A Storm in the Night

We have completed 2 of our Five in a Rows, Ping by Marjorie Flack and A Storm in the Night Mary Stolz.
My concern with FIAR is that I wasn't sure if Maximus would enjoy reading the same book five times in a row, and my suspections were right in some way.
The first unit study we did was Ping, and by the 3rd reading, Maximus said he didn't want to read it again, although I still read it for many reasons, other than that the obvious.

Next we did A Storm in the Night. Here are some of the things that we did,

Day 1, Social Studies/Geography. Since the book didn't really take place in a particular place, we discussed storms and tornadoes and where they originate, focusing mainly on the Atlantic ocean, but introducing all of the oceans. And we added our story disk to our timeline, on 1988, since this is when the book was written.
Day 2, Math- We talked about the shapes that were on Grandfather's bed that made up his quilt and made our own paper quilt. And Maximus made a jello dessert (blue for the sky, whip cream for the clouds, and edible glitter for rain), and did all the measuring.
Day 3, Science- We talked about our 5 senses and did an experience with a blind-fold to see how if you take away 1 of your senses, the others get stronger. We talked about how a storm starts and all the different types of clouds.
Day 4, Language arts- For LA, we talked about Onomatopoeia's in a story and dialogue (for future creative writing).
Day 5, Art- We talked about the important role of an Illustrator, and his medium. Maximus created his own image of 'a storm in the night', by using canvas paper and acrylic paints.
And the best part was, at the end of the week, we had a real thunderstorm happen and we were able to do some of the experiments such as smelling and listening to the storm blind-folded (again) and measuring the rain.

After the week was over, he said he was soo glad we were done. But, very interesting, was when River asked his daddy to read Ping that night for his bedtime story and Maximus said he wanted to read A Storm in the Night, so he could tell him about what all he has learned.
He didn't know I could hear, and that I was smiling big inside.


Could be the next, Leonardo Da Vinci
River was introduced to painting with watercolors and loved loved loved it!

Maximus measuring the water for his jello

and stirring for 2 minutes...

Yummy!

Here we are reading Ping on our camping trip. After reading, we talked about ducks, sources of light, such as the moon, the sun, candles, flashlights, etc. and we also talked about reflection of light, and witnessed these things many times on our weekend camping trip (which was my plan).

Happy Homeschooling!