Week 22 K ~ Kangaroo {2/13 - 2/17/2012}

Seriously the Kangaroo is fascinating!!!!

The fact that when born a Kangaroo is only about the size of a grape - A GRAPE people... and it knows to just crawl up an into the pouch of it's momma, is just fascinating to me. Not sure how the Kangaroo lucked out with being able to give birth to something so small...?

we learned that Kangaroo's can also jump 30 feet in one jump. We went out to the driveway and I marked a line and had each girl take a few jumps and we marked them with chalk and then measured them. We then measured 30 feet... the girls were amazed to see how much farther the Kangaroo could jump than them!

Here are our books and videos from the week:


We also celebrated Valentines Day this week too! We had made Valentines crafts two weeks ago and the girls sent "hugs" to their grandparents.

Week 21 ~ Review Week ~ {2/6 - 2/10/2012}

This week was a review week for us. We spent the week reviewing the different animals we learned about and what was so unique about them as well as where they were from. I love having the review weeks and seeing the girls think and recall what they have learned.

Week 20 P ~ Penguin {1/30 - 2/3/2012}

This week we studied Penguins! Such interesting little animals! So, in a nutshell... the mom lays the egg, then the dad carries the egg for two months on the top of his feet and under his belly to keep the egg warm. During those two months, the mom travels back to the water... and basically parties it up eating as much as she can. Then she comes back and brings up the food (pleasant huh!) for the babies to eat. How do they know to do this? Who told them what to do? Unbelievable!!

Our Library Books:


We also enjoyed March of the Penguins and Happy Feet


and a little Pittsburgh pride to go along with our theme...


Our Bible Memory Verse was Philippians 2:3 "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves

Week 19 E ~ Elephant {1/23 - 1/27/2012}

This week we studied E ~ Elephant! We had a fun time learning about the Elephant! They are so large, yet rather peaceful gentle animals! Some interesting facts are that the Elephants trunk has no bones in it, and has over 40,000 muscles - just in the trunk!! They also eat about 300lbs of leaves, twigs, fruit a day! That is a lot!!!

Our Library Books:


We also found some cool websites that had live video feeds of elephants!

Our Bible Memory Verse was Philippians 1:3 "I thank my God every time I remember you". This verse was chosen b/c you know.. elephants are supposed to have a great memory!

They also got to watch Dumbo and they did this elephant craft:

Week 18 H ~ Horse {1/16 - 1/20/2012}

This week we studied H ~ Horse and the number 14. We studied Horses and how horses obey right away to commands they are given. We also learned that God wants to lead us on a good path and He wants us to obey.

Our Bible Memory Verse was Colossians 3:20 "Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord."

Our Library Books:


Totally not school related... but one of the cutest things right now is Cole saying, "neigh". Whenever he sees a horse, he says it!

Week 17 C ~ Cow {1/9 - 1/13/2012}

This week we learned about C ~ Cow and the number 13. We learned all about Cows and how the process of milk goes from cow to carton. We even watched a video from a dairy farm on the process. One thing we did to learn more about milk is we had a "dairy party" for lunch one day. The lunch menu was: Fruit Smoothie made with yogurt, ice cream, mozzarella cheese stick, toast with cream cheese, a cheese quesadilla and sour cream for dipping and a piece of milk chocolate. They enjoyed it, but I think mostly they loved that they could eat their ice cream first!


We talked about how milk helps our bodies to grow and we also discussed how God's word helps us to grow too. Our Bible Memory Verse was John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

Our Library books:

Week 16 G ~ Goat {1/2 -1/6/2012}

This week we studied G ~ Goat and the number 12. We learned about Goats and the different things Goats are used for. We studied the biblical history of Goats and talked about sacrifices in the Bible and how we don't need to sacrifice animals because of sin anymore because Jesus died for our sins.

One thing we learned was that goat's make milk too... so we did a taste test! Everyone could tell which one was Goat's milk and which one was Cow's milk.


Our Bible Memory verse was John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life."


Our Library Books: