More Penguins

We are still plugging away at school. It has been rainy and wet and there was a hint of possible snow. But no go. So, we are waiting for snow, just a little to make life interesting, something new to play with on the balcony. We are still learning about penguins which J has really gotten into. She has started calling me Mama Penguin and renaming her meal items sardines or fish of some sort. She is wearing her penguin mask and because of her doing that so often lately, Kaleb isn't as terrified as he was before.

We are working on our addition. I printed out some math cards with missing addends. We used blocks to determine the missing number under the yellow question mark. This concept is a little hard for her since it is addition with the answer first. She does better with the traditional what plus what equals.....

J received a set of Inchimals for Christmas. These are clever blocks that vary in length and each one has an animal on it. These blocks help introduce measurement as well as addition and subtraction. J went around on Christmas day, measuring people's feet. It was cute. So our math has introduced inches and measuring with a ruler and we are doing extra practice.

We are working with the words I and see. I found an easy reader that contained those simple  words - I see books, I see ..... Well, it had an extra page at the end and I had J create her own I see page. This is what she came up with...(love the tongue)

I see Grandma. Looks like her, J said she had to have short hair cause her Grandma had short hair.

We practiced our sight words using the penguin game I made before. She is hoping she doesn't get a shark hence the face. If you get a shark, your penguin gets eaten.

We colored a penguin poster with all of the 17 breeds of penguins known. She is matching the penguins to the ones she is coloring. We discussed the differences and even saw some funny looking ones!

Here she is with her completed poster. She was so proud of it, she hung it in her bedroom. She had to hang it high because of little brothers who like to stand on her bed and tear down everything in reach. We rounded off our week with a little trip to the Embassy. J's passport was expired so we had to make the trek to get a new one. It was a bad trip, just long and early hours. It should be here in a week then we get to make the visit to renew her visa. The Embassy is always a nice visit, the people are friendly and helpful. It seems like a little bit of America, hard to explain if you haven't experienced it. So back to the real world....