P-P-Penguin!!!!

Well, school is back in session. Or at least Summer school is! We
stated back the second week of July and will continue until the weather
cools off sometime in Sept.

We just finish the P-Penguin unit of My Father's World A-Z Kindergarten
curriculum we've been using. It was a fun unit. The kids really love
learning about penguins. Miriam absolutely loved the movie "March of
the Penguins". We were able to stream it off Netflix and it was her
rest time movie of choice for most of the week. We read lots of fun
books to learn more about penguins as well.

Snack time was extra fun on day 1... we had p-p-pretzels and fresh from the tree p-p-peaches!

We did some p-p-painting later in the week... it was suppose to be of a
penguin like Momma's example, but the kids did their own thing!!

I also tried something different on day 3 for the number page. The
directions have the child randomly draw a number from the number cup,
write it, and then draw that many of some item in the box. Well, since
we now have numbers in the teens, Miriam doesn't like to draw that many
ice cream cones or cakes (or whatever the thing of the week is). So I
decided to just let her pick out that many stickers and place them in
the box. It worked very well and she loved it!

The other new thing I am now trying is to keep Katie and Evan more
occupied. I downloaded coloring pages and other worksheets from this
site and them work on these while I helped Miriam. It has worked out
very well, and I will keep doing it!

I am also very proud of Evan this week. He finally has shown an
interest in learning to write and worked very hard on his name. He has
a ways to go yet, but for a kid that 2 weeks ago could not even make an
E... well, he has really started to get it!