learning about Butterflies

The kids had so much fun painting their cocoons, and learning about butterflies.

Last week

Monday we did day 3 from week 3 and learned about eating healthy. The kids are so smart I almost feel like we could do more. We sorted healthy food from unhealthy food and Alex vowed to eat just plain apples instead of apples with carmel to be healthier, LOl. We matched letters M through R, made a coloring book with healthy food, counted toothbrushes, and made a playdough fruit bowl. We couldn't resist spending the last 15 minutes outside it was such a nice day!

Thursday we learned about the tooth fairy, day five of week 3. First we played a fun game taking turns to be the tooth fairy and switching teeth for money under the others kids pillows. Then we played tooth fairy where are you? We had a fun art project making pillows for our teeth and played one more game pretending to be the tooth fairy and working on our numbers. The children can count to ten or higher, but when you show them a single number, not everyone knows what that number is. We also worked on writing our R's. We enjoyed a visit from my cute niece Gretchen aswell.

Sorry I have not posted yet- These are some pictures that I took a few weeks ago. The kids have so much fun together and love learning...Alex & James finally know that they live next door to each other & love it! And the boys seem to fight over Randi sometimes :) Owen is such a sweet boy!! :)

March 22nd, 2009

We continued with our transportation week from the lesson and did day 5 of week 1. We learned about trains. We read a Jungle Train adventure story and counted to 6. We also reviewed reviewed our letter P and tried to write it. The kids absolutely loved painting their own train cars. Just a reminder fornext week, Camille will be gone Monday so we're trying for Thursday and Friday.

March 16th, 2009

We celebrated St. Patricks Day early. We learned about the leprechauns, and their pot o'gold over the rainbow. We even went on a hunt to try and find the leprechaun Miss Emily saw that morning. He left behind a trail of shamrocks and even though we didn't catch him, we did find his pot o'gold. The kids loved it and wanted to keep hunting for him the rest of the morning. We also reviewed our shapes and colors. I didn't use any lesson plans for Monday.

Thursday was a lot of fun. We talked about going on vacation and practiced packing a suitcase. We also read some stories about different kinds of transportation. Then everyone made their own suitcase, with clothes. They loved playing red light/green light while "driving" in their cars. I also found out that they all enjoy doing puzzles.