Snapshot Summary, March 5-9, 2012 week 20

Snapshot Summary, March 5-9

 This week we labeled the rivers on our salt dough map. We will be using it as part of our study of the Corps of Discovery.

 We have actually started our study of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 

Easy-to-Make Plains Indians Teepee Village (Dover Children's Activity Books)

They especially loved making and playing with the paper Sioux village.
It is a xerox copy that I was given years ago.

 We made paper pizzas...

 and then played math games with them.

 With the Iditarod going on this week, we added a page in our Geography Album for Alaska

and learned about the Inuit Indians...

 and we received a wonderful package of goodies from Louisiana. I will show you more about it next week.

We went for a nature walk in the spring weather and Quentin took all of the pictures and cropped them himself. I love the Indian corn from last fall in the background behind the miniature daffodils. 

We experimented and played with invisible inks just because Quentin was curious about them.

 We also experimented with static electricity

making electroscopes, charging by conduction and by induction and learned about Ben Franklin's experiments with electricity.

We have been reading The Long Winter and

Naya Nuki , a story about two Shoshoni girls who were captured at age 11 by another Indian tribe and taken 1,000 miles away. Naya Nuki escapes from her captors several months later and the story tells of her experiences while making her way back home alone. The other girl caputured was Sacajawea, who gets sold to a white fur trapper, and eventually becomes the wife of  Charbonneau and joins the Corps of Discovery.