19th September, 2008
I am just going to stop numbering the weeks ;)
This week we have been concentrating our studies on Butterflies. Because Danielle got her caterpillars in from her birthday butterfly house! For the life of me, I can’t seem to get a good pictures of said caterpillars, and they are in their pupa stage now, so the picture would be rather boring 
Of course, all of this was in addition to Danielle’s regular studies. In Social Studies we are talking about maps, globes and our place in the world. In Science we are studying how living things meet their needs. She is rocking math, with the less then and greater then alligator trick. Reading lately had been 50% her regular reading lessons, and 50% working on her butterfly lapbook. Spelling and handwriting bring up the rear with some eye rolling and tantrum throwing, but it gets done, LOL!
We decorated our own butterflies
Jack LOVES using the glue stick, too bad I didn’t’ get the picture of him with tissue glued to his fingers, LOL!
Shraddha made a very symmetrical butterfly. 
Finished Butterflies, hanging to dry. We also talked about Chickens, because September is National Chicken Month, and Shraddha brought us some shells from her chickens for show and tell!
Everyone colored their own chickens 
Then we named them, and decided what color eggs they layed (since not all chicken eggs are brown or white!) 
We also colored pictures of chrysalis to commemorate our caterpillars transformation 
Posted at 10:14 pm | Comment (1)
On October 8, 2008 at 1:06 am Angela said:
October 8, 2008 at 1:06 am
I love that you have pics of the kids doing their projects and then the finished project. Its also great how everything ties together. ….. be it by letter or by topic. Cool!
and so fun… look at how interested they are! good job mama!