Origami has become a new favorite activity! It's pretty amazing how a piece of paper can become an entertaining toy. The cranes were their favorites. We also made boxes, fish, frogs, airplanes, boats, and Samurai hats.
Geography: We rowed our origami boat to Japan, found and colored it on a world map, colored the flag, and read many books about Japanese culture.
Literature: Our favorite Japan stories are Turtle Bay, The Two Foolish Cats, and This Place Is Crowded! We also read Journey To Japan (nice pop-up book), The Paper Crane, The Bicycle Man, Taro and the Tofu, A Carp For Kimiko, How My Parents Learned To Eat, The Boy Of The Three Year Nap, The Butterfly's Dream, and Japanese Children's Favorite Stories.
Art: We made some Japanese-styled watercolor paintings of trees with cherry blossoms based on the art in The Two Foolish Cats.
Phonics: We did lessons 141-145. This week's focus was on the 'long u' sound, and words with 'u' and 'silent e'. The story was The Mule Ride, funny as always. Have I mentioned that we love the McRuffy readers? 'Long u' was a little harder than the previous long vowels because sometimes is sounds like 'u' as in 'mule', and sometimes is sounds like 'oo' as in 'tube'. By the end of the week, he became familiar with the two different 'long u' sounds. He's reading so well thanks to these readers!
Math: We did lessons 106-108. Beginning addition and subtraction were the focus, and we took it slow since it was a harder week for reading. Joining and breaking a certain number of counters and then making math sentences with number and sign cards to match was a fun way to learn and see how it all works. We also reviewed 'greater than/less than' and counting by 1's, 5's, and 10's.
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