Really Radical Letter R

This week we practiced letter R. Ronan was more than excited to do this letter because it is "his" letter! We began on Monday with R/r raindrop letter matching. We watched a short clip about how rain and rainbows are made...

Then we attempted to make our own rain cloud using shaving cream and food coloring. Ronan chose green for the rain.

Then we tried making a rainbow. It worked but the angle was too hard for Ronan to get...

Then we did some water reflections using the sun from our back windows. It made reflections on the wall.

We finished by reading Noah and his Ark from our children's bible. We discussed why God sent a rainbow and how he keeps his promises.

That evening we did a rainbow experiment with Kieryn using skittles and water... It was really Rad!

On Tuesday I had Micah for preschool. We began the lesson by playing in rice...

Then we used rocket shooters for a name game...

The boys used the rockets to blast the letters that spelled their name...

Once they hit the letter they had to attach it to their rocket in the correct order (which spelled their name)...

When they finished we gave the rockets tails and turned on the song "rocket ship run" to practice counting backwards from 5.

Later we did some tracing...

That evening was our "kid fit" class and I decided to incorporated letter R. We did rock hopping...

Ball rolling races...

Rolling to knock over the jug...

And ropes! They were worn out!

On Wednesday Ronan went to Janell's. They did a robot sticker picture and made a neat railroad crossing sign to practice both cutting out a circle and tracing R. 

On Thursday we did red rectangle math and a number-to-number R... Which we turned into a rabbit after connecting all the numbers 1-20. 

On Friday we reviewed a bible verse that talkes about "running in such a way as to win the prize." This was a discussion lesson before heading into gymnastics... When inside we did a running race!

I guess this was a life lesson to wrap up the week... The kids got to help/mostly watch us process Raw meat. Now they know where hamburger comes from...We headed to Seneca on Saturday for a big day of butchering. Fun fun!!

Until next week!