Madeline

First, I would like to say thank you for all of of family and friends that wrote to make sure we were okay after the earthquake. We did not feel a thing on this side of T. It is nice to know that we have people who care. Thanks, guys!


Our book for the week is Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans. We will be learning about France, germs, manners, and spiders. We started with our rhyming words. J wanted to write the word "map" herself so she did.

We are working on correct formation of her letters, still a work in progress but not too bad. She found the letters to build the word and then wrote it again.

We practiced our number writing along with the rhymes that go with it.

And we worked on different ways we could add to make the number two.

We read our book, Madeline and I had made her some Madeline paper dolls that I downloaded from the Internet (sorry no link). She was intrigued with this and kept pulling them out to change the outfits and such.

Since our story takes place in Paris, we learned about several of France's landmarks and found them in the book! It was interesting to find these historical buildings beyond the typical Eiffel Tower. We made a mini book with actual pictures.

I found a paper Paris city from the blog Made by Joel. I printed it onto cardstock and we colored it with markers. Folded, the city stands. It was pretty cool, complete with an Eiffel Tower.

J made everybody blue since we didn't have a marker for our skin color. She also drew dogs by some of the people.

As a family activity, after dinner, I supplied them with frosting and some vanilla wafers. They were to build an Eiffel Tower. Here are our creations...

Keke is a perfectionist but it didn't work like she thought.

DH was alittle competitive. He thinks everything is a contest. All in all, we had fun and afterwards, we ate the wafers with some ice cream. We still have a ton of learning fun to do, stay tuned....:)