Bread and Jam for Frances

There were a number of fun activities with our book this week.

 Cooper listed his favorite food as tomato soup.

 Caleb was very busy carrying "Jackson" in his box after completing his Frances mask.

Primary Colors

We're studying color in art. The boys made flags on white backgrounds using only primary colors. Noah's not miserable. He found this pose amusing:

 Cooper really wanted to make the American flag instead of his own design. He did use only primary colors - just not all of them.

 Cooper's been reading us a book a day:

Just another day...

Have we been doing school. Yes. Have I taken photos? Some. Have I downloaded them. Of course. Have they been posted on the blog. Obviously not. Fast forward to today.

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: