Katie Grace's Main Lesson: Farming

We're halfway through the first week of our farming unit. I don't have a whole lot to show you, but what we have, I'll share.

We're using this for our main lesson book, so the first order of business was to start decorating the cover.

Next order of business: a title page.
We've been continuing with our multiplication facts while working on this unit, and are telling lots of farm stories to go along with it.
Katie Grace has also created a farm family that will serve as our frame story throughout the unit. I forgot to take a picture, but there's a mom and a dad and a baby, a toddler, a six-year-old brother and 8-year-old twins. They all help take care of our farm together!

We started of by discussing cycles-- the seasons cycle, and now, the life cycle of the bean. We'll learn a few more plant cycles and then talk about composting, and after that we'll talk about the life cycles of various animals.

We've done a few practical projects so far:
Making a toppings bar to go along with yogurt at lunch. Eventually, we're hoping to make our own yogurt and cheese!

And sewing gnomes and making beeswax fruits and veggies to fill our nature table cornucopia, together with Nicholas.

But our favorite project so far, making butter...




Unfortunately didn't turn out so well!

More on Katie Grace's farming unit next week, after we get the cream out of the carpet.