Here we are halfway through our 4th year of home school with our children. We are definitely enjoying it and looking forward to some awesome stuff for the second half of the year.
Our middle boy, who is at a 2nd grade level, is working on an Oceanography unit right now. (I'm using Evan-Moor's pocket book Ocean Habitats from the August Theme Pockets book to supplement.) It's a repeat study for me since our oldest has already gone through it once. My goal is to eventually have them studying the same material at different levels. For now it's fun to go back and try things again!
Today we're talking about tide pools. I found a fantastic video about hermit crabs. It shows a hermit crab changing shells. The video can be found here. We also did a little talking about painted shells and whether or not they should be used when keeping hermit crabs as pets. This site has some information about why not to use them.
We also talked about bat stars. What a fascinating creature! God is so creative! Monterey Bay Aquarium has some fun info about them.
Plan for the rest of the day is to watch 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and listen to Claude Debussy's La Mer!
Back to our day before it gets away!
Blessings on your home,
Erin
3 comments:
Oceanography was my favorite subject growing up! I still have some pocket books of my own with sea creatures and information on them that I can't bear to part with for no good reason. I used to study them all the time. I will bring them with me to church on Sunday if you'd like to have them around, I always loved them when I was little!
Brandy
I would love that! Thanks! We'll be sure to get them back to you when we're finished.
No problem! My kids aren't old enough to enjoy them yet, so I'm glad someone can! ;o)
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