The creation above was D(age12)'s contribution to our honeybee study, yesterday. It started out in the morning as a Kafkaesque combination of a Zoob-man meets insect.
Then, after some reading on insects, and bees in particular, it gained a couple of legs, and an abdomen as well as a thorax...
...finally morphing, by late afternoon, into a full blown, if slightly cumbersome, honey bee...
...all ready to be photographed, and labelled in Paint.
I was very grateful for the entire process, not just because it demonstrated a good deal of thought, creativity and attention to detail on the part of a student (always nice to see), with no work or preparation on my part (even better), but also because it saved me the precious printer ink I would have needed to for the honeybee worksheet I had bookmarked (total victory).
It's great to be a homeschooler.
4 comments:
Printer ink, so precious.
Brilliant. I just love activities where the children are able to demonstrate their learning away from paper and without any input from me!
They did a great job!
What wonderful hands on learning.
Blessings, Dawn
These are really impressive models!
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