Week 17: The Letter Q

The letter Q. Q is an interesting letter but not very much to it when it comes to young children. We found two themes this week, queens and quilts!

We had trouble coming up with some vocabulary words this week that A and E knew. We came up with: quack, quick and quarter. We had trouble finding some books but were able to come up with a few: Q by Kelly Doudna, Quack the Sound of Q by Cynthia Klingel and Robert Noyed, and The Kindness Quilt by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace. Our poem was the Queen of Hearts:

The Queen of Hearts
She made some tarts,
      All on a summer's day;
The Knave of Hearts
He stole those tarts,
     And took them clean away.
The King of Hearts
Called for the tarts,
     And beat the knave full score;
The Knave of Hearts
Brought back those tarts,
     And vowed he'd steal no more.

For Bible time we read about Queen Esther. We read a book called Queen Esther the Morning Star by Mordecai Gerstein. The book was a little old for A and E but A enjoyed it and we are still reading it this week. Our Bible verse came from Luke 6:31 - Do to others as you would have them do to you.

For science we were a little lacking with only a quoll (think something like a squirrel) and a Queen Conch for our animals.
 
In math we worked on rectangles. We practiced drawing rectangles, cutting out rectangles and counting rectangles around the house. We also went around and counted how many quilts we have!