LOTW-Letter E with Tert and Stella

Note: If you haven't seen LOTW-Letter A Post, please check that out first!
It's time already! LOTW- Letter E for Elephants is now here :-D

We started out the week with our large floor numbers.  Tert is starting to recognize numbers!

Next Filia joined us for a little coloring...

Time for Color-by-Numbers Sheet!

 Both of them were very proud!

 Then it was time for the Letter E Geoboard Activity.  Tert did this one all by himself! Nice job Tert!

 ~Next it was Do-A-Dot time~

Then it was time for Uppercase/Lowercase Letter Disc Match

 Next came patterns :-)

Then he did his poke page...

 -Next it was Pre-writing time-

Next we did a Letter E Scavenger Hunt with Rus...

...which was completed with just ONE broken Egg (ahem)

Here is the list of things we found on the Scavenger Hunt: an Elephant, Egg, Eeyore, Eraser, and Envelope!

 Next it was time for graphing :-)

I had him graph the color of the elephants in order (blue elephant/blue square, red elephant/red square, etc.)

 Next we did color match. I cut the elephants in half and he had to match the colors to find the elephants ;-)

 Then we did the Cut 'N Paste Page...

 ...which he was VERY proud of!

 Size Sort :P

 Magnet Page (come back next week and I'll post some more about this one)

 Then we did Clip Cards with Paperclips 

 Hmmm....

 We ended our week with reading Chicka-Chicka Boom Boom and dashing to the coconut tree...

 ...where we put up our Letter of the Week :)

Great Job Tert!  I look forward to teaching you next week's preschool...I for Inchworms ;)

PS from Mom:  I was doing an extra activity with Tert.  He was certain that  he "couldn't" think of a single word that began with the letter G.  After several futile prompts on my part, his eyes lit up, and he said, "I know!!  G-G-GILGAMESH!"  I guess he has been picking up on some of his Big Sis's Omnibus studies on the side.  ;)

School Projects

Hello Readers!

Now that school is in full swing, I'm trying to keep up with all of the pictures that we've been taking of the various activities and projects that we've done. So, here is a compilation of some of the things we've been up to ;-)

 Leo, Rus and I all made and painted frescoes on wet plaster. This was a form of art the Minoans used to depict motion like bull leaping.  This related to the boys' study of this people group. Leo and Rus had been working on them, and I decided to paint the extra one they made...

-Painting-

 Stella's Plaster

Leo's Plaster

Tert's drawing (This 'was' Theseus fighting the Minotaur in the labyrinth. He said that he wanted to paint it so that it gave him a stomach ache to look at it. I think he succeeded...)

 Leo and Rus made 'pottery' out of modeling clay like the Mycenaeans. They did a great job on their projects!

Rus' on the left and Leo's on the right. Tert wanted to make something, so I helped him roll out a snake ;-)

 ~Rus works on his math~

 Filia and Tert LOVE playing with Bubber, the new 'Playdough.' It is SOOO easy to clean up. It makes very little mess, and doesn't dry out!  It is expensive, so we only have one color, but it comes in two huge balls per container.  

 

Playing with the ice cream set from Grandma and Grandpa P. ;-) 

 Beautiful smile!

 Filia loves to read the 'Bubble' (Bible) She'll come in every day as I'm reading my Omnibus, or working on Math and ask, "Where Sissy's Bubble?"

 Maze Time!

 First Math Test...

 SUCCESS!!!

 This is a 'zoo' the boys created.  All the animals are in their habitats (the boys will tell you more about this in a later post ;) )

 The boys have really enjoyed their Apologia Science this year. Leo and Rus work together (Leo at the Intermediate Level and Rus at the Beginner's Level)

This project is a camoflauge experiment.  I hid some Skittles inside pieces of tissue paper and then stepped back to take pics :-)

Leo set the timer...

...and then the lions (boys) dove into the grasslands (laundry basket) to find their prey (Skittles...)

 ROAR!

 

 We soon discovered why the female lions do the hunting....

The boys discovered which jellybeans were the easiest to find and which were the hardest (like the purple ones :) ) This demonstrated which animal species would be the most likely to die out and which would live longest due to camoflauge. 

Okay, enough science: LET'S EAT!

We've had fun with our various school projects, and we hope you've enjoyed reliving them with us ;-)