Singing and Learning~

The girls have been learning the Presidents through song and I stopped by School Box to get them a placemat with the photos.

They even sung their song for the ladies in the store :)

and this morning they were SO excited to sing so I videoed~

 The boys are pretty excited too now that they know all those words the girls are singing actually have pictures~

Both boys are learning their numbers as well as counting.

I wrote the numerals 1-4 on their fingers so they could see and touch the numbers all that day.

Payne especially LOVED that I wrote on his hand!

Watch them count~

 and you KNOW Evie had to be in on the action~

LOVE they enjoy school and learning so much!!!

Happy Earth Day~

Today we read Miss Rumphius {FIAR book) and discussed how she/we can make the world a more beautiful place~

 Such a sweet story of how Miss Rumphius planted Lupines all over the place... making 'her' world more beautiful!

When doing this book in the past, I have asked kids to write about how they would make the world more beautiful... today I realized that is a pretty big order so we talked about the importance of thinking about it and deciding later.

We cut out our on worlds {Earths} and added crumbled tissue paper representing more water than land... they all wanted to add snow for Antarctica. We traced our hands in red for love, folded down our fingers for love sign, and wrote I Love the Earth on it.

We've been singing lots of songs from Dr. Jean's Sing to Learn CD and one of our favs is The Continents!

The Continents
(Tune: "He's Got the Whole World In His Hands")

We've got the whole globe in our hands.
We've got the whole globe in our hands.
We've got the whole globe in our hands.
We've got the whole globe in our hands.
We've got North and South America
In our hands.
We've got Europe, Asia, Africa
In our hands.
We've got Australia and Antarctica
In our hands.
We've got the whole globe in our hands. 

  

We are thankful for the Earth and plan to enjoy this unit all week!