| | The Eastern Bluebird eggs have hatched, and as long as a predator doesn't interfere, there will be a little bit more beauty in our part of the world soon. ELLA's family has this bluebird house at their place, and we've been watching the eggs for a little while now. They think these hatched on April 14, and although they don't look like much, they will grow into the delicate beauty of our state bird. In the same week, I received this picture of an interesting lizard from LANDON. That's a chubby little thing, isn't it (the lizard, not LANDON)? |
While we're waiting for birds to mature and lizards to do whatever lizards do, why not tackle the lesson sets in the HOGGATTEERS@HOME lesson collection? The 19th lesson set is now available, and it is an important one. Not only is this the last episode of Liberty's Kids, but it is also the point at which we establish the United States government. We'll also explore a little more about the then-future president, James Madison, and his wife Dolley. Here are the things we cover in Set 19:
- Revolutionary events: the Philadelphia Convention and the War of 1812
- checks and balances
- three branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial
- two Revolutionary characters: James and Dolley Madison
- reading comprehension
- using metric measurements and area models to represent tenths greater than one
- bonus content: read aloud, science, and art
Lesson Set 20 follows, as well, with a bit of information about another of our founders, Dr. Benjamin Rush:
- a Revolutionary character: Dr. Benjamin Rush
- medical approach during the Revolution: bloodletting
- yellow fever and response to pandemic
- modern psychiatry
- reading comprehension
- reading fluency
- representing mixed numbers using place value, number lines, and expanded form
- bonus content: art, read aloud, and science
And finally, with Lesson Set 21, we lay our first president to rest:
- Revolutionary characters: George and Martha Washington, Dr. James Craik, Tobias Lear, Henry Lee, and others
- a post-Revolutionary event: George Washington's funeral
- using meters to represent hundredths
- bonus content: read aloud, science, and art
