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Science Sunday: Apply it to life

October 21, 2012 Ticia 10 Comments

 

 

This week we started our chapter about the cat family.  Within the first 3 pages of the chapter, the kids were telling me all about what Aunt Tara needs to do to help her cat.

 

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Being the good homeschooling Mom that I am, I decided they needed to write down their advice for Aunt Tara and gave them a word bank of useful words.

 

Can you guess what the advice was related to?

write advice for pet owners

Aunt Tara,

Next time your cat brings a mouse throw half of it away and give half to your cat.

Superman

They learned bringing a dead animal to you is a sign of respect in the cat world, and they will feel incredibly insulted if you do not eat their gift.

 

write letters with what you learned

 

Of course we had to talk a little bit.  At first Batman was suggesting she actually EAT THE MOUSE!

Aunt Tara,

Next time Pixie brings you a mouse throw part of it away and give the rest to Pixie.

love, Batman

 

combine science and writing

Princess changed her answer.  Originally Aunt Tara was to throw the whole thing away.

Aunt Tara,

Next time Pixie brings a mouse to you throw a little away.

 

write a letter about what you learned to teach your friends

 

Next time you’re assigning reports or projects, think beyond the normal science report or summarize the chapter.  Make it real to them and bring it home.  Help a friend know how to interact with their pet.  Warn people going camping about what they might see.

 

Let’s see what others did this week:

Each week I’m spotlighting a few posts that were shared previously.  Many posts get linked up later in the week and they don’t always get as many clicks as they deserve, so I’m trying to spotlight a few every week.

Source: teachbesideme.com via Ticia on Pinterest

 

 

Teach Beside Me has a great post about air for kiddos.  She does some of my favorite experiments in that area.

Source: agreaterhand.blogspot.com via Ticia on Pinterest

 

Over at Academy at a Thousand Oaks she shared all about their space unit, including a yummy idea for the layers of the earth.

 

Dottie’s Homeschool Universe has a great batch of posts about geology.

 

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reading and writing, science land animals, Science Sunday, writing, zoology

Comments

  1. Priya says

    October 21, 2012 at 8:02 am

    That is so funny. lol

    Reply
  2. Tanya says

    October 21, 2012 at 8:38 am

    Cracking up at your kids’ advice! This is a really good idea though– to use writing out advice as a writing & learning activity, that is… not sharing mice with your cat 😉

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      October 22, 2012 at 5:53 pm

      Their advice cracked me up too. I just laughed and laughed at their first suggestions.

  3. Wonder Mom says

    October 22, 2012 at 10:16 pm

    What THOUGHTFUL (and a little disgusting) children you have… :0)

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      October 22, 2012 at 10:17 pm

      I know. Do you have any idea how hard it was to keep a straight face as Batman suggested eating the mouse? Or Superman suggesting she take a knife and cut it in half? Yeah, I struggled so hard not to laugh.

  4. Joy says

    October 23, 2012 at 10:59 pm

    Ticia, I tried putting your button on my post, but it wasn’t working for some reason. I will try again tomorrow. I just didn’t want you to think I had forgotten to put it on my post, like I did the last time I linked up!

    Reply
  5. Natalie says

    October 27, 2012 at 10:30 am

    I think your writing assignments are very clever. Love the toothless smiles. Our teeth are all well in place still.

    Reply

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