So first off, let it be known that whatever kid hid the camera cord is hereby known as the queen (or king) of hide-and-go-seek. Over a week later, and it’s nowhere to be found. So, a brand new card reader was bought today and now I can finally get pictures off the camera! Now it’s time to play catchup. So, here are the pictures that were supposed to be posted a week ago. 🙂
Bug using watercolor paints to color her Caterpillar C.
A leaf matching work--I put 2 of each shape/color silk leaf on a tray for the girls to match.
Using an eye dropper to transfer the water from one jar to the other.
Since we were learning about autumn and the changing leaves, I brought out a tray from the botany cabinet so the girls can match the leaf shapes
The girls painting
Monkey working on her letter C book
Dot painting the letter C
Monkey using the eye dropper
All three kids changing the seasonal tree from the green leaves of summer to the red/yellow/orange leaves of fall.
The sensory bin was also changed from the summer sand/beach theme to the autumn theme. It has straw in it (in the craft aisle at major craft stores), small plastic colored leaf beads, silk leaves, gords, wooden vegetables (from the toy kitchen), and various scoops/rakes/containers
The kids' new favorite work--raking leaves! Since we don't have any large trees on our property yet (and thus no leaves to rake), I filled a pan with silk leaves. The kids then throw the leaves in the air and use the small rake to rake them up.
Bug tossing the leaves in the air.
The seasonal tree fully decorated.
The girls playing in the sensory bin.
The kids also got to see a little wildlife. Our new neighbors were excavating for their landscaping and accidentally destroyed a rabbit nest. After rescuing the baby bunnies, they called us over so the kids can see them (such awesome new neighbors...they've only lived there a couple months and they've already call us for homeschool science lessons!)
We ended our unit on the letter C the way anyone would...by making c shaped chocolate chip cookies covered in chocolate icing. Monkey hasn't forgotten the letter C yet, so I'd say this worked. 😉
Our autumn math work...pumpkin patch counting! This is based of the numerals and counters work. I printed out 11 identical close-up pictures of a pumpkin patch. On each picture, I wrote a number from 0-10. Since our children are also quite young, I wrote an x for each number in the patch. Then, using foam pumpkins, Bug and Monkey place the correct number of pumpkins in each patch to match the number written on each card.
A close-up of the work. This is the '5' card, and so there are 5 x's in the patch. A pumpkin goes on each x. If the child is older or can recognize numbers, you wouldn't need to put the x's on.
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