Bee's Squid

This week Bee is teaching us about squids.  She has a lot of fun things planned for us.  I will be helping her with some of these lessons.  We will start off by talking about the importance of working as a team and taking different scientific approaches for a common goal.

Squid Dissection  - We used this as a guide to our dissection

After we identified the organs, the pen and the beak as well as the sex of our squid, we cleaned them and fried them up.

 We fried them up in butter, garlic, and onion.  I thought they were rather tasty but the kids thought they were a little fishy.  Imagine that.

Bee liked them the most.  She chowed down and finished off several of them

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/videos/the-giant-squid-discoverers.htm

"The giant squid discoverers" at discovery.com explains a wonderful approach to solving scientific problems and working on research as a team.


Giant squid


Squid experiment - almost unschoolers








origami squid



Tree of Life


   


CBS News - Hombolt Squid





winky the homboldt squid

Coffee filter squid

We took two coffee filters and put a little stuffing between two and stapled them together

Then we made tentacles and arms by cutting strips out of another filter and stapled them on the bottom and painted them with watercolor.

In the end we made a squid wall to display our little critters

We also created salt dough squid and baked them

Early American Explorers 1535-1543

Monday

• 1535 - Jacques Cartier travels up the St. Lawrence River to Quebec and Montreal. 

   









biography clip 

• 1539 - Fray Marcos de Niza searches for the Seven Cities of Gold and wanders over New Mexico. 

Wednesday

1539-41 - Hernando de Soto explores Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, and becomes the first European to cross the Mississippi River.      

   

 De Soto Clip

1540-42 - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado explores the Gila River, the Rio Grande, and the Colorado River. He reaches as far north as Kansas before returning to Mexico City. He too searches for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold. 

 

Coronado clip 

Friday

1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sails up the California Coast and claims it for Spain.

 

1543 - Followers of Hernando De Soto sail from the Mississippi River to Mexico.
Bartolome Ferrelo continues sailing north up California and reaches what is probably present day Oregon.  

Sea Turtles

As part of our ocean studies we are learning about sea turtle.  Living so close to a beach that has turtle nesting for a good part of the year is a trip.  It's one thing to read about turtles nesting but to see the actual nests and turtle prints is another.  I'm looking forward to this summer.  I really hope that we can see turtle prints and hopefully even a nest site.



Monday

Folly Beach Turtle Watch Program















Pamela Susan Turtle poem and pet











Wednesday

Sea Turtle Documentary
This is a fascinating documentary about Leather Back Turtles.  I had no idea how amazing their anatomy is.  It does show a dissection of a Leather Back Turtle that was killed by a boat propeller and does talk quite extensively about its sex organs(which I will edit for my children) but very informational.  Two thumbs up


Easy oragami turtle






Friday






 Sea Turtle Conservancy





We will also be watching this on netflix.