We continue to do penny whistle lessons every day. Grant is enjoying it more as he gets better at playing. Paco also introduced them to a new Spanish song. This one was also about numbers. I added some fun St. Patrick's Day songs and verses to circle time, and the kids really enjoy hearing about shamrock's and Leprachauns. Grant is learning to skip count, and every day we are drawing fun "charts" to help him remember.
I have a chalkboard drawing on the board that Grant has to find which numbers make up which shapes.
On Tuesday, we talked about 3, the triangle, and I read Grant the Grimm's tale, The Three Sons of Fortune.
On Wednesday, we talked about 4 and how it can make a square or a rectangle. After that Grant looked around the school room to see how many things he could find with four sides. There was certainly no shortage.
The following is our "silly potato" 4 counting chart. It's hard to see, but there are numbers in the eyes, noses and mouths:
On Thursday, Grant and Dad put together Johanna's Tinkerbelle scooter, and she tried it out before we went on our morning walk.
Once in school, we talked about the number five and pentagons. Grant practiced writing 5's, V's, FIVE, petagons, and stars with five points. I read him the story of Star Money, and we drew a picture from it in our lesson books.
This is supposed to be a peacock with diamond shaped feathers for our 5 counting chart:
We had Friday morning off, and enjoyed playing outside in the beautiful weather.
