With our theme this year being geography, we have been learning about maps and globes this first week of school. We have tons of books in our book basket that we found at the library on maps. We did a little experiment of sorts on the difference between flat maps and round globes. I had Hayden try to take a piece of paper and fit it around a ball. This was to show that a flat map cannot accurately reflect sizes and shapes of land as can the globe since the world we live on is shaped like the globe, a sphere. He was (maybe still) convinced (or just stubborn) that one day he will make it work! From there we took a grapefruit and I drew a (terrible) map of the world and then peeled it and asked the kids to piece it together to make a map. I forgot to take a picture of the whole grapefruit so they held it together for me in the pic above.
Here is the peeled globe.
Trying to flatten it out match it up.
And again, one determined fella!
Today, we studied our backyard habitat by roping off one square yard and observing what was in it. They found leaves, berries, bugs, a small piece of duct tape, and holes. We'll be taking weekly nature walks and making a leaf notebook later. Hayden was sidetracked for a moment as he tried to make his string barrier smoke. He even wrapped it around a twig.
Looking for berries until she spotted an ugly bug crawling toward her!
Just hanging out in his square - we are working through an "i can't do it" phase lately. What happened to "I can do it by myself"?
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