Homeschool: St. Patrick's Day & Weather

Degen's folder! Both kids spent a lot of time working on their folders for this unit.

The kids LOVE this unit! We celebrate the whimsy of St. Patrick's Day and learn a lot about weather. Usually, this unit we would also sit down for a traditional (American-traditional) Irish dinner of corned beef, cabbage, potatoes & soda bread, but we had to postpone dinner this year because Kyrie had just had surgery (read about that in another post) and Darren was traveling for business. Still, the kids had a lot of fun!

Cutting practice

I make a vocabulary "book" like this for Degen for each unit. I do not expect him to read the words yet, but he says the names of the letters and practices writing them. I am also establishing the concept that letters make words and words have meanings. This has become one of his favorite activities during lesson time.

Kyrie hard at work. Kyrie spent a lot more time focusing on weather during this unit. We watched weather documentaries on Netflix and made several interactive books about weather concepts. 

Degen working on poster work during independent work time.

Some of the books we read for this unit.

Kyrie's folder! She spent a lot of time making her leprechaun village! She did a great job adding lots of details!

Kyrie spent a lot of her independent work time designing leprechaun traps. She used blocks and boxes and yarn and gold coins. One leprechaun took the coins she left, but didn't climb the ladder to the trap- sneaky leprechaun!