Graphing, Sorting and Colors were learned with Jelly Beans.... lots of fun!

I'm not really a fan of Nursery rhymes but I remember it being part of the curriculum in kindergarten so I thought we'd learn a few. Little Miss Muffet and Humpty Dumpty so far the boys seem to really like saying the rhymes OVER and OVER and OVER again so glad I thought them:)

Some Christmasy Projects

Marshmellow Snowmen or in Mason's case Marshmellow Pirate Ship

Study of Jan Brett's The Gingerbread Baby

Number Christmas Tree's

Candy Corn Patterns

fun to do and eat then found patterns in things all around our home

This fall we started our Alphabet letters again this time focusing on not only the letter but the sound it makes. All the while relating it to books and real life objects when possible. We read books about planes, played with planes, made paper towel and tin foil planes and then put together a wooden plane with Daddy.
other letters we have done....

B is for Bugs/Babies

C is for Cars/Cameras

D is for Dinosaurs

E is for Eyeballs

F is for Fire/Food

This fall we enjoyed our beautiful falling leaves and their various colors. One of our favorites books to read this time of year is Red Leaf Yellow Leaf. So we did our interpretation with sugar cookies and messy frosting.

Paint Sample Collages

1.steal paint samples of store

2.cut up into random shapes

3.let children glue on however they choose

At the top of my list of crafts I want my children to learn and love is ...

Hard Work

Art

and

Cooking...

Butter me Up!
We made butter by adding cream and salt together in a Ziploc bag (I double bagged them) and then shook like crazy for 15 minutes. Put it in the fridge to cool and then eat it on some delicious strawberry bread we made the day before.

Learning about Money!

Read a great book "Benny's Pennies", practiced counting money and made coin rubbings with crayons and paper of all different kinds of coins.

Fruit Puzzles

A Unit Project: For the Birds

Because of a certain little Robin Bird that decided to build a nest on our gutter we had quite an interest in birds throughout the spring. We watched as the mother sat on her eggs, to them hatching, and the most fun was watching the mother feed worms to her babies. Soon they grew up and we watched as they practiced flying and eventually left an empty nest. So throughout this we did a different thing each day to learn more and have fun with birds. We made a book with bird stickers, practiced writing bird related words, drew our observations of the birds and there nest. We collected things in our yard to make a nest like the bird with watered down glue, grass, sticks, weeds etc... From the Martha Stewart line we made balloon birds and pom pom birds and once the real nest fell had lots of fun playing "pretend" birds in a real nest. Tweeterific Fun!!!

Cooking Class:

Mason learned how to and cooked himself scrambled eggs, with close supervision of course.