Letter Y

The theme we had for this week was yarn. A few of the books we read were: You Were Loved Before You Were Born by Eve Bunting and Karen Barbour, Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni, Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett, Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep by Teri Sloat, This Next New Year by Janet S. Wong. We also read Sometimes Y by Mary Elizabeth Salzmann.

Vocabulary words were yo- yo, year, you, yes, and young. We also looked at the color yellow with Hello, Yellow by Christianne C. Jones and Colors All Around Us: Yellow by Daniel Nunn.

Our sentences for the week were:
You are loved!
Where is the yarn?
Do yaks yodel?
The sun is yellow.

Our Bible verse was from Genesis 16:13, "You are the God who sees."

For science we had a yellow warbler, a yak, and yarrow flower up.

For art time we did some yarn painting. We put the yarn in paint, placed it on half a sheet of paper. I folded the paper in half and then we opened it up. The girls had a mirror image of the yarn paint. We also took some yarn around card stock and wove construction paper through it to make a weaving. The girls really enjoyed the yarn weaving.

Letter X

Extra special letter X! This letter is so hard. We didn't have a theme but we did have a poem.

Extra Special X
By Katrina Lybbert

Excellent, exciting letter X!
So extra special is letter X.
Fox, box, mix, wax,
Phlox, ox, six, tax.
Always an adventure to explore,
With letter X, which we adore!

Six Little Chicks by Jez Alborough, The Crayon Box that Talked by Shane De Rolf, Hattie and the Fox by Mem Fox, Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall, Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss, My "x,y,z" Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure, A Fox the Sound of X by Alice Flanagan,

Our Bible Verse was from Genesis 16:13 "You are the God who sees."

For science we looked at: fox, archaeopteryx, phlox.

Texas by Sarah Tieck

During our art time we took a letter X and made a xylophone. I also outlined the girls hands and gave them Q-tips to make x-rays of their hands. We also took some time to do a fun art project and finger paint a pumpkin for this fall weather we have been having. Oh yeah, I knew there was one more, we took some leaves from the backyard and glued them onto the edge of a paper plate to make a fall wreathe that we have been enjoying in our dining room. It looks nice when the light shines through the leaves into the room.