Week 32 Y ~ Yellow {4/30 - 5/4/2012}

Our LAST letter!!!  I can't believe it!  Where did this year go?????????

This week we studied Y for Yellow and we studied all about the colors of the rainbow and the primary colors and the secondary colors. 

We got the paint out and mixed the colors so the kids could see and do it them selves, and then another evening we put water in glasses and did it with food coloring. 

Both girls have been really coming along with their reading, and I thought it would be good to practice the color words for sight words.  It had said to write the word and then put the color next to it.  I didn't like that, so I just wrote all the words in black on different cards and figured we would work on recognizing the word itself.  Well... that took all of about one minute.  The first time I went through them, they both knew what each one was and not by sounding them out, but just knowing them.  Alyssa guessed wrong one saying Black was Blue, but other than that, they both knew all the words.  Amazed!

Here are our library books:

Week 31 Q ~ Quail {4/23 - 4/27/2012}

This week we studied Q ~ Quail.  Not gonna lie...  Pretty Boring!  With the exception of watching some Youtube video's of some Quails and watching a Quail hatch from the egg... not too much is all that fascinating about the good ole' Quail! 

We did do a fun thing where I got two puppets and put a Q on one and a U on the other, and we learned how Q is always followed by U!

Here are our library books:

Week 30 V ~ Vegetable {4/16 - 4/20/2012}

This week we studied V for Vegetables!  We had fun learning all about Vegetables and also some learning on the food pyramid and the different kinds of foods and how much of each you should eat everyday. 

I went away the latter part of the week, so they were able to have Daddy as a substitute again, which they loved.  As soon as I said I was going away they asked if Daddy was going to do school with them.  Fun!  Wish I could have been a fly on the wall to see it!  One thing they did was I saved some grocery store ads, and they were able to cut out all the vegetables they found.  They did good.  Even if the vegetable wasn't the main food in the photo, they still cut it out if they saw it on there.  Although there are some they are not fond of, I am very happy that I have veggie and fruit loving kids!! They are very excited that we will soon be planting our garden.

Here are our library books:

Week 29 X ~ Fox {4/9 - 4/13/2012}

This week we studied X ~ Fox. This was probably my least favorite week, just because of how it was backwards from the way we learned all the other sounds. It was a bit confusing going from F - Frog to X - Fox. Oh well... we survived.

Also, Fox, just wasn't that interesting of a lesson... I think the most interesting thing was that in our Fox books... we saw some foxes that seriously could have been Coorsy. Crazy how much he looks like a fox!!

Our Library Books:


We have also been getting the Dick and Jane books from the Library and both girls are doing a wonderful job at reading them. Alyssa we have noticed is very good with sight reading. You show her a word once and she remembers it.

The girls have also become very interested in sign language. I have been getting signing videos from the library and both girls (even Cole) enjoy watching them. Hayley already knows the whole alphabet and several words.

Week 28 F ~ Frog {4/2 - 4/6/2012}

This week we studied F - Frog. Not quite as exciting a Butterfly, but it was still a fun unit! We read all about how first Frogs start out as an egg, then they become tadpoles and then how they turn into a frog. It was interesting.

We did a few different things... first I got one of those "Watch Me Grow" things. It was a tiny frog that you put in water and just kept getting bigger. Then I also had a frog craft that I had the girls do. It just came with all the foam pieces and you glued it together.



What I love about this picture/craft, is that is a great illustration of their personalities. Hayley's frog is the left one. As she completes it and hands it to me she says, "Look, mine is JUST like the picture." Alyssa's frog is the right one. When she hands me hers she says, "Look, mine is having FUN!" Love it!!!

We talked about how frogs have long tongues and how they use them. We also talked about our tongues and what they are used for and also the harm that they can do with say mean things, etc.

Our Library books:

Week 27 ~ Review Week ~ {3/26 - 3/30/2012}

This was a Review Week for us. We reviewed the last 5 weeks of studies - Kangaroo, Zebra, Rock, Jewel and Butterfly.

We also started to do some Easter Crafts too.

Review Weeks are a nice relaxing break from the normal week of school.

Week 26 B ~ Butterfly {3/19 - 3/23-2012}

This was a very exciting week for school - one I had personally been looking forward to since the beginning of the school year - Butterfly!!

We were able to send away for caterpillars and we received our caterpillars and watched then crawl around their cup for a few days, then they crawled to the top and attached themselves and formed their Chrysalis, then we saw them become butterflies!! We have 5 in all, and although we didn't see any of them break out of their cocoons, it was still neat to walk by our kitchen table and realize we had another butterfly.




We also were able to go to a Butterfly exhibit at a nearby Mall. Hayley, Alyssa and Cole all got to have a butterfly sit on their hands. Very Cool!!


We also did two crafts. The girls made butterflies out of their hands, and they also colored life size "wings" out of paper bags.


Our Library books:


Our Bible Memory Verse was 2 Corinthians 5:17, " Therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come."

It was a fun week!!