I'm also finding that come Fridays, while I still want to maintain a school fashion type day, I'm more apt to try and make it fun-schooly type things than actual sit down by the book lessons! We all seem to get so much more from it. Yes, they still finish up any unfinished work from the week, but I put in more fun stuff, which makes them finish up the week's work much better.
Middlest's Daisy troop hadn't planned on doing any Journeys as a troop but they were free to do them individually! For us they seem to explain and offer more to put the ideas of the Promise and Law to work in her mind! I have worked with the Cadette Troop on their Journeys and the way they are set up seems to beat the life and soul out of them! I hate working on them as a troop (in the older grades) as they become just another task to get done and breeze through, even though the material isn't meant to be breezed through! If you get my meaning. At the beach the middlest worked on Between Earth and Sky! And her older sister is now doing the 3 Cheers with the Daisy troop in support of her Bat project for her Silver!! The only one left was the Daisy Garden - so we started that today! Middlest will be responsible for helping little flat of Chives, Cilantro, Onions, Dill and 2 kinds of lettuce get started. While we read through the Daisy Garden book and come up with a Take Action Project as well!
Since it's still a school day, I pulled out a fun project that I had been planning to use for a Science lesson later, but it fit in nicely here today so we ran with it. It is a Space Age plant set, where you grow Cucumber, Tomato and Basil seeds in a gel, so you can see the roots form and then you can plant them in your garden. Here they are all planted - the gel makes this look cool and science-y! :)
Once planted we put the gel filled containers with seeds into a dark place until they sprout. By planting both at the same time, we're hoping to see what is happening with the seeds and relate it back to what is happening under the dirt in our "Daisy" flat. While it would have been better to bring this out when our curriculum is studying plants, I figured I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity now! - cause if I did, we'd never get to use it!
Things I learned!
I learned that my oldest likes to absorb information and then show what she knows by explaining to her siblings. I learned that my middlest is interested in anything I throw at her as long as it is neat and new and different. I learned that she also likes to be the center or focus of what is happening. I learned that my youngest doesn't really care what we're doing, but rather prefers to be included in what we are doing and is more about the process than the final product!
Now to figure out ways to apply what we've learned! :)
