Where has the time gone? It is the middle of October and I haven't blogged in quite some time!! Life has been happeining and at a very high pace around here. So far this month we have studied one of Luke's least favorite spiecies, spiders! He hates them. We read "Sophie's Masterpiece" and pulled our other lessons out of this book with the help of HSS. For Social Studies we delved into the 7 wonders of the world and speculated how thses this could have come to pass. We attempted a few of them with blocks as well. We made an "Itsy Bitsy" spider book in the correct sequence of the song. We also had fun singing and acting out the song! We had a long list of new vocabulary words; wondorus, incredible, masterpiece, swatted, scampered, scuttled, exhausted, and wonderment. We made a list of all of Spohie's homes and what gift she tried to make each owner. We also had a review of personification. On Wed. we discussed and discoverewd the art of weaving. We weaved a placemat with orange and yellow consruction paper then laminated it, Luke was quite pround. We also had a discussion on "masterpieces" and we explored some of the famous masterpieces. His favorite was "Jungle With A Lion" by Rousseau. His least favorite was Mona Lisa by da Vinci. We discussed the geometric shapes in the webs the spider spun. We continued to work with MUS building in the concepts of units and combining them. We made spider webs with plastic spiders on them and Luke even decided to draw a few spiders himself even though they are not his favorite thing. The coolest thing is that there is a gardern spider right outside our living room window that has been busy weaving and eating in preperation for her babies!!