Presidents day!

We talked about what we would do if  we were president. Then Lily and Aj wrote a story and drew picture about what they would do. They also learned about president George W Bush. We read books and used our president flash cards.

Wee Gillis

Title: Wee Gillis
Author: Munro Leaf
Illustrator: Robert Lawson
Copyright: 1983
Award: Caldecott Honor Book
Summary: A young lad with a big decision to make finds a way to be himself.

Social Studies:(Geography,Scotland)
The story takes place in Scotland so we placed our story disc on our world map. The kids colored flags, did worksheets, watched a video on u-tube about Scotland and the Loch Ness monster. They also read books, watch a movie and ate shortbread cookies.

Language arts:(Poetry, Robert Burns, Handwriting)

The Kids learned about Robert Burns by watching a video, copying one of his poems in their best handwriting. We also listened to his poetry on a CD and read a book.

Art: ( Painting, Lines)

At our Home school co-op this past week we made line mosaics. The kids used q-tips to paint paper tiles.

Mathematics: (Calendar, Months in the year)

We reviewed the moths of the year and read a book.

Science- ( Respiratory system)

We learned about our Lungs and respiratory system. We read a book, did worksheets and made our own lung using a plastic bag and straw.

Extra fun-
We rented the movie Wee Gillis from the Library. We also read a fictional book about the Loch Ness Monster!

Thanks for reading! Stay tuned to the next book!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Today is St. Patrick's Day. We had A lot of Irish fun. We did a sensory bin activity, read books, colored pictures and had a yummy leprechaun lunch and a traditional Irish dinner.

 We did an experiment with gel balls the day before. After putting little pellets in a container of water they got bigger and the next day they turned into marble sized balls.

Sensory play- On St. Patrick's Day I used the gel balls along with ice, water, measuring spoons and cups to create a fun play station for the kids. They loved it and played with this activity for a couple hours. The kids also added some cars and trucks for more fun!

We had a yummy Leprechaun lunch which consisted of green mac and cheese, celery with peanut butter and animal cookies and a strawberry,blueberries fruit cup!

Next we colored pictures, made crafts and traced shamrocks.

Then the kids watched movies and read books.

For dinner we had corn beef, cabbage with soda bread and for desert shamrock sugar cookies.

Asia!

We have been learning about Asia this month.

We made Japanese folding screens.

We went to Boston to see the Japanese house at the childrens museum.

We watched a movie about Asian animals.

We ate Chinese food,cookies and we learned that peaches originally came from Japan.

We read books about Asia and panda bears. We also listened to Chinese music,learned a little Chinese and listened to stories.