Our Week With Ferdinand

Wow-we are rowing our very first book from FIAR Volume 2! As we have family living in Spain (a US expat) this seems like a good first choice. Oh, and the fact that we already had this book too!

Day 1: Social Studies
a. We read the book
b. We talked about the capital of Spain, the leaders, 3 major products, looked at pictures of Spain on the internet, found Spain on a map and talked about "neighbour" countries.
This week we will also color a Spanish flag for our lap book (our first one ever!)

Day 2: Social Studies
a. Read the book
b. We have talked about three types of sentences, identified them, made up our own and talked about what goes at the end of each.
c. We talked about repeating words in stories and thought about what repeated in our book this week.

Day 3: Art
1. We will read the book
2. Talk about the art of Dali (Spanish artist).
3. Look at a Dali work and do picture study (our first time!).
4. Talk about Humor in the book's art.

Day 4: Applied Math
1. Read book.
2. We are going to talk about how to measure using feet and inches.

Day 5: Science
1. Read book.
2. Talk about cork trees
3. Talk about treees