October 2014 – Page 2 – The Espinoza Family Blog

Homeschool Science Class

Today Isabel went to her second homeschool science class at the Nature Center.

She didn’t give me a lot of information about what they did in class. She did tell me that there is another Isabelle in class now, so Isabel has to go by Izzy.

Field study paper from their walk.
Isabel said they didn’t get far along the trail again this time but she had fun.

It’s been a week since my last school posting and I’m sorry about that. I worked every day, all day last week, subbing for a fellow teacher, who was hunting with her husband. It was a great week though and I enjoyed it. I got to see a lot of my fellow three-year olds from last year! So awesome to see how they have grown in just 3 months!

Gino had been helping with school at home with Isabel last week while I was working and I really do appreciate all his help. However all that subbing and working won’t happen again. I appreciate the time I was given but I really do need to home with Isabel at school.

Today’s Bible reading for Isabel, was in Genesis 27:1-35 about the birth of Jacob and Esau. The parent reading was in Luke 7:36-50 about a Roman Commander who has great faith and Jesus raising a widow’s son from the dead.

This week we are starting 2 new books:

Learning about the Penobscot Native American Tribe in Maine.

Today’s reading was to read the introduction and chapters 1-2. After her reading, I had Isabel draw a picture of what she thought the main characters home area looked like.

She did a fantastic job!
Her depiction is from his first day alone and testing out his father’s blunderbuss gun on a squirrel.

Our other new book this week (we start it on Thursday) is:

Learning about the Incan Tribe in South America.

Psalm 8 is coming along, this week we add the final 5 sentences. Next week we bring all the verses together! Isabel sings it beautifully with the accompanying CD, however in 2 weeks she needs have the whole thing memorized.

You have put all things under his feet. All sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field. The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea. Whatever passes through the paths of the seas, O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is your name in all the earth!

Marine Life Peer

This weekend we headed to the Foss Waterway for an evening of fun peering over the pier. We spent the evening look at marine animals that live in the Puget Sound waterway.

Isabel and I before the class started.

Before heading down to the pier, we watched a live feed from off the pier with a scuba diver. That was awesome!

Out on the pier, we took scoops over the edge to collect and observe anything that we could catch.

Isabel loved this! We all tried it but the only one with any luck was Isabel. She caught some type of marine worm (can’t remember the name).

Isabel and this little girl started to work together to catch things off the pier.
This little girl was great at catching things!

The Foss Waterway building was built in 1900 and was part of a much larger building than what it is today. It was built as a wheat warehouse to transfer wheat from train (tracks on other side) to boats. Now the building is used to educate families and students about maritime heritage and other community events.

We had so much fun, wish the learning didn’t have to end.
Now it’s time to head back to the classroom for observation, study, cookies and cocoa.

Looking under the microscope…

at baby shrimp.

We also looked at plankton under the microscope as well.

In the classroom they had tanks filled with marine animals from Puget Sound. However these animals have been in the tanks for years and are healthy and thriving. Unlike the starfish, that are struggling to survive in the water along our coast all the way down to California. There is a strange disease that is affecting them and killing starfish off.