Letter R

Letter R

This is going to be a quick blog on what we did during letter R week. I am actually a week late on posting, so letter S will follow shortly! We started our week with a trip to the museum for Ava's monthly home school Monday class. It was a great class on the five senses. It was a perfect topic because that it what we are learning about at home right now! During R week we focused on learning about rain. We read some great rain themed books and looked at the water cycle. I have limited pictures for the activities we worked on throughout the week. This month has proved to be quite scheduled with meetings and a lot of foster care commitments. We have found ourselves 

squeezing school activities where time allowed. 

After reading the book, Who Likes Rain By: Etta Kaner, I asked Ava and Dominic to answer the question "Why do you like playing in the rain?" They dictated their answer to me to write and then illustrated it. It wasn't surprising both put they like the puddles! Here is Ava's illustration of her jumping in the puddles on a rainy day. 

This is Dominic's illustration of him jumping in the puddles. 

One of our math activities this week was adding the correct number of raindrops  to the umbrellas. We focused on numbers 0-15. Since it was Valentine's Day week we used heart counters as raindrops. It also went with the book we read, The Day it Rained Hearts By: Felicia Bond. 

After talking about how the clouds form and the rain falls, we created rain clouds using cotton balls. We hung  raindrops from the clouds and dabbed gray paint on the cotton to make the clouds look darker. Both kids enjoyed gluing the cotton balls. 

One of the finished rain clouds! 

Ava practiced writing capital and lowercase Rs.

On Valentine's Day we worked on graphing using conversation hearts. Ava had to sort and graph the hearts based on color. Oddly enough we found that the colors descended from left to right. There were a lot of pinks and only one purple! 

We used the conversation hearts to create patterns. Here is one of Ava's ABC patterns. 

Like I mentioned, we read the book The Day It Rained Hearts. At the end of the story the little girl finds heart trees. We made our own heart trees. For the tree branches and trunk, we painted Ava and Dominic's hand and arm and pressed it against the paper. They they glued hearts on the branches.