Texas, Trains, Trees...

It just wouldn't be T week without a lesson on Texas. Here are their flags...

We read books about Texas and some Tall Tales about Texas as well, like Pecos Bill and also the legend of the bluebonnets.

As for trains, this was super enjoyable for Isaac. I think we read our five library books on trains a million times in the last couple of weeks. The girls used a book about how to draw trains from the library, and here are Hannah's drawings. Genna had put hers in her folder already.

We read some great books about trees too. Gail Gibbons wrote Tell Me, Tree which was very good. We have read her books a lot this year in our alphabet path. She's a good nonfiction writer for kids. Her books are written well for this age and keep their attention (even Isaac's). We learned about the two main kinds of trees, the parts of a tree and the trunk layers, and about basic photosynthesis. Lots of good science!

Squeezing in the food pyramid!

It's been T week for two weeks and we have started U week this week. During T week I had to stretch it and squeeze in the food pyramid (Could we call it the food tree? I forgot to do it during F, N, and P week!) even though it doesn't relate to our letter of the week because it is something Hannah needed for Health this year. So we read two books about nutrition and the food pyramid. Then I gave them my treasured Martha Stewart magazines and some scissors and set them free to cut out foods from all the food groups. I drew the pyramid on a poster and wrote in the groups. Hannah and Genna colored the correct colors in and then helped each other glue the food in the right columns.