Batman’s report was on Manta Rays, those are by far his most favorite sea creature, and probably even animals in general. He has two stuffed Manta Ray dolls that he takes with him everywhere. He loves them. When we got the second one my Mom asked, “Are you sure he’ll play with it?” I just laughed at that question since it came after our spending the day at the zoo with 5 different visits to the manta ray encounter…….
Batman started off with his visual just being an empty water bottle with some string tape to it, but eventually he added more details and made something that more or less resembled a manta ray. It was a lot of fun to see.
Then he used the stapleless book to create a report, he wrote all about the various different rays you can find with one sentence about each. Sadly he’s absconded with his book, so I can’t show you the pictures.
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.
Learning Ideas shared some fun crafts for frogs. I’m thinking the origami jumping frog could make a great secondary science lesson, predicting how far it can jump.
Housing a Forest shared how to make a lid pop off a plastic bottle. As soon as I read the instructions I started thinking about all sorts of character applications for this.
It’s nice to see Almost Unschoolers again. Manta Rays are very cool.
I know, this has apparently been sitting in my draft folder for a while, and it was so much fun to see her post in my posts I’d picked out.
Something about kids writing reports gets me so giddy. Great work Batman!!
When I was linking I added the word “the” and it caused the link to not correctly work. I didn’t want to mess it up again so I left it. Thank you for sharing.
Me too. I love what they come up with to write about.
I’ll figure out your link to see what I can do.
Those frog crafts are cute! And I’m very intrigued about the character applications for the water bottle experiment!
Now I’ll have to go back to my Bible boards and see what I was thinking at the time I pinned it…….. I’d guess exploding under pressure and watching your words.
Manta Rays are amazing creatures. Nice job, boys 🙂
They are. Batman was so happy last week when he got to pet one.
I think you are the coolest Mom ever to let your kiddos learn based upon their passions!
Ha ha, it’s more of chase after them as they sprint ahead of me.
I thought at first that picture of batman holding up his plastic jug, that he was holding up a teapot. There is no better learning then when they are learning about something they are passionate about, even if so many times they truly are teaching us, everything they already know.
That’s for sure. He was having so much fun telling Jeff all about what he learned, it was great to see.