Wednesday, March 25, 2015

L is for Ladybug (2)



















Thursday was all about rainbows and octagons! First we reviewed the letter L, it's shape and sound. We used chalkboards to practice writing letter L. The boys loved reading "What Makes a Rainbow?"

We learned about the octagon shape. Stop signs, the octopod, and octopuses are all shaped like an octagon!

We tried a couple experiments with rainbows. First I used a CD and a flashlight to refract light to the wall. It was pretty cool but only for a moment or two. Then I tried to make rainbows with cream, food colors, soap, and Popsicle sticks. The experiment was a little too long for the boys. We ended up with six bowls of brown milk, due to excess stirring. Max did the best job at not stirring his milk. Our snack was a rainbow of fruit!

The best part was playing with rainbow spaghetti. The kids had a blast eating noodles and playing with the noodles. Jared got his hands full of noodles and chucked them. A couple noodles landed across the kitchen! Isaac was making me crack up...he shoved handfuls of noodles into his mouth. With his beanie he looked quite the character.

L is for Ladybug







The boys learned about the letter L, rainbows, and Octagons this week! Tuesday we read "The Grouchy Ladybug" about a ladybug who does not have good manners. He learns some matters at the end of the book. Then we took red spray painted rocks and decorated them to look like lady bugs. With our new lady bugs we sang "Ladybug, ladybug" about a ladybug who lands on different parts of our body.

To practice writing the letter L, the boys got to play with pudding on plates tracing the letter! Our craft was decorating a large letter L shape into a bug. Snack involved eating ladybugs. Gross! No really, the boys each had two apple wedges, then dipped raisins into peanut butter to stick on the apples. It was pretty tasty!

Everett and Phillip decided to attend preschool as the silver and green Power Rangers. The other boys wanted to play along!