Form Drawing and Social Studies

Form drawing is something that we look forward to doing every week. We draw forms during circle time on Friday mornings first on chalkboards, and then with crayons on paper. We draw as we tell stories.

Sometimes, our form drawings relate to our social studies learning. For example, when we were learning about Medieval castles, we drew a line that looked like parapets and told a story about a king and queen.

The picture at the top was drawn while telling stories about Africa in the Middle Ages. We drew the picture below this past week as we told a story about the Aztecs.

Meal Verse

We prepare and eat at least one lunch that relates to each social studies block (pictures above feature: Jewish charoset from the Diaspora, Medieval peasant/servant meal served in a castle, Moorish feast, Medieval European monk's meal). We love to eat together as a family! During lunch, we start with a meal verse.

Ricky, Joey and Wilson have been entrenched in botany adventures this year, so they made up a poem about a seed becoming a tree, then growing fruit that we will eat. With all of the recent rain, we've been talking a lot about rainbows and colors...also included in the poem!

The poem became a song, and then we added gentle movements to it. At some point, we'll get a video clip of it here on our blog.

Syrendell Meal Verse - From the Earth

From the Earth a seed is born

Sun and rain, in the morn

Grows a tall and happy tree

Lots of shade for you and me

Rainbow-colored sweet fruits grow

Pick them when they're ripe and low

Smell and taste their sugar sweet

Thank you, Earth, for this treat