Hi there! This week we’re working on M, N and O!

M

Today is M day!!!! The best day! We ate Mini Wheats and got on spelling & sight word tests so they got mineral sets!! First, we spent some time examining the minerals and deciding what properties we thought might be important. Then we learned about Mohs hardness scale, which is how the hardness of minerals is classified (talc is the softest at 1, and diamond is the hardest at 10) and also explored other mineral properties like streak color and shape (habit). The mineral sets came with lots of tools for experimenting with the minerals, like a nail, a streak plate and a magnifying glass. What’s a streak plate? It’s a small ceramic tile that you scratch minerals across. Many specimens will leave a distinctive color streak behind, which we can use to help ID the mineral!

We also learned how to count money. We’re starting with just identifying the coins and their values and soon we’ll work on adding up the value of the coins.

Day of the day – MARGARITA!!!!!

N

Today was “N”. We had Noosa yogurt for breakfast, learned about Narwhals, put together a US map & found all the states that start with N (there are 8 – can you name them without looking it up?). Then we did spelling & sight words, skip counting and workbook exercises doing adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers.

Drink of the day – Negroni!

O

It’s “O” day! We started our day with oatmeal and OJ and then learned about owls – how they hunt, special things about their wings, and identifying them by the calls that they make. We also watched videos about the amazing octopus, master of disguise. For art today we looked at paintings by Georgia O’Keefe. We saw how her work evolved with time and talked about the way that she drew her pictures and the colors that she used. Then we did watercolor drawings using O’Keefe’s paintings as inspiration. And of course spelling & sight words and Dreambox blah blah.

Drink of the day – Old Fashioned.

See you next week for P, Q and R!