Letter Ss Week(s)

For the past two weeks Letter Ss has been our focus. It was inspired by our recent vacation to Snow Mountain and the Georgia Aquarium. Juilan got to see snow for the first time and went tubing and then at the aquarium he got to touch and feed, stingrays, sea urchins and sharks.

Some of the things we did this week:

• Exercise: Stomping, swinging our arms, skipping (not pictured)
• Music: Singing songs (not pictured)
• Science: Spring into Spring (planted a smalll garden) and make our sea life.
• Geography: South Africa - We went to Busch Gardens and talked about the entire continent, but labeled South Africa - more to come on geography.
• Reading: My "S" Sound Box, Mister Seahorse, The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School
• Math: Sorting objects by patterns, textures, colors and size and counted using stickers. Trace different shapes.

• Arts & Crafts: Stamping, stickers letters, sponge painting.

This was our first week participating in Muffin Tin Mondays.

Since there was no theme this week, we did our own.

Keeping in theme with our letter of the week.

• Soup
• Strawberries
• Spam (which I know I have an avid fan of spam!! LOL)
• Scoopy Doo Snacks

This sea urchin was made using tin foil and toothpicks. He decided to paint it purple since most of the sea urchins he saw at the aquarium are purple.

Ok, so its not officially spring, but I wanted to get started on the spring garden and the back of the veggie envelope said to plant our carrots, tomatoes and beans in March. So we did. They have already started to poke out!

Sink or Float

I bought a $1 book from the dollar bins at Target and it was about Reptiles - Snakes, crocs & lizards. As we were reading this book there was a section about Basalik lizards and how they can run on water. Julian thought that was a hoot and asked to see videos of how they do that (which I love that he asked that on his own). While we were watching the video he came up with the idea of testing things that would sink or float.

It became a whirlwind and before I knew HE had set up everything for this experiment (except the water and the labels).

I asked him to predict what would float and what would sink. Then after we talked about why certain things float / sink.

Bird Feeder

Inspired by the bird feeder that Julian gave me as a present for Christmas, he decided he wanted to make his own.

He lathered a toilet paper roll in peanut butter and rolled it in bird seeds.

It turned out to be a cute quick FREE craft.