the grouchy ladybug

To go along with our insect unit, we have been doing a few fun and educational activities to go along with this book.

telling time to the hour
main character traits
talked about respect
learned about the life cycle of ladybugs
illustrated their part of the book
completed a day in the life of the grouchy ladybug flipbook
painted ladybugs from rocks

co-op class - astronomy

A few weeks back we learned about Saturn and I let each student make their own Saturn to take home with them.

Ella's multicolored Saturn! Gracelyn's blue with orange dots Saturn!

materials-

styrofoam ball

old cd

paint

toothpick

directions-

1. cut the styrofoam ball in half

2. paint both halves of the styrofoam ball

3. let dry overnight

4. place a toothpick in the center of one of the halves

5. sandwich the cd between the two halves

*Our cd isn't staying in place, so if I were to do this project again, I would try glueing the 2 halves to the cd. If anyone tries this, let me know how it worked for you and what kind of glue you used!

patchwork skirt

Lastweek while on spring break, my sister in-law and I made skirts for our girls!

a visit to the pond

We have been on spring break this week and came back home to Georgia to visit with our family. Today we went to a park that is in our home town to feed the ducks and look for tadpoles. I thought it would be a great tie in since we have been learning about ducks and frogs! The kids loved feeding the ducks, but we weren't able to find any tadpoles because the water was way too muddy from the storms lastnight.

ribbit ribbit!

This week we learned about frogs! It was a short week for us so we didn't do any crafts to go along with this unit. Here's what was in this week's workboxes...

Gracelyn-

skip counting by 5s

sight words and reader

word search

copy work

life cycle of frogs

addition

explode the code

Ella-

explode the code

Ff handwriting sheet

life cycle of frogs

addition

phonics worksheet

Ff mini book

skip counting by 5s

Here are the completed life cycles!

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