Very Last First Time (part 1)

Our FIAR book this week is Very Last First Time by Jan Andrews. It is a book about an Inuit girl who walks alone beneath the frozen ice searching for mussels. She quickly becomes disoriented and can't find her way back to the ice hole. It discusses fears and how she overcame hers to find the way out of the ice. This story takes place in Canada and we have been learning alittle bit about the country.

J is coloring a Canadian flag - love that tongue sticking out! We are reading about the Inuit culture and J wrote the singular/plural forms of Inuit people (singular - Inuk) I just wanted you to see her handwriting. She has been practicing.

We are learning about bats this week for Science and here are some of the activities we have been doing. We read Stellaluna by Janelle Cannon. It is about a bat who is raised by a bird family. We discussed the differences between bats and owls (we studied those last week) and we filled in a Venn diagram.

We discussed carnivores, herbivores, and ominvores and created a mini book about them.

We worked on color words and colored bats to put in numerical order. We are working on recognizing larger numbers (past ten).

We discussed diurnal and nocturnal animals. She cut out animals and glued them in the correct area.

Our game for the week is Boggle Jr. It comes with letter cubes and cards with three to five letter names. We did not play the traditional way but I placed a card in the holder. Then I sounded the word out for her and let J determine the letters for each sound.

We will work with this for awhile. This is good practice for her reading skills. We mainly focused on bats so far but we will be learning more about our book this week.