Links to Math Tutorials

• Week 1: Symmetry Art Project
• Week 2: Magic Squares
• Week 3: “T” puzzle
• Week 4: Patterns in Nature
• Week 5: Tessellations
• Week 6: Hexaflexagons
• Week 6: Hexaflexagon Tutorial
• Week 7: Platonic Solids
• Week 7: Platonic Solids Tutorial

Links for Music Appreciation

• Week 1: Classics for Kids About Tchaikovsky
• Week 2: 1812 Overture
• Week 3: Swan Lake Waltz
• Week 4: Marche Slave
• Week 5: Sleeping Beauty Waltz
• Week 6: Russian Dance from the Nutcracker Suite
• Week 7: Waltz of the Flowers

Nature Tutorials

• Week 1: Nature scavenger hunt
• Week 3: Nature Walk Ideas
• Week 4: Playdough nature walk
• Week 5: Leaf identification game
• Week 6: Hibernation
• Week 6: Hibernation video

Links to Pictures for Picture Study

• Stone City, Iowa
• Plaid Sweater
• Dinner for Threshers
• Appraisal
• Sleigh Ride
• Seed Time and Harvest
• Approaching Storm

Books and Resources Needed for this Term

Feel free to substitute favorite fall books from your shelf or library.

 Loew-Cornell Chalk Pastels, 24-Count The Moffats The Railway Children (Puffin Classics) Misty of Chincoteague Seeing Symmetry Peter Tchaikovsky (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers) Possum’s Harvest Moon Sing Me a Story: The Metropolitan Opera’s Book of Opera Stories for Children Artist in Overalls: The Life of Grant Wood Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares (Step-Into-Reading, Step 4) MacBeth : For Kids (Shakespeare Can Be Fun series) Let’s Make a Joyful Noise: Celebrating Psalm 100 Swan Lake Child’s Introduction to Ballet: The Stories, Music, and Magic of Classical Dance Great-Grandma Tells of Threshing Days The Wreck of the Zephyr Chicks & Chickens Poetry for Young People: Edward Lear Count Down to Fall Leaf Man Tessalation! Strega Nona’s Harvest If You’re Not From The Prairie Tornadoes! The Apple Pie Tree Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep! The Long, Long Journey: The Godwit’s Amazing Migration Migration (First Step Nonfiction (Paperback)) The Wind Blew (Rise and Shine)