This and That

Playing math:

Alphabet Train:

 

 

 Percussion:

 When's your birthday Caleb?

 He can't smell a rose if you erase his _____:

If you make a mouse cookie...

Getting crafty

Noah works on Corduroy's overalls:

 This morning started with "camping" in the sitting room:

 We're still doing shapes in art:

Learning Together

We're learning about how plants grow and change this week. Cooper read Jenny's Garden for us this morning.

 The boys went on a shape hunt as part of their art lesson.

Back to work

We took two weeks off from school in order to pack, move, unpack, and get into a reasonably settled state. We started school a couple of weeks early this summer in anticipation of the move.

I've been enjoying a new (to me) book, Phonemic Awareness: Playing with Sounds to Strengthen Beginning Reading Skills, that I brought back from the States. My ex-Kindergarten teacher mother has a seemingly endless supply of resources, and I'm happy to de-clutter her shelves. 

The activity below is a "Rhyme-Away Story." If you can count to three, erase the _____.

 Working with the balance scale in math was a big hit.

 Simon Says, touch the letter that says "a" to your nose.

 We've moved from lines to shapes in art. The boys created a shape picture with tangram pieces and reproduced it on paper.

 Missing letters:

Ashmolean - Trip 1

School has continued though the blog has not. Below are a couple of photos from our first of what I assume will be many trips to the Ashmolean Museum.

Nick read some Cuneiform to the boys.

Blueberries for Sal

The boys correctly ordered events from the book Blueberries for Sal:

and they made a chart of words that do/do not begin with "B":

Greek with Nick

Our internet has been down, so I wasn't able to post these photos from last Friday.Nick is continuing to teach Cooper and Noah Greek. 

Cooper worked on copying a portion of Scripture:

Noah reviewed the Greek alphabet:

Caleb entertained himself: