What We Studied
We had a big week full of snow and jazz!
LEGO creation of the Week
Literature and Poetry
We made progress with our read aloud and covered a few literature studies and Arthur read alouds.
Just Beyond the Very Very Far North by Dan Bar-el
A Snowflake Fell compiled by Laura Whipple
Little Penguins New Friend by Tadgh Bentley (Arthur read aloud)
Math
We continued working through Singapore Math 2A not quite finishing Unit 2 yet.
Social Studies
We had a slow history month, but did cover the Roman Republic.
Ancients in Their Own Words: Roman
The Ancient Romans by Cohn
The Ancient Romans by Shuter
Ancient Rome by Mack
Eyewitness Ancient Rome
The Genius of the Romans by
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Roman Soldier by David Stewart
We also did a mini unit on Groundhog Day on Tuesday. Arthur loved reading the books and recording the various groundhog’s predictions.
Groundhog Day by Julie Murray
Grumpy Groundhog by Maureen Wright
Groundhog’s Day Off by Robb Pearlman
Gregory’s Shadow by Don Freeman
Groundhog’s Runaway Shadow by David Biedrzycki
Science
Nothing formal, but we did so a decent amount of science with the Winter Unit Theme.
Art
We spent all of Saturday morning doing various winter themed crafts. We covered our big picture window with the completed projects!
Music
My favorite unit so far in homeschooling! I created a whole jazz unit for the month of February. Every week we are covering between 4 and 10 jazz artists. I have a giant stack of picture books featuring various artists and lots of music pieces notated. This is going to be a great month!
Jazz Music History by Kenny Abdo
Jazz by Walter Dean Myers (poems)
Welcome to Jazz by Carolyn Sloan
Jazz ABZ by Wynton Marsalis
How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz by Jonah Winter
Just a Lucky So and So by Lesa Cline-Ransome
When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat by Muriel Harris Weinstein
Born to Swing by Mara Rocklife
Jazz Age Josephine by Jonah Winter
Unit Theme
We finished penguins and our general winter theme this week. To wrap up everything, we watched two great Magic School Bus episodes about winter. Plus we did an experiment to see what liquids would freeze when places outside on the ~20 degree weather. Arthur got 4 out of the 6 predictions correct.
My Penguin Osbert by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Poles Apart by Jeanne Willis
Polar Bear Island by Lindsay Bonilla
Virgil and Owen Stick Together by Paulette Bogan
Glaciers by Larry Dane Brimner
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
Brownie Groundhog and the Wintry Surprise by Susan Blackaby
The Story of Snow by Mark Cassino
Freddie the Farting Snowman by Jane Bexley
Lucy Tries Short Track by Lisa Bowes
The Wildlife Winter Games by Richard Turner
Misc. - Random picture books read
Winter Waits by Lynn Plourde
Tracks in the Snow by Wong Herbert Yee
First Snow by Bomi Park
Crash, Splash, and Moo by Bob Shea
A Day So Gray by Marie Lamba
The Snow Day by Komako Sakai
Once Upon a Winter Day by Liza Woodruff
A Winter Walk by Lynne Barasch
One Mitten by Kristine O’Connell George
Whale Snow by Debby Dahl Edwardson
Snowy Farm by Calvin Shaw
Penguin and Moose by Hannah C Hall
White Snow Bright Snow by Alvin Tressalt
When the Snow is Deeper Than My Books are Tall by Jean Reidy
My Footprints by Bao Phi
Winter is the Warmest Season by Lauren Stringer
Kate Mim-Mim: Little Kate Riding Hood
How to Build a Snow Bear by Eric Pinder
Chapter Two is Missing by Josh Lieb
Highs
Saturday craft morning was a great success! It was a bit of work on my part, but pulling supplies and ideas earlier in the week made it less stressful than I anticipated. I’m thinking of making this a weekly or biweekly event.
Even though we didn’t do any field trips, we did manage to make it to the library. Love that place so much!
Lows
We were going to head to the zoo on Thursday or Friday, but snow and a drop in temperatures squashed that plan.
We had a bit of a regression with screen time this week. We need to find a better system…
Next Week
We should finish our read aloud Wednesday or Thursday and have another lined up. We’re hoping to cover the rest of Unit 2 and Unit 3 for math. Continuing with our jazz unit through the 1930s and 1940s. And our theme is split between Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day.
Next up on the TBR pile:
