of them at the end.  Our insulated one was 86 degrees, but our non-insulated one was 64 degrees.  This experiment shows why sheep's wool is so important to us and keeping us warm!

We practiced carding our wool.  For this I used 2 dog hair brushes and had him use them working them against each other.  Make sure you start off with a small amount of wool.  This takes time!!

The next step was to use a cotton ball and have him SLOWLY pull and twist on it to form yarn.

This was off of one cotton ball!!  Take you time!!

Blessings!!

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FIAR: Owl Moon

It has been awhile since we rowed a book!  Conner was excited to get to pick this one!!  

Owl Moon 

by Jane Yolen

I added this book in:

Owls

by Gail Gibbons

We had fun coloring these pages!

This coloring page can be found here.

We also did several of the pages in this nicely done packet that is FREE!!

                                                             I also had him do a moon flip book.

These are a couple of videos that I found that were good.  The first one is the audio of the book.  The second one is all about owls!

Blessings!!

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FIAR-Cranberry Thanksgiving

Conner and I have really missed doing our Five in a Row book studies.    What better time than a week off to dive back into one!!  Cranberry Thanksgiving is a great resource about teaching kids not to judge a book by its cover.

Two other books we read were:

If you were at the first Thanksgiving by Anne Kamma

and

Give Thanks to the Lord by Karma Wilson

Cranberry Science!!

Seeing if they float!!

I let him try and bounce them into a measuring cup then he cut them up to put in our stuffing.

Our art project was to do a watercolor silhouette.  I uploaded a picture of him onto my Windows Word program, enlarged it, and then printed it out.  We glued it on a piece of watercolor paper and them the painted around it.  It peeled off very easily.

For history, we studied the Pilgrims and he did this project.

We did an online slide show or a cranberry bog.  You can find that here.

They also have a free downloadable activity pack found here.

Then we made cranberry sauce.

Put 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water in a saucepan and bring to a boil.

Add cranberries and boil until they start to pop open.  Put on low for 10 minutes.

I like mine jellied, so I used my stick blender.

Put in a dish and refrigerate for about 3 hours.

All in all, a pretty good row!

Blessings!!

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FIAR: A Pair of Red Clogs

A Pair of Red Clogs by Masako Matsuno

Conner really enjoyed this story.  The first thing I did was to soak a piece of wood in water and let it dry by our wood burner.  We discussed that if done enough, the wood will start to rot. 

Next we did a Koi craft.  You can find it here:

http://www.thecraftyclassroom.com/CraftJapanCarpKite.html

The next thing I did was to make Conner a pair of clogs.  They didn't take that long, but he has really enjoyed them!!

Materials:   a one inch piece of plywood cut into the size of the child's feet

                 4 pieces of the 1 inch plywood cut into1 inch strips and in the width of the shoe base

                 8 1-inch screws

                 nylon rope

                 scissors/knife

                 drill

                 lighter 

First, you need to drill holes in the small pieces of wood so that your screws will be counter-sunk into the wood and won't scratch you floors!!

Next, attach the wood pieces to the bottom of the shoe platform.  You should probably mark where to drill the other holes for the rope first, so the holes are not were the ropes are going to be.  

I didn't, but I lucked out!

You are going to want to cut a piece of rope about 8 inches long.  Tie one end in a knot and feed it through the top hole.  Make sure the knot is under the clog.

Cut a piece of rope about 15 inches long.  Tie a knot on one side and feed through one of the bottom holes. Again, make sure that the knot is underneath.

Make a loop with that rope and loop it around and push through the other hole.  Adjust the length of this rope by using your child's foot and then knot off underneath.

You will then attach the first rope to the second rope and knot it.  Check with the child's foot before knotting the rope.

Use a lighter to melt the nylon at all of the knots so that they will last longer.

He didn't want to paint them red, so I found some John Deere stickers and he went about decorating them that way!

Putting his clogs by the fire!  These have gotten some good use!  He would wear them everywhere if I would let him!  So far I only allow him to wear them out to church and home.

Blessings!!

FIAR-Lentil

This week we rowed the book Lentil by Robert McClosky.  We really enjoyed the book!

 

I let him make the town out of his legos. 

He used mama bear to play the part of Lentil!

                                         

Coloring his picture of Ohio.

I gave him a charcoal pencil to make a drawing of his chose, just like the book. 

Letting him use his finger to smear it around.

Of course we had to try some lemons!!

He liked them!!

I got the harmonica out and we practiced playing some notes on it!  He really loved this part!  

I don't remember where I found this page at online.  I had him use his do-a-dot markers, and then gave him some gold stickers for the stars.

Of course we did many other things with this row, but these were the ideas that were my own so I thought I would share these!!

Blessings!