Plenty of Fun

After a couple of weeks break, we are back in the swing of things and having plenty of fun with the letter P!

The letter P Potato stamp and a little peeker... Malachi went "P" hunting (complete with his toy rifle) and found many items around the house that began with the P sound.

No day is complete without pretend play... Asher joined the superheros this time as " Army Tank Man".

Malachi and Karis were completely into Puzzles this week.

We built a lot of our studies this week around penguins. Constructing the letter P out of baby penguin cut-outs...

Experiencing firsthand how feathers help keep penguins warm..

Comparing our height to that of an adult Emperor Penguin's...

Acting out math story problems... Four fish were swimming in the ocean. Three more fish joined them. Then a very hungry penguin came and ate up two fish... How many fish are left?

In Science we explored water (since penguins live in and around it). First we saw how water turns to ice when it gets really cold.

Then we made an icy home for a lonely penguin.

Next, we saw what happens to water when it gets really hot.

We learned that steam is water that is really hot.

Finally, we recorded our findings.

In Music, we used water to orchestrate a concert that penguins would love. Malachi chose to blow into bottles. (something he learned from Curious George) Karis chose to pour...

Asher tried to spoon water out of jars and made a watery mess.

In Geography we talked about Antarctica.

Mom tried to explain why Antarctica is so cold. Karis is holding up the "sun" as the earth rotates (we didn't have enough arms to make it revolves) ... but as you can tell by her confused look, this part of the lesson was a flop.

In Art we looked at printouts of some Picasso paintings, as did our little rubber frogs.

Then we drew our own portraits.

Permanent markers were the medium for our drawings. Karis was so pleased since Mommy never lets her use them and she always wants to.

As Picasso had a blue period, we chose a color for our own period. Then we made different shades of the one color and painted our portraits. (idea thanks to artprojectsforkids.org)

Then we painted a second protrait using many different colors as Picasso often did.

When the paint dried, mom traced over the original black lines again... for masterpices that are gallery worthy (well, at least according to mommy).We ended the week with plenty of popcorn and some poetry.Only by the grace of God, another week completed!