Nature: Landforms Day 2

Last Thurs we studied more landforms.  Actually, now that I think about it, it has nothing to do with landforms.  We studied plants and trees.  It was fun!

I got my calendar from my school stuff and we started doing that again. If nothing else, it helps give us another excuse to look at numbers and count.  So we started with that, then moved to our letters and numbers review.  Of course, we played memory.  This is getting increasingly hard with the addition of so many letters.  She is still really good with A-C, but she gets confused with the rest.  It's a very abstract concept, so I'm not too worried.  She is getting better all the time.  And she's only 3.  We probably played 10 times.  Ok, I'm exaggerating, but it is her favorite game still.

Then we matched the spoons again.  She is really good at matching them, even if she can't say them all by name.

For our numbers practice, I got the eggs that had a number on the top and dots on the bottom and she had to find the match, then count that many pastas to put in.  She does really well with 1-5.  She can quickly identify those, match them to the number of dots and quickly count that many pastas.  I feel like she is gaining some number sense of those, which is my goal!  6-10 are still in progress.

For our theme, we did plants.  We read a book called How A Seed Becomes A Plant or something like that.  I had bought some seeds so we pulled them out and looked at them.  Throughout the book we talked about the different parts of a plant.  Then we planted our seeds!  I had bought a little $1 greenhouse kit from Walmart that came with soil and seeds, so she helped plant them.

Then we made our own tree picture.  She helped me draw the trunk and roots (she mostly wanted me to do it, so she put her hand on mine while we drew) and then we put the leaves on using a hot glue gun and crayons.  Disclaimer:  cheap crayons for whatever reason wouldn't go in.  And although we could get the whole crayon through, it mostly squirted out of the gun instead of dotting like the original idea.  But she loved squeezing the trigger.  And yes, I ran a stick of glue through afterward and it continues to have a slight greenish hue.