Ping finished.

We actually finished Ping awhile ago (obviously since I have been blogging about Lentil), but I wanted to blog about the rest of what we did before I forget!

The last 2 subjects were math and science which we did on Thursday and Friday. For math we used counting bears to represent ping and all his relatives and then counted them. I believe there was about 52 in total. Much higher than we are used to counting! For science we learned about ducks. We read, Ducks Don't Get Wet and learned about preening, the oil gland and how ducks cover themselves in oil so the water just rolls off them. We learned a lot of other interesting facts about them, too. We were lucky enough to see a mother and 5 ducklings at the park when we came out of the library. I was so excited, but upset that I didn't have my camera. Q ran to the car for some crackers and we fed them so that we could get a good luck at the ducks. We got to hear them quack and watch them swim.
Probably the boys' favorite part of this unit was going to a Chinese buffet restaurant. Although the food wasn't exactly authentic, we got to use chopsticks, listen to Chinese music, look at Chinese characters and see Chinese decorations. I tried to give Landon a fork to start eating, but he quickly reminded me that he had to use chopsticks like Chinese children do. Throughout the week we had read children's non-fiction books about China and that was one of the things we had learned. I also forgot my camera at the restaurant and was very upset with myself. Ashton actually asked the waitress to show him how to use the chopsticks and said hello to her in Chinese! On our table was a picture of the Great Wall and the boys were able to recognize it from the books we had read and were very excited to be sitting there.
The kids loved Ping and still get excited whenever they see anything Chinese or see ducks!