Learning with Five In A Row: Miss Rumphius Literature Unit

5.01.2013

"One day, I too will live by the sea...  I too, will travel to faraway places..."  said Alice.  "That is wonderful, Alice, but there is a third thing you must do...."

"You must make the world more beautiful"

Love!
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Miss Rumphius is such a lovely story in so many ways!  It is a great reminder that we aren't just to be... but we must also do something to give back; we must leave a legacy.

Miss Rumphius Activities

It was also rich in learning activities!  One of the things I have loved about our literature based Five In A Row studies have been that in all our activities, the book becomes part of us.  It makes a beautiful story so much richer because you are applying things from the story by learning, experimenting, reading more-- the story comes to life and you start digging deeper in other stories as well.


Social Studies:

Found Maine on our US map & labeled 4 Oceans

Completing Landform Puzzles from our Beginning Geography workbook; we've gotten TONS of use out of this workbook lately.



Language Arts:

 "Synonym" Roll match: One of the vocabulary words was "Sea," which was a synonym for ocean, so we did this fun activity with other words from the story.  Don't mind my gross baking pan : )  The cinnamon bun template came from Mrs. Bi-Polar Pirate

Miss Rumphius Activities

Later in the week I made a Tic Tac Toe vocabulary board for T.  The goal was to listen for the words in the story to make four in a row, but he ended up covering the whole board : )  

Miss Rumphius Activities

Miss Rumphius worked in a library, which had your old school CARD CATALOUG system!!  That is dated!  Makes me feel a bit old!  After reading, "Check It Out" by Gail Gibbons, I made a scavenger hunt T took to the library to test out his skills!

Miss Rumphius Activities


Math:

The math lesson was about a bushel & peck, and focused on the broader subject of Volume/ Capacity; this idea came from Frugal Fun for Boys.  We got out the beans and several containers and T compared two containers at a time to see which one held more.

He LOVED this!!  What is it about my children and playing with beans?  You definitely will not see them eating beans!
Miss Rumphius Activities

Miss Rumphius Activities


Art:

Lupine Watercolor Art
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Science:

Miss Rumphius planted Lupines, and we planted Sunflower seeds!  I don't have a better picture, but you can see the seeds are starting to sprout here!  We planted five and three of them have roots, stems, and leaves!  We used a DVD case to "grow" these in so we could see the process, now we just need to transport them outside somewhere!

Miss Rumphius Activities

UPDATE: Check out my Wordless Wednesday {Attack of the Giant Sunflowers} to see them now!

Celery/ Food Coloring Experiment:

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After a couple of hours, the leafy part of the celery were colored!  I believe blue was the fastest!

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Cutting the celery to see the veins "drinking" the colored water

Miss Rumphius Activities

Flowers Express Lapbook from A Journey Through Learning; can't beat a lapbook for $1!!  

It covered: 
  • Parts of a Flower
  • Types of Flower Buds
  • Parts of a Plant
  • Things Plants Need
  • also  included several flower coloring pages!
Miss Rumphius Activities

Miss Rumphius Activities

On the back of the Lapbook, I attatched a seed/ plant matching activity from Homeschool Share.  Our Usborne Science book had some great interactive explanations on plants, too!

Miss Rumphius Activities

Just loved this book!!  Hope you do too!!

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