FOCUS: The Civil War- Battle of Gettysburg- soldiers and nurses
EXPLORE: playing with doctors' kits
LITERATURE: "Gettysburg" by James Bow and "You Wouldn't Want to be a Nurse During the American Civil War" by Kathryn Senior
MUSIC: continued with our surprise song, reviewed rhythms of half note, quarter note, eighth note, sixteenth note, quarter rest, and half rest.
PROJECT: cutting soldier paper figures for boys and nurse figures for girls. Medical kits to emphasize helping.
QUESTIONS to ask your child: What were the northern and southern states fighting about? (slavery).
11/4/14
FOCUS: Age of Industry
EXPLORE: three groups build machines (a blender with gears, a rubber band powered car, and a well with pulley).
LITERATURE: Viewed illustrations of mills and looms in "The Bobbin Girl" by Emily Arnold McCully and read "Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight became an inventor" by Emily Arnold McCulley. Kids also viewed pictures of mills in Manchester. The class discussed simple machines (inclined plane, lever, pulley, wheel and axle, and screw) while presenting each group's discovery project. We talked about Manchester's role in the textile industry and watched a model waterfall turn a turbine to explain power behind simple machines.
PROJECT: Children colored a picture of a mill building and made a "Simple Machines" board with examples (TO GO HOME NEXT WEEK).
QUESTIONS to ask your child: What powered the mills in Manchester? (Water, River, or Waterfall). What did they make in the mills? Was the cloth made "by hand" or "by machine" ?
We are loving these kids- They are such a joy to learn with each week!
