Letter D

Sorry, it has been so long since my last post. We went through a bout of sickness here in the household. J was sick and thus decided to share her sickness with the rest of us. We are finally healthy somewhat and back to doing "school." This is some of what we did for the letter d.

Every week we begin our "school" with reading Abadaba Alphabet by Sheila Moore. It is a new book to our library and what I really like about it is that it teaches the sounds of the letters, not just the letters itself. So, she is learning the sounds of the letters which will help when she begins to learn to read.

We played a math counting game where we added dots to our Dalmatian after rolling some dice. The dots were buttons and then we compared who had more dots on their dogs.

J dug for dinosaur fossils in a sensory bin filled with rice. The fossil was actually a Burger King toy for Night at the Museum that I found awhile ago. It is the T-Rex and he glows in the dark-pretty cool.

J painted a dinosaur puppet that we made with brads.

Then we made binoculars from toilet paper tubes. Our binoculars are for our learning unit on the pond. We finished our unit on the farm and have moved on to learning about the pond. You can also see the beginning of our pond mural in the background on the floor. We made water by using blue plastic wrap and we will add pond animals as we learn about them.