Back to School

We have finally got down to business and began school again. I waited an extra week because my DS was still here from the holidays and I wanted to spend as much time as possible with him before he left. So, this week, we began our FIAR book - Papa Piccolo by Carol Talley. We also began our unit study on Penguins which we will continue through the month of January.

I wrote down all of the things that J knew about penguins. Then J began coloring her penguin mask.

She colored the whole thing and then cut it out herself.

I put it together and J loved it. She jumped around the house honking like a penguin. Kaleb on the other hand, did not like it. Even though, J kept showing him that she was the one behind the mask, he kept crying every time she put it on.

I guess it does look alittle scary, especially with the 3-d beak. We then played a penguin math game. She used counters to figure the math problems and then placed the penguins on the correct place on the iceberg. We also made some matches so the penguins could find their mate.

She had to determine the answer to keep the penguins from the sharks!

We began our prereading lessons again. We are learning the sight words I and see. J colored the sight words and used letters to construct the words.

The penguin mask and other items for this study was found in Easy Make and Learn Projects: Penguins by Donald Silver. I downloaded this book when Scholastic was having their $1 sale. It has a large amount of penguin projects which we will be doing the next few weeks. The penguin math game was found at Kidssoup which is a paid subscription site. See you soon.