Sack Summer Session of Sensational Learning Fun Project One

We just wrapped up day 180 of our school year!  We are moving on to what I like to call the Sack Summer Session of Sensational Learning Fun!  This will be a time to get to those projects that I read about on various blogs and websites and never have the time to try with the kids!  

Our first project will be this:

 We have our canvas painted!  Updates to follow.

Junior Ranger Gopher Badge

We love State Parks!  We set a goal a few years ago to visit all of the Georgia State Parks as a family.  There is just something about the great outdoors! We love to geocache nnd lots of the parks now have caches placed in them.  It's really fun and gets the kids moving!  This up coming week we plan to work on a new badge that the parks dept. has come out with.  It's called the Junior Ranger Gopher Badge! You  choose from a list of 16 different badge requirements that will get you outdoors and help you learn about nature. You can download the booklet here or ask for it at your local GA state park office!  Wish us luck! 

Coupon for the Troops

Don't toss those expired coupons or the ones you wont use!! GIve them to a worthy cause: Coups For Troops: The Carolinas! They will go to military families that can use them within SIX months of expiration on base.  What are great way to support our heroes!  Your trash is their treasure!

Volcano Study

So far we have watched Volcano: Nature's Inferno  by National Geographic on Netflix instant streaming.

We love united streaming here in our house! It's free educational videos for educators from GPB.  We watched:

Reading Rainbow Hill of Fire

Save-ums!: Save That Ant / Find That Pet Rock

The Magic School Bus: Blows Its Top

(Ms. Frizzle presents the kids with the missing piece to their gigantic Earth puzzle--an island that hasn't been discovered yet. Both Dorothy Ann and Carlos want to be first to discover the island so they can name it, but when they reach the spot where it's supposed to be, all they see is the sea. It takes a run-in with an explosive underwater volcano to help them understand how the earth makes new landforms.)

 

Rocks: The Solid Earth Materials: Part 01 (With the help of a Rock Wizard and a little imagination, students discover rocks on Earth. They earn that the earth is made up of different types of rocks and that rocks are made of minerals. Students will discover the ways different types of rocks are formed and many of the properties of rocks and minerals, such as size, shape, color, and texture.)

The girls and I plan to make a model volcano and try various types of explosions in it.  they wanted to try out the baking soda and Vinegar one right away, so we tried it in a cup and added some red food coloring!

 We made our own volcanos online (over and over) using this website.

We worked on our lapbooks from homeschool share.  We did the vocabulary folders, the types of rocks mini book, and What's inside the Earth.

Lots more fun to come!!

Volcano Unit Study

.We are getting set for a new unit study here at Sack Academy

This is what we hope to learn over the next few weeks:

What is a volcano
.Facts about volcanoes
.About the ring of fire
.Inside a volcano
.Types of volcanoes
.Parts of a volcano
.About the earth's plates
.What causes a volcano
.About the earth's crust/what's inside the earth
.How volcanoes were named
.Warning signs of a volcano
.The hazards of an erupting volcano
.Mount Vesuvius eruption
.Mout St Helen's eruption
.Vocabulary used for volcanoes
.Types of rocks from volcanoes
Games and Activities: 

Magic school Bus Online Game

Volcano Kit (picked this up at walgreens for 1.74, looks like it got some bad reviews, hope it works out for us)

We plan to work on the lapbook at homeschool share and explore the links found here

If you have any books or other ideas for us I would love to hear them!

Earth Day Puffy Paint Project!

I found this cute idea at No Time for Flash Cards.  The site tells you how to make puffy paint from glue and shaving cream!  We had a great time with this!

We used shave gel because that is what we had on hand.  It seemed to work just fine.

The more we mixed the more our mixture grew! We had to move it to a larger bowl.

The aftermath!

We had alot of paint left so I let them go to town on the driveway with it!

Emma loved this part!  She is our little artist and also love to get messy! 

Try it and see how much fun you can have!

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