The Grains

(Watercolor painting by a 3rd grader)

I just wrapped up a two-weeks block on "The Grains" this week. I loved teaching this block. I covered 7 grains, the trade of both miller & baker as well as some basic information about windmills. I will attempt to blog about this for the next 7 days, covering the grains we covered in class. I will share some of the beautiful work my students did these past two weeks; work from all students. Hard to believe that on top of this, we also prepared for our class play, Joseph, during this time!

Each planet is associated with a day of the week. I did give my students an overview of this, although they will not formally be studying planets until 6th grade. The quality of the planets brings an understanding about the grains. It seems just natural that a watery Moon day calls for rice!

Here is a list of the grains we covered. They are all so very different. Some people switch millet & oats. They feel that millet has more of a female Venus quality than oat. I found the information here very helpful.

(A windmill ~ Crayon drawing by a 3rd grader)

I will hopefully have a blog post for the next 7 days, starting with Sunday. I hope you will enjoy this as much as I did.