Thursday February 13

Yesterday was the usual.  Physio for Nate, music for Gigi.  Nathan was not feeling great, his body worn out from yesterday so he didn't play hockey, we sat and watched Genevieve play.  Nathan made the choice to not play, it was difficult for him, when I asked him to get ready he was crying, could not get ready, he didn't know why he was feeling the way he was.  But he was able to figure it out and say he was too tired to play, and that was the problem.  

Thursday- we had two homeschooling friends stay the night with us, we took them home after hockey.  

We got to start are moving beyond the page study today after I ran to the library to pick up the books. 

Tornado- intro.  We discussed alternate titles for the book, each of the kids came up with a different title by looking at the picture.  I talked about what the book was going to be about.  The kids then drew a picture of a tornado, as I talked to them about the science of how a tornado forms.  They than added a few sentences  about tornados to there picture. 

Nathan's sentences 

Nathan's tornado drawing including people flying in the tornado

Genevieve's tornado

Gigi's writting, oops my phone turned it upside down

We discussed where tornado alley is and coloured a map, we also found it on the globe.  

After they were done they did a puzzle of canada together. Nathan said ahh I'm naked.  

Next up we went to the board and discussed all the weather words we knew.  I tied in a little if our arctic study by discussing how the Inuit have many words for snow in their language, we discussed it was because they have done all the time but it was because of survival needs as well.  

We next did a weather vocabulary sheet

Nathan, drew lines smart boy!

Genevieve's vocab work

I also got Nathan and Genevieve to read a book to their friends...