February held many a fun school activity around here: Groundhog Day, China studies for Chinese New Year, and our month-long Black History Month studies.
For Groundhog Day, we read a little about the history of this tradition, and we watched the replay of Punxsutawney Phil making his prediction. Then we made, admittedly, the most low-maintenance groundhog craft ever.
We watched the Disney Nature documentary on animals in China (which included pandas, obvs), studied the significance of dragons and made our own "dancing dragons," and read a number of books about the Chinese zodiac and Chinese New Year traditions. We also read the novel Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin, which was a HUGE hit with this crew. They absolutely loved it.
And, of course, we did normal school things:
Fine motor skills activities
Sight word games
More sight word games
Claire set up her own classroom for teaching Lily some lessons.
Preparing Valentine's cards for their co-op friends
Pattern play
I don't have any pictures of our Black History Month adventures, but I wish I had. It's one of our favorite times of the school year every year. I'll try to do better next year, because it really it such a great unit for us!
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