So the first day of school... we took pictures (doesn't everyone??)
As to why I felt the need to make them wear shoes and backpacks.. I have no idea! Not like we actually "go" anywhere for school! Guess I just thought it was cute!
With Essa, I will be doing a letter of the week.. so she can learn all her letters and letter sounds! So first up... the letter A! We concentrated the core (no pun intended) on apples - so we made cute little apple cupcakes (thanks to Enoch who cut out all the apple shapes from fruit roll-ups)
We did apple taste testing - and graphed our results, apple sorting (by size), lace cards, letter match-ups, number trace cards, cut and past, and on and on and on. I have apples coming out of my ears ;-) We also (of course) worked on writing our letter "A"s. Enoch is working on his cursive, and Eleesia finished her writing early, so she was helping Essa write her As with shaving cream!
We are doing a HEAVY geography unit study this year- learning about all the continents and countries. But first off is a 2 week introduction (convering continents, oceans, etc). So we made a paper mache' earth!
(Complete with the continents painted on it and everything!)
Here is our completed globe:
We learned all about maps (mapping Enoch's room to scale and everything). Here.. the day was beautiful so we we headed ouside to map some contour lines!
We painted some ants!
And we celebrated what will supposedly be the last hot day for summer with some Ava Drug Store Ice Cream!
So there is a snidbit of what we've been learning about these past couple weeks! I'm excited- this will be our first week of country studies!
First up.. the great ol' US of A!
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