Pioneer/Westward Expansion week #3 (March 9)

Opening:

Song: Hyrum
Prayer: McKade
Scripture:  Melody
Pledge:  Josh
Knowledge Share: Lauren
Show and Tell: Tommy

Joke of the Day: Vilate

Snack: Talmage

Treasurer: Emma

Quiet Toy for Read Aloud: Fielding

 

Read at Home:

    Start reading Little Britches. Read through chapter 6, "We Become Real Ranchers."

    Read The California Gold Rush: An Interactive History Adventure.

Poem: Review the first two stanzas and learn the third of The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet

 The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet

by Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873-1904)

Little Miss Muffet discovered a tuffet,

    (Which never occurred to the rest of us)

And, as ’twas a June day, and just about noonday,

    She wanted to eat -- like the best of us:

Her diet was whey, and I hasten to say

    It is wholesome and people grow fat on it.

The spot being lonely, the lady not only

    Discovered the tuffet, but sat on it.

A rivulet gabbled beside her and babbled,

    As rivulets always are thought to do,

And dragon flies sported around and cavorted,

    As poets say dragon flies ought to do;

When, glancing aside for a moment, she spied

    A horrible sight that brought fear to her,

A hideous spider was sitting beside her,

    And most unavoidably near to her!

Albeit unsightly, this creature politely

    Said, “Madam, I earnestly vow to you,

I’m penitent that I did not bring my hat. I

    Should otherwise certainly bow to you.”

Though anxious to please, he was so ill at ease

    That he lost all sense of propriety,

And grew so inept that he clumsily stept

    In her plate -- which is barred in Society.

Song: Practice our song for the play. 

Unit Study Year plan:  We are studying 4 time periods this year.  We have 6 weeks in each time period.  The 6th week we will have a time period party.  We want you to come dressed like that day and age.  We would also like you to use these 6 weeks to make something from that time period.  While you are learning, decide on something you want to create and do it! You will bring it to show on the party day.

Some ideas:  make a tri-corn hat, dip a candle, make a spoon, sew an apron, make a haversack, make moccasins, make authentic food, whittle a horse, etc...

Unit project:  Continue to work on a project of this time period.  This is week 3 of 6.  Get to work and have fun!

REMINDER:  We want you to do all the work you are able to do.  You can collect Van-bucks for all the homework you do.  You can earn more Van-bucks when you give us a commercial for any book you finished reading this school year or over the summer.