W: Part 3

Whales! We read lots of awesome books about whales and talked about their lengths in how many 6 ft daddies we would have to line up. They all really enjoyed this topic, and it made me wish we could go to Sea World. They would love it! We read two books on Tuesday and then two more on Thursday. The books were redundant, but this is good for them to actually remember the facts. Thursday, Genevieve totally shocked us all by remembering the words and definitions of "breaching" and "echolocation." She even pronounced them correctly. Amazing!

Speaking of Genevieve, she also finished the book Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons last week before she even started Kindergarten, earning herself a date alone with Mommy. We are doing great there! She is not far behind her big sis. I have found that she tries harder than Hannah because she wants to keep up with her big sister, in everything from bike riding to reading.

Back to whales, we also did our fist Origami project and made whales out of the totally inappropriate construction paper. Then I had them glue them to another piece of construction paper and make an ocean scene. This was fun and turned out nice.


The other W thing we did was back to weather. Hannah made this...

You can turn the plate underneath and see the weather change in the window. She did this all by herself during her rest time. It was a last minute project that was in a book about weather that she wanted to do, so we set her up, and she went to town. I just had to put the brad in the middle after rest time was over. That's my kind of project! Isn't it everybody's?

So, we are onto X week now. Almost finished with our alphabet and our school year! I am so ready for the summer. Swimming, playing, traveling, nesting...By the way, we find out what gender Speck is tomorrow if all goes well! So check back soon!