this week, the letter c

...verse of the week:

"Children, obey your parents, for this is right." Eph. 6:1

numbers:
caterpillar magnets


in the kitchen:
cupcakes!!

science:
color mixing
(I wasn't quite sure if it was going to work correctly, but you can see it did! :) )




E at work during school time :)

this week, the letter b

...Sunday,
we released our butterflies

Monday,
Acts 16:30 "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved."
Number mats
Read Big Bug Surprise, Julia Gran
Nature walk with our magnifying glass to look for bugs

Tuesday,
Closed on our house, so not much!! :)

Wednesday,
Birthday in a Bathtub, Marcia Leonard
Made a blue things mini-book
made blueberry muffins for a special snack
Magnetic pattern blocks letter b
sorted pom poms into numbered cups
wrote some words that start with b

Thursday,
Baa Baa Black Sheep, Iza Trapani
One Bear at Bedtime, Mick Inkpen
Trip to the library
Toured the fire station (not the letter b, but educational anyway :) )

Friday,
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
Watched "Reading Rainbow's Berliot the Bear"
Lacing Beads
Made Banana Bread

this week, the letter a

...Some of the things we did this week...

Verse of the week:
"All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Rom. 3:23

Science:
label the parts of an apple

Special Snack:
apple tasting
applesauce cupcakes
apple smoothie (E loved it; the rest of us thought it was disgusting! haha)

Math:
apple file folder game
apple sequence cards
color by number apples

Large & small motor/manipulatives:
magnetic pattern letter a
airplane cutting practice

Bible:
Adam and Eve

Art:
fingerprint ants
dot painting the letter a

Just for fun:
scavenger hunt, things that start with a
learned "The Ants Go Marching" song
field trip to airport to watch take-off and landing

Books:
The Crooked Apple Tree, Eric Houghton
Airplanes, Cynthia Roberts
Airplanes, Hal Rogers

Videos:
"Airplanes," Evan Ferrante
"Ants in Arthur's Pants," Marc Tolon Brown

how do butterflies grow?

...from egg,
to caterpillar.
from caterpillar to chrysalis.

and from chrysalis to butterfly!

absolutely amazing!!

...update!!!! now two of the butterflies are mating!!!!
we really are seeing the life cycle of a butterfly from the very beginning...

our earth day fun

...in honor of earth day today, we did everything we possibly could outside.
we didn't get to do as much as i had planned, because of some light rain,
but it was a nice slow and lazy day :)

we played with roly polies (how in the world do you make
roly poly plural??)

ate our morning snack out back
painted the shed with watercolors
(had fun with the colorful water!)
caught a caterpillar and played with him for a little bit
"fed" him dirt and grass and leaves

j ran inside to get our butterfly book,
and then j and t watched patiently for him
to make his chrysalis and come out as
a beautiful butterfly :)
looked for more caterpillars and other bugs

enjoyed our time together
we walked to the library to check out books about
butterflies and spring (but didn't get a picture of that.)

we were also supposed to have t-ball practice this evening
and then a picnic dinner at the library for an outdoor concert,
but practice was cut short and the concert moved inside because
of the rain. oh well, it was a nice day enjoying our time outside...

i love spring

..never before have these irises
bloomed in our backyard.
now they're popping up all over back there!
it is a nice surprise...

dyeing eggs

...beets, ground turmeric, canned blueberries,
spinach leaves, vinegar, salt, and water

i guess they're beautiful in their own way...