Week 7

Nathan learned about the letter 'O' this week.  We made an octopus for his letter book:

He had an ocean sensory bin, a hit with all 4 kids!

And he made an ocean sensory bottle:

In our Konos work, we talked about the orderliness of seasons/months.  Each day we took a new season until Friday, which was a hop-to-the-season review game.  

Monday was winter so we made some snowflakes and some really cute gingerbread men:

For snack, we enjoyed hot cocoa:

Tuesday was spring so they made kites:

And painted watercolor scenes from spring:

Wednesday was summer.  We made 4th of July flags and enjoyed icy cold lemonade:

Thursday was fall so we shared what were thankful for and them made pumpkin faces.  You can see our real pumpkins in the background--that's actually for Halloween.  We also made a pumpkin cake for snack this day.

In other big news this week, we finished our 1st read aloud.  They had a chance to write or draw a picture about the book.  We had a lot of pictures of bank robberies and poor Aunt Ruth, who was killed early on in the book.  It was a good Western, for sure.  Ha!  We started our new read aloud this week, which is Witches by Roald Dahl.

Non-school-related pictures....  Nathan is a huge helper in the kitchen and really into helping bake, cook, mix, whatever!  He helped me make cinnamon rolls for supper last week:

We went to my parents' house for lunch one day this week and the kids enjoyed raking and jumping in the leaves.  We don't have that many leaves in our own yard so it's a treat for them!

And, Nathan was passed out in the cat bed one evening this week.  It's tough playing hard all day.