We are currently reading The Wizard of Oz. We are trying to read at least one chapter a day. Listening to MiMi read, I realize that we need to work on sentence syntax. She will put pauses or emphasis where there shouldn't be or just read a flow of words when she should have stopped.
The kids painted tornadoes yesterday. They learned how lines can make show movement.
Here's my tip of the day:
If you don't have paper plates or an art palette wrap a regular plate with saran wrap. Clean up is easy.
After the paint dried the kids drew a swirling pattern with gray marker over the lines.
MiMi's:
Bobo's:
Yesterday we read the tornado books and today we reviewed the important aspects from the book. We divided a manila piece of paper into three columns: Warning signs of a tornado (For Bobo I drew eyes since he can't read), Safety Dos (checkmark) Safety dont's). I wrote out phrases from the book (drew pictures for BoBo) and they kids categorized them.
We all know that Dorthy kills the Wicked Witch of the East. We used that as a stepping stone to learn compass points. This is something that we will continue to work on as we slowly learn about the US states. So far the kids only know Kansas, Texas and New Hampshire. I was only able to ask a few questions such as, "Kansas is _______ of Texas."
I think the kids enjoyed making the scarecrows the most.
We just used paper sacks and filled it up with paper to be recycled. We then tied the top with a terry band. The kids added the features.
Here is a good book to introduce brain functions:
Over all a productive two days with still a lot to cover. The kids aren't bored yet! I just feel like I'm lacking on the brain still. I don't want to be too elaborate, but I still feel like I can still do more.
