Monday- 10/22/2007- Friday- 10/26/2007

We are taking a break this week. We will start back up with the letter H next Monday.

Friday- 10/19/2007

Today, we visited the Myriad Botanical Gardens in Oklahoma City. It was really neat! They had lots of flowers, trees, and plants of all kinds as well as some animals such as parrots, lizards, and butterflies.

Thursday- 10/18/2007

OFF

Wednesday- 10/17/2007

Today, for art, we made a garden stone. This turned out to be a lot harder then I thought it was going to be. It turns out that the stone mix dries remarkably fast, so you have to do everything in super sonic speed which just doesn't work well with a playful, energetic three year old! We had fun though, made a big mess, and learned a lot!

Tuesday- 10/16/2007

Today, we had Circle Time and then for handwriting we did some worksheets and wrote a letter to our pen pal. For science, we learned about why leaves change colors and also recorded the growth on our biodome. We have two plants growing inside.

Monday- 10/15/2007

We had both Circle Time and our lesson a bit late today, but both went well. For Circle Time, we did all of our usual things (singing, rhymes, etc.) and we read "Rainbow Fish" by Marcus Phister and we read Book of Mormon Stories, namely the story of Lehi receiving his vision about the destruction of Jerusalem. For the lesson we learned about the the letter Gg and the sound "g" as in garden. We also learned the ASL signs for G, Garden, Gorilla, Goat, Grass, and Guitar. Alyna already knew the sign for green, so she really liked practicing that one as well.

Friday- 10/12/2007

Today we were going to go to the Orr Family Farm (an agri-entertainment farm), but when we got there we found out it is only open from 6:00pm to 8:30pm, and it was 3:00 in the afternoon. So, we did some quick thinking and decided to make of the the day we missed a couple of weeks ago and go to the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History. We had a really great time seeing all of the dinosaurs and they have a terrific kids "discovery" place!

Thursday- 10/11/2007

Today, we had a great Circle Time. For Nature Study, Michael took the kids on a Nature Walk to the park to play and for our math lesson we learned about fractions with fruit!

Wednesday- 10/10/2007

Today was SO much fun! I woke up with a nasty cold, so I figured it was going to be a crummy day, but, at least in the schooling department, it has went really well. Circle Time was fun and we incorporated a scripture lesson today. Lyna paid attention really well for that. Then, we had our art project, which was just a ton of fun. I am so glad that I decided to do it! We built a fairy house! So, here are some pictures. I didn't get a lot of pictures of us actually making it, as it was a pretty involved project and needed constant supervision, but there are some of the finished project.
(Everyone knows you HAVE to wear your fairy dress if you are going to build a proper fairy house!)

Tuesday- 10/9/2007

We did get Circle Time done today, it went really well. We sang "Hinges" and did lots of fun rhymes. I am going to incorporate some type of scripture story/study in the next few days during Circle Time, I will update how it goes. For morning lesson, we did handwriting. We wrote a letter to a pen pal and also did some worksheets out of "Handwriting Without Tears". This afternoon, for science, we built a biodome and planted in it. We used this, but modified it a little bit because we didn't have enough of some of the materials. We will see how it grows and record its progress!

Monday- 10/8/2007

We missed Circle Time today. This afternoon we learned about the letter Ff and the sound "f" as in fish. We learned the ASL signs for F, Fairy, Fire, Fish, Forest, Farm, and Flag. We also reviewed all of the vocabulary and signs we have learned so far.

Friday- 10/5/2007

Today, we did Circle Time and reviewed all the previous letters, words, and signs and then headed off to the zoo. We got to see a lot of animals even though it was really hot outside. Lyna used a lot of her signs (cat, bones, elephant, etc.). I was proud of her for doing that. She also asked what other animal signs were. Unfortunately, I am not fluent in ASL, I am learning with her, so I have to look those up for her now. Here are a few pictures I got from today before my camera battery ran out.

Thursday- 10/4/2007

Today went really well. Lyna was really interested in the lessons today and really paid attention well. Circle Time went great. We had about 10 special guests in the for of Little People. They decided they needed to sit in with us. They were very good though and only needed to be told once (by Lyna) to be quiet! We did math with blocks which worked really well. Then, for Nature Study, we made a window design of the night sky. We also added pumpkins to our fall nature table this week!

Wednesday- 10/3/2007

We had a great day of school today. It was kind of a lazy day because our art project was not near as involved or time consuming as some previous ones. We did Circle Time and then, this afternoon, we made elephant ears and an elephant trunk. We also had to make, per Lyna's request, some elephant toes. Apparently, she did not feel her costume was complete without them. By the way, the pink is her crown and she is the queen elephant!

Tuesday- 10/2/2007

Circle Time went well today. We have decided to replace the reading of the fairy tales daily with reading a book instead. Lyna seems to respond better to this. She would bore easily with the fairy tale and then not want to continue Circle Time, so this change makes things a lot easier. For the morning lesson we did Handwriting and wrote a letter to a special someone. For afternoon we did this science experiment. It was really fun and interesting.

Monday- 10/1/2007

Today was a challenging day for school. Lyna was tired and grumpy so Circle Time was interesting, but once we started doing our "dancing and singing" time to "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" it got better (although she didn't want to stop doing that). This afternoon we learned about the letter Ee and the sound "e" as in elephant. We learned the ASL signs for E, elephant, egg, empty, emperor, elves, and engine. Lyna is down for a nap now, hopefully she will wake up a bit more cheery!