Catholic Schoolhouse Tour 3 Week 8

Let Galileo inspire those students this week, with this great quote.

I know I’m always telling my own kids to use their brains!

Religion/ Math/ Language Arts

Keep going in your Saint Martin de Porres Fun Pack this week!

Saint Martin de Porres Fun Pack

Religion:

You shall not steal is an easy commandment to teach. Many students learn at an early age not to take something that does not belong to them. Here is a cute coloring page for your younger ones.
Print the next flag for your 10 Commandments banner:

10 Commandments Garland 7th Commandment

Math:

The memory work this week is about how the three angles of a triangle always add up to 180degrees. 180degrees is a strait line. So you could show this rule by cutting out some triangles. Draw arcs in the three angles, cut them off, and then line them up on a separate piece of paper to show how they add to 180degrees.

Language Arts:

Check out my ideas for practicing your articles in the CSH Year 1 Week 8 post and the CSH Year 2 Week 8 Post.

Music

I found this great printable phamplet with plenty to read and do about Mozart at artsalive.com. Check it out! You could print part of it as quiet reading time, or print just the kids activities at the end. It seems like it could be useful across a broad range of age groups.
Classics for kids also has a nice audio show, biography and quiz about Mozart you could use this week.

Art

This week the Art project focuses on how El Greco elongated people and animals in his paintings. If you don’t hate silly putty, I have a simple activity for you to go with this week’s art. Silly putty is great at picking up images from news paper or pencil drawn pictures! Simply smash some silly putty onto a picture from a news paper or your own picture, carefully peal it up; do you see the picture? Now carefully pull the top and bottom away from each other and elongate the image, the way El Greco would’ve painted.

I’ve also found this free coloring page of an El Greco painting: The Burial of Count Orgaz. It’s an example page from a Dover book where you can color many of the famous artists paintings.

Latin

Print the flash cards for this week’s classical roots:

Latin Roots Week 8

History

Our world wide classroom blog has a post about early Australia and about Captain James Cook. You could try out her method of teaching about Australia, or just take advantage of the coloring pages she posted here of early Australians and of Captain James Cook.
While you’re teaching about Australia and the Aborigines, make it fun with this cute boomerang project at kidsactivities.

If you own a telescope, this is the week to pull it out! Take some time to examine the different parts of a telescope, the knobs and what they do, and how it functions. Don’t forget to review some Classical Roots with this history topic- tele- far, and scopeo- to look!
Here is a powerpoint I found that goes through some of the history of the telescope.
Galileo Galilei is known for several contributions to science! One of them is the law of falling bodies- that all objects fall at the same rate (9.8m/s/s), and it’s air resistance that slows down some objects making it appear that they fall more slowly. Layers of Learning has a good lesson description for this law, and links to a cool video of a hammer and a feather falling on the moon. Have your students guess what the result will be before they see the video- will the hammer land at the same time as the feather? Why doesn’t it work the same on Earth?
If you don’t mind a construction project, this at-home pendulum project might be for you. Galileo was also known for his work on how pendulums work! Sometimes I see these set up (well a more sophisticated version) in Children’s Museums, so if you know of one close by- just take a field trip!
This is a pretty good video that shows what Galileo learned about the pendulum and shows several experimental set ups demonstrating properties of the pendulum. It’s 8min long.
When you learn about whaling this week, have fun making either this paper plate whale or this slightly simplier one. (they both look cool, and I couldn’t choose between them).

Geography

Keep going in your Central America and American Islands lapbook!
Here is a site with 11 pages of Central America worksheets!
Don’t think you’ll get through this post without some reference to food: Here is a link to a website with “Must eat Foods from each country in Central America” with pictures and links to recipes! Yum!

Science

Volcanoes are an easy science topic to add any number of activities to this week! Here are a few ideas, but if your students are volcano lovers, be sure to just check pinterest for more ideas than you have time to do!
Build a 3-D paper volcano model with this printable. Print it on cardstock, fold on the lines and secure with glue or tape.
Get a copy or borrow The Magic School Bus Blows it’s Top.

Here is a free worksheet you can have your students color with all the parts of a volcano labeled.
Here’s a playlist by National Geographic Kids, with several videos about Volcanoes. (unfortunately there are several commercials that show up)

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