The Connett Connection

My kids love corn.  They have never really seen corn that had just been picked, so I found two ears for us to play with and learn about! I showed them the ears of corn and we talked about what they were and the part of the corn we could see was called the husk. I then gave each child their own ear of corn to take the husk off.  This was a great fine motor activity. My two year old ripped his apart before the 5 year old.  I do not know if you can tell from the picture, but the 2 year old tried to bit into his corn right after removing the husk! They then washed their ears of corn in a bucket.  I then took the corn inside to let it cook and we then began some fun craft activities to go along with the corn theme! My son's ear of corn had a surprise inside!  There were to small ears of corn hidden within the husks.  My daughter wanted to know if she could eat the "baby corn."  I told her, "no," but we would do something fun with ...

So, this week was the first week since we started school where we did our lessons everyday! We continued our fall theme with these tissue paper leaves.  The leaf templates we used can be found in this Fall Themed Packet . We finally mastered beginning sounds and have moved on to ending sounds.  I found this fun set of ending sound games for free from This Reading Mama ! When she sees me pull one of these games out, she says, "Mom!  I want to do that first!" First off please ignore my feet... I forgot to crop this picture and I just don't have time to do that right at the moment!  We have been learning about being friends.  I found this cute sorting activity for free, but I could not relocate it to give you the link and the creator did not place her information anywhere on the product! On Wednesday, we had a field trip to Chick-fil-A with our MOPS group where we saw how they made lemonade.  My two children were fortunate enough to help...