We decided that this year while the writer's class is continuing to learn how to write well, we will have a Five In A Row (FIAR) class for the younger children. The concept behind FIAR is that you read the same book at home once each day for five days in a row, and then when we meet on Fridays we will do a variety of activities based on the book. For our first book we chose The Story About Ping ~ one of my favorites!
After reading the story all together, the children took turns arranging picture cards in sequential order and re-telling the story.
Then we did a science activity based on buoyancy. There is a Chinese boat boy in the story who is tied to a barrel to make him float. We looked at a variety of objects and predicted whether they would float or sink.
After we all made our predictions we went outside and set each object one at a time in a bucket of water in order to test our predictions.
We made a mark in the appropriate "sink" or "float" column and compared the actual results with our predictions.
Then we made pictures of the wise eyed boat which was Ping's home, and a few brave souls even colored, cut out, and glued down ALL Ping's relatives ~ which amounted to 68 ducks! We counted while we worked.
It was a marvelous first day back at co-op!
4 comments:
Super fun and yay for you and keeping up w/blogging - we had a super busy day, but alas, I have not blogged yet - maybe later...if I don't fall asleep first. Ping!!!!
I LOVE The Story About Ping! Definitely time to pick that one up again.
Oh, what a fun day you had!!! I too love this book. I think we'll be rowing it again soon. I'm hoping it cools off a bit so we can do some lessons outside in our wise-eyed boat.
So glad you are able to have this fun co-op. I know it's been a huge blessing to our family too!
Hugs
Leslie
oooh - so fun! tears in my eyes as I think about what a blessing FLIC was to our family last year!! we know God is blessing us where we are but I miss you and the group of kids and moms!!
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