Sonlight Week 2

Our second week is well underway and we are having fun. I have added some activities to the regular schedule, not because I felt that Sonlight was lacking in activities but because literature is my true love. I felt like we should incorporate some activities with books.

In addition to our regular math, we are exploring different ways to represent numbers. I found this great mini number book. Every day we work with two numbers and discuss ways we can represent them. We write tally marks, dot patterns, number words, number sentences, and dots on a ten frame. We use dominoes to see the different number sentences we can create. They are a great visual for our math.

B is the chosen letter of the week for the Sonlight curriculum. She practiced writing upper and lower case "b's" and created a page with pictures we found in magazines.

In Science, we read about light and weather. We learned the correct order of colors for a rainbow. This ties in nicely with learning our color words.

We even created a rainbow with a prism that I had from my teaching days. She thought this was especially cool.

We learned about early settlers. J wove a basket from paper. This was a little difficult for her which surprised me. Last week when she sewed her dress seemed to be an easier task than the basket. But we got through it. Maybe I should have chosen a place mat to weave instead of a basket.

This picture is how are day looks. Kaleb pushes the small kid chair to the table and stands on it to see what we are doing. He insists on coloring or trying to do what J is doing. If he doesn't get results, he will grab what she has and run.

One of our read-alouds for Sonlight is The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner. I was concerned because of her age but she has loved this book. She constantly begs for more than one chapter a day. This is a project that we did so she could act out the story. We made our own boxcar from a tissue box and we used items from her toys to create the scene. She has been playing with this all week.

In Social Studies, we are reading about the Egyptians. Here is J's name using hieroglyphics. Discovery Kids has a hieroglyphic page where you can type in your child's name and print out what it would look like in Egyptian. Cool!

I found some Egyptian paper dolls that J colored from Practical Pages.

And here is her Egyptian headband from First Palette. I knew she would love this, her favorite animal is a King Cobra. She wore this headband all through lunch. We completed our week with some Science experiments. We have definitely been busy. Hope your week went well too. Happy Sonlight!