Letter D

Dazzling letter D! How much fun have we had with the letter D. We had another great round of books again this week with: Dashing Dog by Margaret Magy, Lucky Ducklings by Eva Moore, One Duck Stuck by Phyllis Root, The Digging-est Dog by Al Perkins, My"d" Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure, and Daisy, My Dad, and the Letter D by Cynthia Klingel and Robert B. Noyed. Our vocabulary words were: dog, deer, deep, desk, and dive. The girls enjoyed their sentences this week, especially the last one!

Don't wake the dinosaur!
Dingos dig in the dirt.
The dolphin dove.
Drive down the dam?
Don't dig in the dirt!
Daisy Duck kissed E!

Our poem for the week was:
Down in the dell
Sat the little doggie Nell
There she dillied and she dallied all
Day, day, day.
She dug up a bone
And dashed away home
Where down in her bed she did
Lay, lay, lay.

Our bible verse was from Psalm 118:24 "This is the day the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it. We also read the story about Daniel

For science time we looked at a dove, dolphin, dahlia and donkeys. We read about Bottlenose Dolphins by Edana Eckart, A Pod of Dolphins by Matthew Fenner, Life in the Desset by Alison Auchapel.

In math we looked at the number 16 and  read about Days by Pam Scheunemann and A Day by Robin Nelson.

Our social studies time we read about Walt Disney by Sarah Tieck. We also learned about Dentists by Cari Meistersinger.

Letter W

Wonderful letter W! A and E really liked our poem this week:

When the wind is in the east,
'Tis neither good for man nor beast;
When the wind is in the north,
The skilful fisherman goes not forth;
When the wind is in the south,
It blows the bait in the fishes' mouth;
When the wind is in the west,
The 'tis at the very best.

Our vocabulary words were: walk, water, west, and winter. We enjoyed reading The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins and Nice Wheels by Gwendolyn Hooks. This book was easy enough for A and E to read. We also did a lot of writing this week:

I went walking.
We had winter weather.
The water is warm.
Do you walk in the winter?
The west wind blows.
Jesus walks on water!

Our Bible verse was: "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly. Colossians 3:16 and we read about Jesus walking on water.

We did a lot of science reading books this week: Earth's Water Cycle by Robin Nelson, The Water Cycle by Craig Hammersmith, Water by Robin Nelson, Wind by Erin Edison, Wolves by William Ripple, Whales by Cari Meister, and Winter by Ann Herriges. We also looked at walrus, warthog, wolf, woodpecker and watsonia.

In our social studies time we read about George Washington by Pamela Hill Nettleton,
Washington by Susan Labella, Wright Brothers by Lisa Wade McCormick. We looked at maps with a book called - World Atlas by Nick Crane

A Week by Robin Nelson also was good to go over the days of the week. We also practiced parallelograms.

For art time we made snow flakes for the winter season. I had A and e draw three lines on a piece of paper.  I had them draw one across, one from top to bottom, then diagonally through the other two lines. The girls cut out pieces of aluminum foil and glued them to the lines to make the snowflake. We also make watermelons. I cut out a red letter W. The girls drew a line around the outside of the letter W and then color it in with green to make the rind. The girls drew black dots on the W to make the seeds.

A cutting out pieces to glue on for her snowflake.

E practicing cutting for her snowflake.

E and A showing off their snowflakes.

A coloring around her W to make the rind for her watermelon.

E coloring her watermelon seeds.

Letter M

Magnificent letter M! Our theme for the week was moon. Faces of the Moon by Bob Crelin was really good for explaining the moon phases and when they can be seen during the day. The Mitten by Jan Brett and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff are always fun.  Munch! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming was a fun book we read this week. Our vocabulary words for the week were: mouse, monkey, music, mirror, moon, mitten and mountain.

We had some fun sentences this week to write:

The mice saw the men.
The manatee moved!
Mommy went marching.
Smell the marigolds.
I went to the moon.
We moved on Monday.

Our poem is one of my favorites and went well with our theme this week:

I see the moon
and the moon sees me.
God bless the moon
and God bless me.

When I see the moon
and the stars so bright,
I thank the Lord
for day and night.

In our Bible time we read about Moses. Our Bible verse came from Colossians 3:2 "your minds on things above, not on earthly things."

 

For our math time we learned about All About Money by Erin Roberson. This book was great for introducing the values of the coins and did some early addition with coins. We also read Months by Robin Nelson. We also greatly enjoyed singing the months song.

Mars the Red Planet by Lincoln James

Face to Face with Manatees by Brian Skerry was one of our science books. The text was pretty dense and a little bit above A and E but it was good for pulling out bits of information to tell them about manatees. We also looked at mockingbird, moose, marigolds, manatees and muskrat.

We didn't do an art project to go along with the letter M. But we did make our own snowflakes to go along with this winter season.

A coloring her snowflake.

E putting some sparkly stickers on her snowflake.

The finished snowflakes.