Read Aloud Time!

I love Read Aloud Time. Probably more than the kids 😊. I think it's a wonderful way to share books with them that are above their reading level. It stimulates their imagination (no tv to do the thinking for them) and it gets them interested in what books are out there they may want to explore. Our first read aloud was Chocolate Fever By Roger Kimmel Smith. It is so funny and the kids love it. We actually already finished. They sit and draw a picture about what I am reading in their Journal. Eventually they will add sentences.

Bugging Around!

Science is always a favorite of the kids. Especially the bug section! We haven't started our butterfly garden, but we got outside to see what we could find crawling or flying around.

They love recording their pictures in the nature journal we make.

First Day!

This year I actually got First Day pics of the kids! Let's see if I remember to do last day pics :). Here are a couple of the kids to show what I did.

I also attempted to bring in a first day (unhealthy) snack to go with our Mickey theme. Well...they didn't turn out exactly like I had hoped, but even after hearing "please please let my Mickey stay together", they all gobbled them up.

Mr. Special Sound Muncher

This week we met a new friend...Mr. Special Sound Muncher.

He is in our classroom to help us learn our Special Sounds.

We use the Abeka curriculum and have several charts full of "special sounds". A.K.A...words that refuse to follow the rules of "One vowel words say their short sound and when there are two vowels, the first one does the talking and the second one does the walking (SILENTLY)." So glad I was born speaking English, I hear it is pretty tough learning as a second language. :) Well today my kids got to feed Mr. Special Sound Muncher! "He" sent home a note last night with the special sound he was hungry for..ck in duck. They are able to bring in pictures they draw or find or words they write or find that use that special sound. This morning they excitedly fished in their backpacks for their meal and fed it to him.

Mr. Special Sound Muncher was definitely full!