This week we worked with the letter L...
In Poetry...
Ava has memorized The Return, by Barbara Juster Esbensen. She is now trying to teach it to me.
We read The Song of the Lilly-of-the-Valley Fairy, and colored her in our coloring books.
Our theme for the week..
was Valentine's day! We read Little Bear's Valentine, by Else Holmelund Minarik. A story as sweet as all the original Little Bear stories are, and very well loved in our house. The Valentine Bears, by Eve Bunting, and illustrated by Jan Bret. This story is about a couple of married bears who love each other very much, Ava loved how they took time to share their love. Valentine Poems selected by Myra Cohn Livingston is a charming little collection of poems, including our very first Rebus. Ava loved that one so much, I am going to have to find some more for her soon. Inspired by our heavy dose of poetry this week my children each wrote their very own Valentine poems.
Valentine's Day theme provided endless possibilities for crafting. We made rose oil infused playdough with rose petals...
We tried our brushes at wet on wet water color painting....
Later I took our painted pages and cut them into (EIGHTY!!) heart shapes, gluing them together with a ribbon loop to hang them for a future project. (more on that later)
Here is a sneak peak at our Valentine boxes that we started ... (more on that later)
In Math...
~We learned the term dozen using an egg carton, and making a chart on a white board.
~We used tiles to reinforced counting large sums by grouping by fives.
~We associated coins with written numbers.
~We continued to associate dimes with tens and nickles with fives.
~We introduced the 'cent' sign.
~We used the term between in a mathematical setting.
In Art Study...
We examined The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur.
Later today we are going to make our Valentine cards for each other, and bake heart shaped lemon sugar cookies. A good week indeed!
5 comments:
Wau!! We love all the projects! We are looking forward to our next week (that will be our valentine week) to make the pink homemade playdoogh and taste the lemoncookie of wee folk art curriculum!
Besos
Another wonderful week! Tell Ava I think the horses look angry, too! With all of our gray winter skies, I'm looking forward to some blue skies, too :) Can't wait to see what you are doing with all the Valentine hearts.
Lovely to see so many activities! Beautiful valentine's crafts. I love the red and pink tones in the photographs. Very beautiful!
Luciana
...about the picture and what she might think of it later:
I recently attended a Dennis clock lecture out at the Austin Waldorf School where he had us all look at a picture and tell the story of what was going on in it. People's stories varied by who they are, not what the picture was really about (we see life not as it is , but how we are). It would be interesting to have her describe what she thinks is going on in the picture (either you write it for her or she writes it [I forgot how old she is]). it would be fun for her to do the same exercise years later and then compare them (he said this is a something done in counseling, too, as a way to measure progress/changes).
I know this post is about a year late but I've just found your blog today. I'm so grateful for everything you've put into this site. Thank you so much!!!
*Dennis Klocek (gotta love that unsolicited automated word correction on my computer)...
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