9.4.1.

Last week of Kindergarten! GAH! Babe knows it, too! Here we go!


In Math we did a little bit more fraction work. I made one of her worksheets a bit more challenging (I had her color a specified fraction of each shape) and she breezed through it.

I don't care, though. haha. I'm going as slow as possible so she retains this info as much as possible. After some worksheets, I asked her to cut a cookie in half.


She did.

 

Her Mother Goose poem of the day was "Old King Cole." After she recited it, I had her help me cut out crowns for everyone. She started by cutting a sheet of paper in half! More practice! Woohoo! :)

Then Babe, Bubs, and Z all decorated their crowns.

 

 





















When they finished, I got out a bit of the moldable air-dry clay for each of them, then handed them a ball. I showed them how to make a bowl with their clay and ball. Bubs loved this and molded her bowl over and over, flattening her bowl then making it over again with her ball. Pretty cool activity and thought of in 60 seconds or less. haha.

Since we have to wait for the bowls to dry before we decorate them, there aren't any final pictures yet!


Outside play. Lunch.


After lunch, Babe and I headed outside to conclude our Spring Experiment. To our surprise, one of the plants actually produced a (miniature) bean! Can you guess which one?


The sand cup not only produced the consistently tallest plant throughout the experiment, but also produced the bean at last minute!


After she recorded her observations, she wrote a conclusion and realized her prediction was wrong. She wasn't too thrilled about being wrong...haha.


We then breezed through Reading Comprehension, but only after writing four sentences in her story (to make up for Friday).


We then discussed more animal behavior and habitats in Science. I read her "Our Nest" by Reeve Lindbergh (which is one of the best best best bedtime books ever), and the story helped her think of more animals that live in different habitats. With that, she completed her worksheets and we were done for the day.


Moving right along! Here we come, Tuesday!

9.1.1.

Here we go! Last month of the school year! Kindergarten! Almost over!


I'm giving Babe a break from structured Math this week, so next week we will continue with Chapter 5. I will be having her practice her subtraction throughout this week.


We started the day with discussing some literature terms - plot, genre, character, setting, illustrator, author, and title. I brought out four different books, and after I defined each term for her, I had her tell me the answer to each term with each book. She did this really well, and even remembered later on in the day what plot meant, as she was explaining to me the plot of a movie. We will continue this discussion for the rest of the week.


We then jumped to Science, where Babe was briefly introduced to the concept of constellations (after she named the planets in order, of course). I told her that long ago, people looked at the stars and made pictures out of them, and they are known today as constellations. She was in love with this idea, and after she did her related worksheet, I set up a craft that I knew she'd love.

I then set all three kids up with a large sheet of black paper and a bottle of glue. I gave them free reign, only telling them to cover their paper with glue dots. Everyone loves to glue, so this was an easy and fun task for each of them.


I told them this was only part one of this craft, and we would have to wait until tomorrow to finish it. I remember doing something like this when I was in school and loved it, so I'm excited for them to finish it. You'll have to wait until tomorrow to see what part two is all about. 

 

When we cleaned up, Babe added her last book of April to her Reading Log - "Love Waves" by Rosemary Wells. Babe only got stuck on the word 'mysterious.' I was very impressed. I told her First Grade starts short chapter books!

She gasped.

"Like Harry Potter?!"

ha! She's dying to start reading them but I told her she's still a bit too young to read those. I wouldn't be surprised if it happened sooner than later though.

After lunch, we then headed outside to measure the plants in our Spring Experiment, where the sand cup is growing steadily. Babe made an excellent observation today too. I asked her which plant was tallest.

"The sand cup is tallest, but look, the soil cup's plant is much wider."

And she was exactly right. The bean plant is growing out more in the soil, but the bean plant in the sand cup is growing taller. Very interesting.

And with that, the day was over. I gave them all a quick catnap before dance. Another busy weekend ahead and we have to kick this sickness in the butt!