The kids were all decked out in their costumes, so no animal-care duties today! They absolutely loved being able to run around as cats and turtles and Dorothy from Wizard of Oz! I think this is one of my favorite things about teaching here on the farm every week. A lot of times homeschoolers have a difficult time finding a consistent group of peers to share holidays with like this. I love my job!
The students took turns reading and sharing their Farm Fusion creative writing assignments. The eagerness to jump up and read aloud has stayed strong!
I taught the class the difference between facts and opinions today using a pumpkin activity. The kids came up with different sentences about the pumpkin, and we sorted them into facts and opinions. Sometimes children can get confused with this! I mean, puppies ARE cute! It's a fact, right? By the end of the lesson, they had really come a long way in recognizing the difference! They'll be completing a writing assignment with facts and opinions at home so we can tie it in next week, as well!
We finally completed our fall projects! The kids added the yard trees to the foreground of their scenes. It was a little tricky, but they ended up really getting the hang of weaving in and out between the yarn branches!
We talked about their chapter book which involves being lost in Costa Rica. We reviewed the vocabulary words from this section of the book with a little crossword puzzle, and we showed off all of the amazing entries in our field guides! I actually took up the field guides to check their work, and they will get them back next week. This is not to formally "grade" them, but to help give guidance and feedback so that I am sure they are getting the most they can from the class!
The kids learned about state of being verbs. We practiced saying the words and recognizing their role in different sentences. This can be tricky! It's far easier to point out action verbs! They all did an awesome job with this. We'll be moving to linking verbs soon, so please be sure to complete the at home assignments to master state of being verbs at home.
The class needed to spend a little more time completing the activity on the six kingdoms of classification in their science notebooks at home, but we did move on to a wonderfully creepy lesson on viruses! They thought it was fascinating that viruses are not actually classified at all! They are not considered living things because although they contain genetic material, they are unable to replicate at all without taking over a host cell. In perfect Halloween fashion, I explained them as if they were creepy alien robots... or zombies! We went over the different parts of a virus and how the virus is able to replicate in a host. They added this information to their science notebooks. We'll be learning more about them this week!
Information about the big field trip in April to the Rock Eagle 4H Center will be going out soon!
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