Lentil (FI♥AR)

Lentil by Robert McCloskey

February 4-8, 2013

"Lentil just wanted to sing so badly - but whenever he tried, the most horrible croak-like sound came out. He had an idea one day to get a harmonica and teach himself how to play. Soon he could play well, and he played everywhere and all down the streets - past the finest house which belonged to the great Colonel Carter; by the library, which was a gift of the great Colonel Carter; through the Carter Memorial Park; and on and on. As you know by now, Colonel Carter is a very important, generous, respected town figure. When he comes back to town after two years, everybody is excited except the grouchy Sneep. When Sneep tries to sabotage the welcome-home festivities, can Lentil save the day?" Rainbow Resources

This week for Five in a row we rowed Lentil. Which turned out to be a lot of fun with the lemon theme. We made lemonade, made our own Harmonicas, and did many experiments that had to do with our mouths.  

 

Day 1: Social Studies: Patriotism

•  Listened to She’ll be coming round the mountain


• Made a tongue map- We explored the concept of sweet, sour, bitter, and salty by trying little samples of salt, sugar, lemon juice, and cocoa.
  


• Watched Buddy Green play a harmonica at Carnegie Hall on Youtube- Which was pretty amazing how he made music with a harmonica good enough to play at Carnegie Hall.
  


• Located Ohio on our map

Day 2 Art

• Craft: Soap whittling


• Rock breath experiment- watch how the oxygen we blew into our lime (the chemical, not the fruit) water turned cloudy.
  


• Tasted lemons to see how mouths pucker from the sour- surprisingly the girls didn't have the reaction I thought we'd have.  Maybe our lemon was sweet.
  

 

 Day 3: Math

•  Sandwich fractions-  for lunch we cut our sandwich into 1/2's and then 1/4ths.
  

• Stuffy smellers experiment- Blindfolded we all tried cubed potatoes, apples, and yes onions all with our noses plugged.  It's surprising how our taste is affected by the sense of smell.
  

 

Day 4: Science

•  Hot and cold experiment-  Discovered that the warm orange juice didn't taste as sour as the frozen lemon juice.
  

 

Day 5:  Language arts

•  Watched lentil on Youtube

• Made lemonade for dinner

 



Math this week:

• Copy shapes and lines with our geoboards


• Fluttershy learned how to count to 50¢ using dimes.


• We also played grocery store where she got to pay for her items with her dimes.  Fun times.

 

Links to where we found our fun activities

• Watch Buddy Green at Carnegie Hall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjFwcZQila8
  


• Listen to She’ll be coming round the mountain on You tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1HtyPryGays


• Watch lentil video on Youtube video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mW4H68QrzI


• How to make homemade harmonicas http://mayamade.blogspot.com/2010/07/diy-harmonica.html
  


• Mouth experiment http://www.homeschoolfreebie.wholesomechildhood.com/feb-27-mouth-experiments/ 

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