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| Topics: Art: Various arctic related crafts Bible: Let Your Light Shine Geography: the Arctic Language Arts: Writing ideas, filling out lapbook information, Miracles on Maple Hill novel study Literature: Miracles on Maple Hill Math: visualizing a million Music (and history): Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Science: the science behind the seasons, solstices and equinoxes, perihelion, aphelion, direct and indirect sunlight, earth’s orbit, capillary action in plants, polar animals | |||||
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| Spine Books | |||||
 The Science of Seasons | Have your kids see if they can find the pages that match this week’s activities as they do them. | ||||
 The Science of Seasons Learn-and-Play Activities | If your globe is dry, you can do this next activity: p. 39 Flashlight experiment | p. 40-41 Globe experiment, the solstices and equinoxes, etc. | p. 42 Perihelion and aphelion | ||
| Science Reading | |||||
 Explore Spring | Activity: Carnation Creation | Activity: Leave the Leaves | |||
 | Read today. | ||||
| Other Books | |||||
 Miracles on Maple Hill | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 14 (End of book!) | |
 | Note: Kids need to understand just what 94 million miles means when learning about how far away the sun is. This is a GREAT book to explain the concept of a million. | Read today. | |||
| Notebooking and Printables | |||||
| Equinox worksheet What are solstices and equinoxes? worksheet (You must sign up for a free trial to access this worksheet.) Observe the moon printable Free Easy Arctic and Inuit Science Lapbook & Unit Study Polar Animals Lapbook SeaWorld Arctic Animals teacher’s guide (with maps, printables, and activities) There are quite a few interesting activities that explore different concepts. There are also arctic animal cutout cards. K-3 guide 4-8 guide Writing ideas: ✿ Copywork/handwriting: Choose sentence(s) from any of this week’s books to copy. ✿ Write about a polar animal. ✿ Fill out lapbook materials. ✿ Create a listening program or a pretend concert handout for Vivaldi’s music. ✿ Explain the difference between the Arctic and the Antarctic. ✿ Write a story about what you would do if someone gave you a million dollars. ✿ Describe one of the characters or scenes in Miracles on Maple Hill. Scholastic Teachables: Click here for a variety of polar printables. Click here for a variety of Arctic printables. The Arctic & Antarctic Mini-Unit Polar Regions: Animal Habitats Double-Sided Wheel | |||||
| Crafts and Activities | |||||
| Arctic animal crafts (choose 1) | |||||
| Extras | |||||
| Bible | Let Your Light Shine Video: Hillsong Kids – Let Your Light Shine Video: “This Little Light Of Mine” | ||||
| Video | Seasons song Use a globe and flashlight to demonstrate day and night on Earth Classroom Demonstrations: The Seasons demo 2 | CARNATIONS RAINBOW COLOR CHANGING ♥ DIY SCIENCE EXPERIMENT ♥ Simple & Fun | SciShow Kids: The Longest Day of the Year: The Solstice! Winter at the North Pole! | Winter Science | SciShow Kids To the Arctic (full-length documentary) | SciShow Kids: Happy Equinox! TED-Ed: The Arctic vs. the Antarctic | TED-Ed: Why should you listen to Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”? Four Seasons ~ Vivaldi What Does 1 Million Jelly Beans Look Like? | 1 to 1,000,000 for Kids Science Behind Perihelion |
| Online | Earth’s orbit and daylight animation and info This is an EXCELLENT animation. Speed it up with the slider and look at the globe on the left to see how the sunlight changes on the Earth. Vivaldi and the Four Seasons Teacher Resource Kit (Scroll down) Click here if the link on the page doesn’t work. | ||||