Helen Keller Chapter 10 and Final Activities

Helen Keller Chapter 10 and Final Activities

Chapter Summary- 
After graduating from Radcliffe College, Helen begins to do all she can to help other blind and deaf people. She writes papers and gives speeches. On October 19, 1936 Anne Sullivan Dies. This is Helen' s biggest loss. Helen continues to travel and tell her story all over the world. She lives to be 87 years old and dies on June 1st, 1968.

What we will cover in this Chapter:
Language Arts- Review Questions
History- World War Two

Langue Arts- Completing review questions
The kids completed a review worksheet about Chapter 10.

History- World War Two
This chapter mentions  World War 2 so it was a great opportunity to talk about it with the kids.I had the kids watch a war movie. War horse is about World War 1 but it is age appropriate and it tells about wartime.  They also completed a worksheet about the World War 2 which i purchased from teacherpayteachers.com  Lily and Aj watched a video of their great grandfather who was a war hero. He was is a paratrooper who Jumped out of a plane on D Day. Their are many videos and story's about his platoon.  The kids  read a book about World War 2. They also explored an old World War 2 fort in New Hampshire. 

Watching War Horse

Worksheet about World War 2

Kids learning about their Great Grandfather 

Picture of the kids Great Grandfather

Exploring Fort Dearborn, Portsmouth Harbor NH 

This property was used during World War 2. Today it is a great hiking and picnicking spot. 

Thanks for reading about all the activities we completed while reading Helen Keller. The kids enjoyed reading about her. 

Helen Keller Chapter 5 and 6

Helen Keller Chapter 5 and 6 
Chapter Summary-
Miss Annie and Helen take up residence together in the Helen's garden house. It was Miss Annie's idea to take Helen away from the family for awhile, and it works well. Each day, Helen learns more about Miss Annie but she still doesn't understand what words are or "finger selling" in her hands mean. Then one day the connection is made. Helen is playing in a fountain and as she feels the water. Miss Annie spells "water" in her hands. Helen understands that Annie is her teacher and she learns her own name- Helen. Things are finally changing for Helen.

What we will cover-
Language Arts- Review Questions
Extra Reading and movies- Sign Language and Blindness 


Language Arts- Review Questions 
Lily and Aj completed two worksheets about chapter 5 and 6.

Extra Reading and movies- Sign Language and Blindness 

We read a couple books to learn about blindness and sign language and we watched a video.

Thanks for reading!

Chapter 17- A famous Story

Chapter Summary-
In this chapter , two new characters are introduced, Ruth and Jim Wells. The story has suddenly jumped forward more then 2 centuries and this modern american couple is visiting the historical site of Betsy Ross's home in Philadelphia. Betsy Ross is a piece of American History. She has been remembered well.

What we will Learn in this chapter-
History and Geography- (Revolutionary War-Brief Outline)



What we will Learn in this chapter-
History and Geography- (Revolutionary War-Brief Outline)
We watched Liberty Kids about the revolutionary war.

This is a very short chapter because we went on A field Trip to Philadelphia. Which I will write about in my next blog post. It will be written soon so keep reading!

Thanks for reading!

Chapter 5-Toms First Train Ride

Chapter Summary-
The Edison's arrive at the train station. Unable to contain his excitement, Tom races and begins to ask the engineer, Mr. Benjamin, many questions. Mr Benjamin likes the young boy's energy, and says Tom may ride in the engine with him for a few miles. Mr. and Mrs. Edison agree and Tom is Joyous. His ride with the Engineer goes quickly, and Tom learns all about how a steam engine works. When he is back with his family, Tom relates his experiences to them and the rest of trip to Detroit goes by quickly.

What we will cover in this chapter-
Science -Water and ground Pollution
Language arts- Writing
Math- Addition
Art- Painting with primary colors


Science- (water Pollution)
We did 2 hands on experiments about water pollution. We also watched a video of the affects of changing climate on Antarctica.

The first experiment was simple. We used materials around the house to learn about pollution within our interconnected waterways. We used and egg carton, water, food coloring and flax seeds. We talked about about how water ways are all connected to each other- creeks run into river, then into lakes and oceans. We put the flack seeds and food coloring  into one of the egg cups and watched how it slowly spread into the other cups. This taught the kids that if you throw trash into a creek or river it doesn't just get that waterway dirty. The water caries the trash to other places like oceans and it will eventually spread into the ground.

The next experiment the kids learned you can't undo water pollution.  We used a bucket of clean water, trash from around the house, vegetable oil to represent toxic oil spills, tongs and a sponge. First the kids took turns adding trash to the water. When the water looked polluted enough the kids had to use their tongs and sponge to remove the trash. After awhile they removed all the big items but soon realized they were unable to remove all the pollutants from the water.

Math- (Addition)
Lily and Aj completed 2 addition worksheets. The worksheets  had a train theme.

Art-(Primary Colors, Acrylic Painting)
The kids used only the 3 primary colors and white to make their paintings. They were asked to paint pictures about nature and how to help stop pollution.

Language Arts- Writing
Thomas Edison rode the train for the first time in this chapter. The kids had to write about something they remembered doing for the first time.

Thank for reading Chapter 5!