our week

March 19th - 23rd

We again didn't spend as much time in our school room this week, but we still did a fair amount. Mostly shelf work, though. We didn't do very much from our workboxes. That's okay, though! I never require her to do anything in particular.

Our shelves

Learning palette

She loves working with this but we never did get to

it this week. This was a new sheet she hadn't tried, yet.

I may put it back out next week. 

Kumon activities

A favorite as always. We did get to these. She really

loved the snowman one. She had to cut the strips of

paper into small pieces, then used her fingertip to

make a bunch of small dots of glue. Then we dumped

the "snowflakes" on the page and shook it around. 

Fraction pies

These have been sitting half done in my closet for

months and I finally finished them! I just let her

explore them this week. I told her how fractions

worked, but we didn't do any specific activities

to work on the concept.

Soaking up water

She had fun with this one. We filled the pitcher with

water and then she got to dump it on the tray. She

used the sponge to soak up the water from the tray

and squeezed all the water out into the bowl.

Magnet play

She uses the yellow magnet to sort out metal vs

non-metal items.  She went back to this one several

times.

Sand tray

This was just for having fun and tracing things in

the sand. She did some letters, but mostly just

made random lines and hand prints.

Color mixing

We had a lot of fun with this one! I filled the bottles

with red, yellow, and blue water and she used the

droppers to mix colors in the tray. We also used

card stock and paper towels to make pictures and

color wheels.

Art table

I was planning on this being two separate art activities

with the glitter glue being used on construction paper.

But she decided to use the glitter glue on one of the

pages from the watercolor book. It turned out cute!

Glitter glue painting

We dipped strips of paper towel into the tray to

better see the colors. Most of them looked too dark

in the tray to really tell the color. It was also fun

to watch the colors separate back out a little on

the paper towel strip after a couple minutes.

Color wheel. She used a toothpick to swirl the colors

together before laying the paper towel over the top.

Some were dripped straight on to the paper towel

and some of them were done first on card stock.

Some just for fun pictures!

On our way to the park on a beautiful day!

Love her choice of outfit. That's white

shortalls over a green shirt with a

green tutu. Too bad she didn't pick this

one out on the 17th!