We did 2 projects today in school...
We are doing a really great science curriculum Charlotte Mason style that's units follow the 7 days of creation. We cover all of the areas of science while focusing on where they stemmed from....our Lord. We naturally started out with "Let There Be Light" and so today we did a short activity on the sun and shadows.
We traced our shadows in the morning and then came back hours later to see what had happened
Nick asked if I had paid someone to move our chalk drawings while we were inside doing other school subjects
They were amazed. It was neat to get to have them really see the change instead of just telling them about it and having them look at a picture. They loved being able to SEE the movement of the earth by looking at the sun
THEN IT WAS ONTO ANCIENT EGYPT FOR HISTORY
We are learning about the Nile River and how they used it to water their crops and the legend behind why the river floods every year. We even studied the red king and the white king. They love it.
We made our own Nile Rivers with the "River Delta" section. They look a lot like lobsters
Here is Madison forming her Nile River Delta
Here is Savannah covering the bottom of her river with rocks
After we set in the rocks, we put flower seeds in the dirt to see how the river would make the soil fruitful
Flooding our Niles
It is really fun to work with the kids! We have such a great time together
