Week 18: The Letter R

For our 18th week we looked at the letter R. Our theme for the week was rainbow. We learned about the colors in the rainbow and made our own rainbow. 

For reading we read Rain by Robert Kalan, this is a very basic book with colors. E really enjoyed reading this book. My R Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure, Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco, and Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. We didn't really do a poem because of learning colors to the rainbow. We sang: red, orange, yellow, green and blue. Don't forget there's purple too! To help learn the order of the colors. 

Our music for the week was walking around the house singing Row, Row, Row Your Boat and I've Been Working on the Railroad. A and E really enjoyed putting motions to the song. 

For Bible time our scripture verse came from Deuteronomy 26:11 "And you shall rejoice in every good thing with the LORD your God has given you. We read about Ruth in our Bible too.

In our math time we learned about rectangles. We walked around looking for rectangles and discussing how there are two short sides and two long sides.

Our animals/plants for the week was: roadrunner, rose, raccoon, rhinoceros and rays. We enjoyed a book about Raccoons by Jean Claude O'Mara.

Betsy Ross by Wil Mara was popular to read. Lots of questions were asked about the flag which transitioned well into next week with the letter S. I will let you know what fun things we did with that soon!

For art time A and E made rainbows. We started by asking which color was first and then shredded up the color and pasted it onto paper. We continued through the rest of the colors placing them in their order. Since rainbows come after a storm we added some cotton balls for the clouds. Also we added a penny for the "gold" found at the end of the rainbow.