Thursday, September 4, 2008

Night of the Moonjellies

We just finished our Night of the Moonjellies unit from Five in a Row for Riley and Cole. We had so much fun! This book is so sweet and warm. I could read it over and over.


A few of the things we learned about are moonjellies, New England States, sea glass, art terms, and new vocabulary words. We discussed character traits like responsibility. We also learned a lot about Maine! We decided to use spiral scrapbooks for our FIAR notebooking this year, as recommended by Sheri and Heather. I am loving using these!



Comparing piers and marinas





We went to see real live moonjellies. Very cool!





Sea glass artwork

The highlight of the week was when we recreated Mar-Gra's restaurant.

We made menus with the items we would be offering and the prices.

We used these cute Mar-Gra's guest checks that I found online to write down everyone's orders and add up their bill.

And we cooked and served! Of course we said as many lines as we could from the book.

What a fun unit!

7 comments:

Heather said...

Oh you guys had a great time!!

Love the Mar-Gra's reenactment!!

Heather W

Edwena said...

Looks like great fun!
Edwena from FIAR

Amber said...

I love the reenactment! We just finished NOTMJ this week too! It is such a fun story!

Anonymous said...

fun! we are going to do that one too! love the scrapbook.

Anonymous said...

Love this book! Love your Mar- Gra's what fun what fun!

my5wolfcubs said...

We also just finished NOTMJ! We didn't do a Mar-Gra's...maybe next time round! :) Love your pictures!
Lee

Anonymous said...

Love, love the scrapbook idea! I still find single sheets of written work from years ago....I just can't toss them. But, having them all together in a notebook is BRILLIANT!