We started our morning with our normal routine. We did calendar time and our daily notebooks. Even Lil' Man got in on our notebook time! He and the table were covered with blue WASHABLE ;) marker!
Banana Bear worked with her Cuisenaire Rods. She loves working with these! The last day of every unit we do the corresponding letter from this book. It's a great way get for her to get some hands on math.
After lunch, while Lil' Man napped, the girls got to listen to some music. We listened to Flight of the Bumblebee while Banana Bear and Princess danced around pretending to be bees collecting nectar! They had so much fun! You might notice, Banana Bear "filling her pockets" while doing her dance. She remembered that bees fill their "pockets" with pollen to take back to the hive.
After dancing, we had our reading time. One of the books we read was The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco. It was a great story, in which a grandfather and granddaughter chase after bees to find a honey tree because the granddaughter is tired of studying her books. Several people from the town join them. After they collect the honey from the tree, everyone goes back to the house and enjoys baking soda biscuits, tea and of course, the honey! There was great moral, too. The grandfather uses the difficulty of chasing bees to get the reward of honey as an analogy to how we chase through books to gain the reward of knowledge. In the spirit of the book, we made baking soda biscuits to enjoy with tea and honey.
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| Mixing our biscuits |
While we waited for our biscuits to bake, Banana Bear and I did some "ant" math. I made up word problems to practice addition and subtraction, and Banana Bear used the raisins as ants to act out the problems.
When the biscuits finished baking, we all sat down and enjoyed tea, honey and our biscuits! I could definitely get use to sitting down for tea with my kids every day!
And that was our extremely awesome and fun day!
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