Week 14: Letter N

Our theme for this week was suppose to be about newspapers but A and E really didn't get into them. So we didn't focus on newspapers that much but just had fun looking for different words that began with the letter N. We did have some fun practicing how to write this letter and reviewing the letter M.

 

For our English time we read the following books: Best Nest by P.D. Eastman, Sweet Dreams by Rose A. Lewis, My N Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure, The Napping House by Audrey and Don Wood, and Too Much Noise by Ann McGovern. Our poem was "The Night Will Never Stay" by Eleanor Farjeon.

The night will never stay,
The night will still go by,
Though with a million stars
You pin it to the sky,
though you bind it with the blowing wind
And buckle it with the moon,
The night will slip away
Like a sorrow or a tune.

Our Bible story was about Noah. We had a good book called Noah's Ark by Linda Hayward that has very simple language that E really enjoyed. Our verse for the week was from 1 John 3:23 "Love one another."

For math time we practiced counting as high as we could go. After we got to around 40 A got bored and didn't want to count anymore. We also looked around the house for things that were black.

For science we looked at pictures of a narwhal, a numbat, a nigella (flower), and a nightingale.

For Social Studies we read about Florence Nightingale. There is a good book about her by Carol Alexander. We also decided to learn about nurses. We found two books that A and E really liked. A Day in the Life of a Nurse by Connie Fluet and Nurses by Cynthia Klingel and Robert B. Noyed.

We had a fun little project of making a necklace. We took some string and beads and the girls made really pretty necklaces. They had a little trouble threading the beads on because they were so small and the string kept fraying but they have enjoyed playing with their necklaces when we were finished.