"E", Birdies, and Cimabue

 Preschool practice continues with the letter E:

We read Elmer and did several activities.

Egg starts with E. Caleb and Cooper put together a Humpty Dumpty puzzle.

Caleb attempts to put Humpty together again.

We've been studying birds at our Thursday nature class. We put these felt garden birdies together on a rainy afternoon.

 Cimabue has been the focus of our art lessons the past two weeks. We have no gold leaf, so we made do with yellow construction paper.

Artistic Pursuits

We began our new art program, Artistic Pursuits, on Friday. So far, so good. 

Cooper's inspiration.

Photo Catch-up

Since I haven't posted in a while, here are a few photos of some of our recent additions/activities...

A history timeline now graces our wall.

After reading Nate the Great, the boys colored Fang yellow (like Annie) and then red (like Harry) resulting in an orange dog.  

Caleb waters our basil plant so the boys can observe water absorption.

Noah and Cooper examine soil from our garden.

This was an excellent read! Beethoven has been a favorite.

Another great read!

Black and white illustrations and excerpts of music are interspersed throughout the book.

We began investigating animals and their habitats last week.

The boys sorted land animals by habitat.

Making Mycenaean shields after our history lesson.

Preschool Progress

I'll play catch-up on the blog for a few days (hopefully!). Here's a glimpse at some of Caleb's preschool activities of late. We've been working through the alphabet.

Cutting out pictures that begin with "a' to glue onto his "Aa" sheet.
This activity is repeated with each letter.

We read Good Night Moon and did several related activities.
Here, he's counting stars and attaching the corresponding number. 

His "a" craft activity was a partially eaten apple.
He's adding fingerprint seeds to the apple core.

We read Brown Bear, Brown Bear to go along with our "b" studies.
This was a fun, graphing activity. Caleb graphed each roll of the dice. 

We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and Caleb made his own caterpillar.

Noah worked with Caleb on sequencing events from The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Doesn't that cat have a lovely "c" tail?

Many of the resources I'm using can be found at www.homeschoolcreations.com.

Nature Walk

We hosted French 2 weeks ago and went on a nature walk / scavenger hunt after lunch. Here are a few snapshots from the nature reserve...

Sweet Bryce

All of the boys, especially Lyam and Cooper, were very busy rearranging these branches.

Phoenician Bread and Glass

Last week, we studied the Ancient Phoenicians in history. Here are some photos that I failed to post. Incidentally, the bread was made on the same day we watched Bama win the national championship. The individual breads were a great part of our game day spread.

Measuring and Mixing

Kneading the dough

Grated crayons for our pretend glass

Adding some color

Finished product

Preschool, Plagues, and Feet

Caleb has enjoyed using his new numbers workbook.

 After reading our history lesson on the Ten Plagues, we read the account from Scripture. The boys added (and removed) the appropriate plagues throughout the reading.

Cooper places the "Nile turned to blood."

Noah and Caleb added frogs. 

Cooper uses his feet to measure the hall rug. He then measured in feet using a ruler.