Hope everybody had a great turkey day!
Friday, November 26, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
I is for Saint Ignatius, Iris Fairy, Insects, and Ice Cream!
Here are our themes for the week, all of which went into the Word Box, as usual. The cute little ice cream cones are little erasers I found at the craft store.
Our I poems for the week from An Alphabet of Catholic Saints and God's Alphabet
~Work Activities~
Among this week's activities were this instrument puzzle and I Spy bottles
~Circle Time~
Songs and Rhymes
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Ten Little Indians
I Scream, You Scream
If Wishes were Horses
Going to St. Ives
If
various ice cream rhymes using felt board
And for Thanksgiving:
I Have a Turkey
Mr. Turkey
Little Pilgrim Dressed in Grey
~Foods for I Week~
Lots of ethnic foods this week, since not all that much begins with I: Italian, Irish, and Indian foods abounded in our kitchen!
Irish Guinness Beef Stew with Irish Brown Bread
Indian Curry
The girls didn't really care for it, although it was not spicy at all
Irish oatmeal with maple cream (from my King Arthur whole grains baking cookbook - don't know how authentic that maple cream is, but it sure was delicious!)
my Irish oatmeal alongside my everyday ritual of Irish breakfast tea
Irish soda bread
We also enjoyed the Italian meals of lasagna and spaghetti, insects on a log for snack, and of course, ice cream!
~Tea Time~
~Letter Formation~
forming letter Ii using playdough
writing I's in cornmeal
Cut and Paste I Collage... I was so surprised at how many things we found! I printed off the pictures of the Ingallses, insects, and St. Ignatius, but Caroline found the ice cream, ironing, and ice skating images in magazines.
Punch Out the Letter - Capital and Lowercase Ii
~Flower Fairy for Letter I: Iris~
Caroline coloring her flower fairy page from the Flower Fairies coloring book
Caroline's completed Iris Fairy
~Saint for Letter I: St. Ignatius~
painted St. Ignatius
Illustrating St. Ignatius
Caroline's completed work
Completed St. Helen poem copywork from An Alphabet of Catholic Saints
This was Caroline's fist time to actually copy the words rather than trace them, and I thought she did a great job! We spread it out over two separate sessions. the idea here is for her to do her very best, neatest writing... we erase over and over until it is right, and so it is slow going sometimes. However, the copywork later in the week from God's Alphabet didn't go as well, so we are back to tracing for the next few weeks, I think...
~In the Book Baskets~
Science Theme: Insects
Liturgical Year and Religious I Books:
Social Studies Theme: Laura Ingalls
~Word Box Work~
sorting words by long and short I
~Picture Study: I is for Insect~
~ABC Virtue of the Week: I'm Sorry~
~Activities for I Week~
Ice Cream Cone Math
Ice Cream Scoop Patterns
Some were a bit wobbly, but she got every pattern correct.
Making Ice Cream
Cecilia is good at slicing bananas!
Caroline sliced the strawberries.
The slices were laid out on a baking sheet to go into the freezer for a few hours.
And it is not real ice cream... it is called "Better Than Ice Cream," and it is amazing how much it resembles the real thing, and with no sugar at all! The frozen bananas are the trick to it.
They love it!!
And there's some left over for the freezer!
~I is for the Ingalls Family~
Here's Caroline with her pancake man (and omelette and fruit)
Cecilia took a few minutes of finagling with hers until she discovered the best way to pick it up and hold it!
Caroline holding the homemade butter
Making an Igloo
This is a fun recipe for kids, because they get to mix it up with their hands! No eggs in it to worry about, and no rising time either: mix it up, at it out, and bake it! Hmm, we should make Irish brown bread and soda bread both more often because of how simple they are!
Mmm, warm out of the oven!
I is for Ice Cream!
Labels:
alphabet path,
homeschooling,
kindergarten
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