Heart Day

This week started with Valentine's Day. I had an eventful day, we basically spent a good portion of it in the doctor's office. But, when we got home, Keke and J had a late dinner planned on our balcony. They decorated the balcony with lights, a table, and some chairs. They made dinner for us, served us and gave us wonderful cards for Valentine's Day. I fail to mention that it was freezing outside and we ate dinner in our winter coats, hats, and long johns. But it was nice for them to think about us. We ended our dinner with a cup of coffee and a sit by the heater (to defrost). I have a few pics of what we have been doing this week.

We played a silly sentence game. I found it here.. I printed and laminated the cards and put them into piles. We chose a card from each pile and made up silly sentences. This one was "A green booger monster met a skunk in a hot air balloon while riding a magic carpet." They were silly and we had fun making them up. We laughed at them and sometimes added things.

We are still working on recognition of the alphabet and hand/eye coordination. She is connecting the letters in order.

We are comparing numbers here. This is the last week of our pond unit and I found these fish erasers. She chose 2 numbers to compare, put the fish under the number and then decided which one was greater. This aids in one to one correspondence and visual discrimination.

We finished our pond mural!!! yay! We added our two adult turtles and a baby turtle. I think it turned out pretty cute and we had fun learning about the animals that live in the pond. Now, we are off to visit the zoo! We will begin our zoo unit next week. As an added bonus, we bought a video here and inside, there was a coupon for a free visit to the zoo. So, I am hoping we will make a zoo visit sometime soon.

We have been watching old episodes of Jeff Corwin lately. We have season one and two of his show. I had bought them awhile ago and we had never watched them all. So, now at lunch, we watch an episode while we eat. J has been learning alot about animals. We were playing like we were naturalists trying to capture snakes and here baby Kaleb has captured two! He is wrestling them to the ground....

But, he has decided to eat him instead. Yum, he tastes pretty good, good thing he wasn't venomous.

One last photo,,,sorry about the red eye. I didn't have time to fix the photo. Again, this cute, smiling baby photo was taken by my talented daughter, Keke. She can always get him to smile. You can just see his two dimples that show when he is truly smiling (and alittle drool).