Week Two: The Letter B

For week two we have had so much fun learning about BUTTERFLIES!

For our vocabulary we learned about wings, thorax, antenna and we even added chrysalis after we learned about them! I found a great nursery rhyme about Butterflies called Butterfly, Butterfly. We found some great books: Blackberry Banquet by Terry Pierce (this was more up to E's speed), Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey, and Cowgirl Rosie and Her Five Baby Bison by Stephen Gulbis.

For music we sang Take Me Out to the Ball Game, All Things Bright and Beautiful, and Baa Baa Black Sheep.

For our Bible story we read about the Tower of Babel and our memory verse was: Psalm 150:6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

For science we looked at bluebirds, buttercups, bluebells, bison, beluga whales and beavers. We read some books that related to butterflies. I liked doing this because we talked about the lifecycle of a butterfly and added a little more science in. A also really enjoyed this too.

For math we looked at the number two. We took out her blocks and made stacks of two all over the floor. When we were done we counted all of them up! We also talked about what objects came in twos. We also worked on more or less. I would take different objects and place them in different groups. One group would have maybe three of the same thing and the other would only have one. (We didn't get very large piles.) I then asked her which was more or less and alternated and mixed up what I was asking.  I  Instead of a shape this week we did a color. Can you guess what it is? Yes, it was BLUE! We walked around the house and yard looking for whatever we could find that was blue.

For social studies we learned about Ben Franklin. While we were reading about him A made a comment that he was born in Massachusetts just like Johnny Appleseed!

We also talked about bread a little bit and how it was made and the work required to make it. During the week we took a little "field trip". The only bakery I could think of was our local Panera. So we went around lunch time and got a bagel, yep it starts with B too, to eat. After we were done and the restaurant had cleared out we went up and looked around some more. I showed her all of the different kinds of bread, we were able to see the oven a little, some of the materials sitting out and a large cooling rack. She really enjoyed seeing everything we had talked and read about. We will definitely try to keep doing this more often. 

For our activity this week we baked bread. A and E were not as interested in this activity as the ones we did last week so I think we need to go back to more artsy projects!

Well, we are moving on to the letter C!