Paper Mache Earth

We started a great new Geography program this week called Expedition Earth from Confessions of a Homeschooler. The kids learned about maps and the continents. They also made a paper mache Earth.

Heres the glue and water mixture. It was messy.
Heres Eric putting the newspaper strips on his balloon.

He was concentrating so hard.

Both the balloons are done and drying.

The next day they painted them.

The kids have never done an art project like this. They really enjoyed it!

John had to add some white to represent Antartica. LOL

Science

For our Science I have been using “How the Earth Works” for our Earth Science. It covers just what the boys need to know as well as some experiments. I basically plan their entire curriculum. I try to include some reading, note taking, writing, research, activities, art and an experiment. It seems to be working well. We will be using “How the Universe works” as well as some NASA curriculum I was able to get FREE. (Gotta love free) We plan on starting with the planets this month, then next month move in to rockets. My husband has been dying to do rockets with the boys. We are devoting an entire month to rockets, if we can. The boys will be making some from scratch and we will try to purchase one from Hobby Lobby. The NASA curriculum we have has worksheets, badges, budget forms and everything they use for their planning, tracking and such. It should be exciting. This might take more than a month. LOL