Incredible Week!

It was an incredible week with lots of things going on! We began our letter "i" week with some icecream activities. There was letter tracing, i/I matching, and puffy paint painting.

Monday happened to be Steven's 34th birthday so it was a perfect opportunity to have cake and icecream!

Kieryn and I got all ready for the birthday dinner to surprise Daddy!

Happy Birthday Daddy! We love you!

 

On Monday and Tuesday we had lots of activity around our house. Ronan was in heaven with the many dump trucks, rollers, and pickup trucks around. We spent a lot of time outside on those two days watching them pave the streets in our neighborhood. We pretty much followed them around. The foremen loved the attention! The kids were calling the paving machine "Bessy" from the Disney movie Cars - when Lightning has to pull Bessy to fix the road in Radiator Springs.

On Tuesday we talked about insects. We traced letters, made shape insects, and did a color match by finding insects in the rice.

The rice was quite a hit. Ronan played in it while Kieryn was at school. It was great for pretending to do construction with his dump truck and bulldozer!

And they begged to play more with it that afternoon... how can yous say no?!?

On Wednesday we practiced tearing paper and gluing to make an igloo.

The kids made their own ice cubes... we filled these with water before Kieryn went to school and then after lunch took them out and discussed how they became ice. They played and we experimented to see which temperature of water melted the ice faster.

That evening we tried making our own igloos. We got them out again on Saturday night and finished playing/making our igloos.

On Thursday we made shape iguanas. It was fun for the kids to match the shapes and then match the correct triangle on it's back. The triangles spelled out their name so they had to glue them in the correct order. Ronan did his name part with no help! I was shocked!

We visited the fire house at Ronan's story time that day. It was neat to see the trucks but the coolest part was seeing a firefighter in all his gear. The kids were supposed to go and investigate him and give a high-five... but Ronan was very afraid of him! Wish Kieryn could have seen that one.

On Friday morning we did shape matching with a little "i". Then we watched a video about an indian rain dance. We made hats and did our own rain dance! :)

We finished up the lesson with some shape tracing. Kieryn is getting VERY good at tracing and writing her letters!

On Saturday we spent the morning at Lake Tobias Wildlife Park for a birthday party. We had so much fun! The kids got to see the animals up close and got to feed/pet some pretty impressive animals.

One even came on the bus to say hi.

It was freezing... 48 degrees and breezy, but we had a blast!

Of course, my kids couldn't wait for the dino cake! As a party favor, each kid got a dinosaur tail and mask. Kieryn and Ronan loved their tails. Kieryn wore hers the rest of the day/night...and asked to wear it to sleep too!

What a fun adventure! So glad we made it to check out the wildlife park! Until next time...