Homeschool: Take Two...a learning experience (for me)

We started off today's lesson with music. I found recorders at the dollar store and let the little ones  try to make different sounds.

Then we read the first part of chapter two out of Leggtowne Chronicles by Beth Cantrell.  Today's story was about rabbit who has a big secret...he can spin a web.

Narration: The kids drew pictures of the different things that took place in the story. (I helped a little bit).

Science: I made them rabbit ears out of pipe-cleaners and we talked about the difference between rabbits's ears and ours, we watched a video on how ears works, and decided that rabbits can hear very well because they have such big ears.

Numbers: (Here is where my learning for the day came in). I wrote out three numbers and had the children trace them with their fingers.  I gave the kids silly-string and had them shoot thier 'webs' at the number...so if the number was 5, they shot the silly-string 5 times.  Here's what I learned...silly string is messy and NOT good for indoors...Oops...but, the kids loved it!

Fine motor skills/free-play: The children's attention span was waning so I pulled out the play-dough and let them create whatever they desired.

We had a good time of learning...I'm not giving-up yet!!