for the birds!

This week we went with a bird theme and did some learning activities with our left over plastic Easter eggs! This was a really easy unit for me to put together, thanks to Jolanthe over at Homeschool Creations and for the girls since all of the activities were a review for them.














*Be sure to check out the preschool corner to see what other families are doing!

insect collages

(Sorry the picture is so dark!)

Here are the insect collages that we did last week to go along with The Very Quiet Cricket. I found the idea online somewhere, but there wasn't a picture to go along with the idea. So, I guess this is the way they are supposed to look! I just went to google images and found the insects and printed them out.

materials-
insect sheets
tissue paper cut into small squares
watered down glue
paint brush
scissors

directions-
1. print out insect sheets
2. pour a small amount of glue in a bowl
3. add just a little bit of water to the glue, mix
4. paint the glue mixture on the insect
5. place tissue squares on the insect, overlapping to form a collage look

crickets in our workboxes

Here is what was in this week's workboxes to go along with The Very Quiet Cricket.

Gracelyn

explode the code

sight words and reader

writing activity

ordinal numbers

cr- blends

mini book

label the parts of a cricket

insect tissue paper collage

Ella

explode the code

sight words and reader

writing activity

ordinal numbers

cr- and sw- blends sort

insect tissue paper collage

label the parts of a cricket

Last week we did activities to go along with The Grouchy Ladybug and this is what was in their workboxes. Be sure to check out the Preschool Corner to see what other families are doing!

the very quiet cricket

This week we are continuing on with our insect theme by reading The Very Quiet Cricket. Just like last week, we have been doing some fun and educational activities to go along with this book.

comprehension - story sequence cards
insect tissue paper collages
writing activity
label the parts of a cricket
mini book
cr blends
ordinal numbers

ladybugs in our workboxes

Here is what was in last week's workboxes. I wasn't able to upload all of the pictures because blogger was running very slow. The only boxes not shown is Gracelyn's sight words and reader and their explode the code workbooks.

Gracelyn

word families

addition sheet

favorite part of The Grouchy Ladybug

number book

life cycle of ladybugs

Ella

sight words and reader

number book

word families

domino math

favorite part of The Grouchy Ladybug

life cycle of ladybugs

ladybugs!

Here is a close up of the ladybugs we painted lastweek.

materials-
flat rocks
red paint
black sharpie
paint brush

directions-
1. go on a nature walk with your kids and look for flat rocks
2. wash the rocks off with water to get rid of the dirt
3. allow the rocks to dry in the sun

4. paint the rocks red - let dry completely
5. use the sharpie to create the ladybugs on the rocks!

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.