Week 5/30 - 6/04 ART

I need to do more art throughout school, but I've been quite neglectful at times and haven't covered some of the basic concepts are art as of yet. So this week I make amends! We talked about how when we think of a color certain things come to mind. For example, when I think of red I think of an apple and a fire truck. So for fun we changed the natural color of our lunch. Our tuna fish we put purple food coloring in & our milk was blue. The kids loved it, but I have to say it totally grossed me out! Weird how the mind works :)

We talked about warm and cool colors and how those colors make us feel accordingly! With warm colors, Michael drew a sun & spewing lava rivers. With cool, he had wind, oceans, and ice chunks.

We also made collages. This is my 4 year old, Lizzie's. If you knew my daughter you'd smile when you see what she picked out for herself. Sums up her personality in a few, colorful pictures :)

We also worked on drawing shapes and making a picture from different cut out shapes. Michael made a rocket blasting off into space with a couple rectangles & a few triangles. Genius ;)

Week 5/23 - 5/28 Misc.

Thumbing through my Kindergarten books, I saw that I missed some things I still wanted to teach Michael before moving on to 1st grade material. One of those things was graphs. So we did a pie chart, tally chart, and number graph. Michael loved doing that.

I was determined to teach Michael how to read a clock before the summer, but counting by 5's still eludes him. So we made clocks & started with the basic 10 o'clock, 2 o'clock, etc. Another good lesson. There are other things in the book we discussed, but unfortunately I'm doing this entry a few weeks after the fact & can't remember what we worked on besides the usual reading, writing, spelling tests, etc. Oh well. That will teach me!

Week 5/16 - 5/21: READING

Since reading & writing are the core to all Kindergarten learning, I decided to dedicate one week to getting Michael pumped up about it again. The initial, "I know all my letters and sounds!" euphoria has wore off & reading & writing is becoming drudgery. So we painted some tote bags for each of the kids to have their own library bag. Adds more fun to going to check out books!

It's difficult to find books that are at the level Michael's at, using 50 or so sight words primarily. A couple we found that were great are: Ten Apples Up on Top, and Green Eggs and Ham, both by Dr. Seuss. We also added 20 more sight words for Michael to add to his vocab which is still a work in progress.