Day of endless possibilities

Today has been such a wonderful day on the home school front! We woke up feeling artsy so we created, painted and decorated our huge calendar for October. It was fun and super messy! (which you already know we LOVE) While we were creating our calendar we sang songs about the days of the week and months of the year. Next we did our calendar for today.

We did a science experiment today about sinking and floating. We did it based on the Magic School Bus book I mentioned earlier. We took what we already knew about sinking and floating and made a hypothesis. The question was: If you have 2 balls of clay the same size..make one flat and curve the sides up to make a boat...keep the other one a ball. Which one will float? BabyGirl's hypothesis was "The one that is flat because the ball will sink. That one will float since it's flat" She was thrilled when we finished the experiment that she was correct. We discussed the reason why she was correct being that the boat can push enough water out of the way & water pushes up hard enough so it floats. The ball sinks because the ball shape cannot push enough water out of the way. She thought this was awesome and we plan on doing more experiments throughout the week. Of course we couldn't end the experiment without squishing the clay around and around with water getting icky! :)

We did number 10 in our number journal today. We did different kinds of worksheets she picked out involving patterns, choosing quantities, and many dot-to-dots. She excelled in all of these and I've noticed can finish any pattern now.

Since we read and studied Johnny Appleseed earlier this month she has gotten into tall tales. We've also done Paul Bunyan last week, reading the story, making puppets and acting it out. Today we did John Henry. She is familiar with the story already, but we read it again this time pointing out aspects of it that made it a tall tale. We found fact and fiction parts of the story and compared them. We talked about why the story survived. We discussed that it may have been since his life was about power and strength that no system could take from a man. To thousands of workers he was an inspiration and an example. He was a man just like they were, who worked in the same deplorable conditions but still managed to make his mark. We talked about how we posses the same strengths within us today. We can do anything we put our minds to. We can live out our dreams, become anything and everything we want to be. The possibilities are truly endless. NO ONE can take that from us. Who knew we could take so much from a tall tale? :) I've included a link to a song about John Henry, if you have a few minutes to sit and hear the story I'm sure you'll enjoy it as much as we did.
Until tomorrow.....