Making good use of a snow day

Enjoying our study on Nova Scotia p.83-91 of Geography -Province to Province.

We are enjoying covering Nova Scotia this week or so. Some highlights are fishing,the land,Study on the Blue Nose,the children were affected by watching Donna Ward's book and video set,Pit pony. It follows a turn of the century Cape Breton boy, who must fill his fathers boots and go down into the mines. Mining,death,community,child labor,disease(rats) Cape Breton History.

Bird watch..identifying warblers from our property.

Kellen..bigger and smaller dolls

French oral Dialogue

Aidan & Kellen listening to First Start French

Sochi 2014 lapbooks and links.

http://www.sochi2014.com/en/ceremonies-video-ceremoniya-nagrazhdeniya We watched this video on the making of the medals. #  precious metals, measurements, braille, design and so much more.
We also watched various youtube videos on the music of the Sochi games. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG1iLMi0Do0 the children's choir was beautiful!

 

 

                                                      Mary  outer cover of Sochi 2014 Lapbook
                                                      (Mary enjoyed doing Bing searches on Bing.
                                                       She loved the medals and athletic information.
                                                      Mary  put a lot of  care into glueing and placement
                                                       in keeping with her artisticness)

 

Mary inner cover of Sochi 2014 Lapbook

(Mary and I tried to get Aidan to put the Russian dolls

 on his lapbook, but no success! Mary loved comparing the

mascots from Sochi 2014 to our own Vancouver Olympics, as well drawing them too.

On the left there is a chart on how many medals each country

was awarded, in keeping with her competitive spirit.

 

                                               Aidan outer cover of Sochi 2014 Lapbook
                                               (Aidan chose all of the printouts from research  on the
                                               Internet,, mostly Bing searches. He enjoyed the print out
                                               on statistics. We had much discussion on the map of Sochi and
                                                the surrounding Black Sea and locations of Ukraine and Russia.
                                               

                                           Aidan inner cover of Sochi 2014 Lapbook
                                           (Aidan especially enjoyed finding the mascots, and using
                                            the Coke ad. I was really pleased that he especially wanted
                                            Paralympic mascots in his lapbook,

After having just given each other spell tests for LA's the kids dig into their Donna Ward. We are at Nova Scotia in our cross country trek.