The Connett Connection

We had a full week this week, despite this short post!  I just did not think about getting pictures!  I did manage to get some pictures from our activities from studying the forest, so I will share them here! My daughter learned the difference between deciduous trees and coniferous trees.  Last week, we focused on deciduous trees, and this week we focused on coniferous trees.  My daughter loves doing art, so she loved this pine cone painting activity!  We have done a variety of pine cone crafts this year, and to see some more, you can check out my Pine Cone Activities Post ! We also learned some about bears, since they live in the forest!  We did this guided writing activity and then my daughter drew this awesome picture to go with her story! We have also been doing several activities about owls.  She thought her torn paper owl was "super cute!"  MORE WAYS TO CONNECT Teachers Pay Teachers Store Boom Store Facebook Page Hands on...

Another week has ended!  A new one is about to begin!  We had a lot of fun this week, especially with our big project and a new writing plan! We are finishing up a study on the grasslands !  Just a few more days left and then it is one to studying the forest! We had fun using these clip cards to figure out what type of grassland each of these animals lived in. Part of testing her knowledge of the grasslands was doing this writing paper .  I ask her to draw a grassland and then two animals that live in the grassland. Our big project this week was making this grasslands box .  We did a small portion of the project each day this week and on Friday we added our animals and the kids got to play with it.  My 2 year old was so excited to add animals to the box.  He came running over with his favorite animal, his shark.  He got a lesson on why sharks do not belong in the grasslands! Someone posted this idea for writing rubrics on Fac...

Another week done and another one to begin!  We had, overall, a good week.  We actually had school time all five days this week and finished all the word we had planned to do!  We started our new phonics book, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.  So far, my daughter knows and is able to do the lessons, so that is a nice change.  I am seeing she knows a little more than she was letting on! We finished up our Halloween activities early this week.  We carved our pumpkin on Monday.  My son chose the design and my daughter wanted to help make the pumpkin.  She loved sorting the seeds, but did not like touching the "slimy stuff." Our very last Halloween craft this year were these mummies!  One was made with masking tape as the wrapping and the other was made by cutting paper strips and gluing them to the mummy! We had some great weather this week, so we spent a lot of time outside! We finished a series of lessons on e...