This is what we will be studying for this term:
Bible Song: O, Be Careful
Nature Study: Farm Animals (rabbit, horse, goat, cow, pig, herding dog, sheep, chicken)
Composer: Aaron Copeland
Habit: Self-Control
Folk Song: This Land is Your Land
Poetry Recitation: personal choice
Picture Study: Grandma Moses
We meet every other week and on the week we don't meet we go on a field trip. Our first field trip was to the pet store to see the rabbits. The owners were super friendly and gave a great talk about the care of the domestic rabbit. The kids were able to feed and pet the rabbits and I came very close to purchasing one...(they are only 30$ and can be litter box trained:)). Just a few interesting facts about rabbits: their teeth never stop growing, they can scream when they are scared, and you will know a mommy rabbit is pregnant if she grows a beard:) (she grows a big ball of fur on her upper chest and pulls the fur out and uses it for a nest for her babies). When we met for our class we studied the cottontail rabbit, which is the one that you see in your yard eating the vegetables from your garden! They then could draw a picture in their nature journal of the domestic or wild rabbit- whichever they thought more interesting. One really funny thing in our research of rabbits is that we found out the world's biggest rabbit is 2 inches taller than my oldest son and only weighs 3 lbs. less than him. You can see a picture of it here. The smallest rabbit is the Columbia Basin Pygmy rabbit and you can see some sweet pictures of them here. In adulthood they still only weigh less than 1 lb. Here are a few pictures of our first week back. Learning sure is fun at The Cottage:)
1 comment:
yay for the group! & that pic of jonas with the rabbit is soooo cute!
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