Library and Lessons

The library's story time this week

was ocean themed.  The librarian

read, 'Commotion in the Ocean'.

My daughter suddenly became

little miss talkative, and felt the

need to tell the other children that

crabs eat baby turtles, dolphins

circle their prey, and how her 

daddy is a scientist and let her

watch a video of a shark taking 

off a birds leg.  Ugh.  A little boy

cried, and another little boy had

to go sit next to his mom and far 

away from O.  Nice.

After that fun, the children made

octopi/jellyfish.

The finished product.  

O says it is an octopus.  

I say jellyfish.

And then there was schoolwork...

O had to replicate my pattern on

the hundred board.  This proved to be

a little tricky for her, mostly because

she lost focus...a lot.

O made a maze with Cuisenaire rods.

Then she walked Merida through it

without running into the old lady or bears.

After she made the stairs, we played a game.

She put her hands behind her back, and I placed

 one Cuisenaire rod in each of her hands, and without

looking she had to tell me what color it was.

She rather enjoyed this, and found it challenging.

Next, she made a bridge for her plastic pieces to cross.

We played the Montessori Snake Game.

This was her first time playing it, 

so I made getting to 10 super easy

by pairing a 1 with a 9, etc.

Each time she counted to 10, she replaced

the bars with golden 10 rods.

The goal being to make the rainbow colored

snake golden.

O traced the numbers on paint chips.

Paint chips have been part of our

school supplies since we started :)

There is always a use for them.

Does anyone else have what seems like a million 

stickers?  This was great to use up some of our stash.

She sorted stickers into the groups 'Animal' and 'Plant'.

This was exceptionally easy for her to do, but it gave

me a few minutes to prep other things.

We have been working on site words.

This method worked pretty well for colors.

First she traced the words in the corresponding colors.

She spelled the word, and said it.

Next, she painted the circles.

She spelled the word, and said it again.

She had to place a sticker next to the correct color.

She spelled the word, and said it again. (by this time she

thought it was a joke and laughed the whole time because

she thought I was crazy for making her spell and say

the color every time).

She then colored a section using colored pencils 

(then she spelled and said the color), 

crayon (spelled and said the color), 

and marker (and one more time for good measure).

Finally, we went on a scavenger hunt.  I placed post-its

with the words red, yellow, or blue on them.

She had no problem identifying the words, so I think the

crazy repetition worked :)