Apr
Yarn Egg
We’re continuing our Easter theme this week with this yarn egg.
First Hailey tried to blow up a balloon.
Once it was blown up (not by Hailey) we tied a string on it.
We mixed together equal parts of glue and water…
cut up some Easter colored yarn…
then wrapped the yarn around the balloon. (We put a chair up on the table and then hung the balloon from it so we could work on it.) The Yarn was falling off the balloon, so I remixed the glue/water and used less water.
We probably should have added more yarn to the balloon- but it kept sliding off and I was getting frustrated. If you’ve ever made this before- do you have any idea why the yarn was falling off?
Once it was completely dry we carefully popped the balloon and pulled the balloon out.
Our finished yarn egg hanging in our dining room.
Apr
Letter of the Week- Letter E
Our Letter last week was E. Here are some of things we did:
Hailey looked through the various letter E crafts at No Times for Flashcards and decided she wanted to do the Easter Egg E.
Then we made this super cute E is for Elephant using Hailey’s handprint that I saw at Homeschool Creations.
Here is what we did from RRSP:
Hailey showing off her verse that she colored. She can do such a nice job coloring when she takes her time.
Cutting out her vocabulary words.
Practicing writing E.
Hailey loves using her verse to measure. This weeks verse was short so it was much shorter than her- she always has to check and see if she is taller than her verse. She thought it was great that she couldn’t even get it around her head.
Doing her cut and paste craft. We practiced positional words with this activity.
Other stuff we did:
This was an Easter Egg letter match up that I found at 2 Teaching Mommies. While Hailey did this match up she told me the letter sounds too. There are only a few letters left that she doesn’t know the sounds for, meaning we won’t be doing a letter of the week for much longer.
We made a shape book that is from one of my Mailbox magazines. Hailey colored the pages.
I put it together and then Hailey had to flip the top and bottom to match the shapes. This held her interest for about 10 seconds. Which is not nearly as long as it took me to put it together.
We did a Springtime ABC file folder using printables from 1+1+1=1.
The inside of the folder- Hailey had to match the upper and lowercase letters and stick them onto the velcro inside.
The back of the folder, where she can keep all of the letters.
Here is a fill in the number printable from Busy Bee Kids Prinables.
Lastly, I decided to start a journal with Hailey last Monday. I asked her what her favorite thing was that she had done over the weekend. She gave me her answer, I wrote it down and she copied it into her journal. Then she drew a picture to go with it.
She was so proud of her journal. She asked almost everyday to write in it again. She loved it!
Apr
Science Sunday- Eggs
This week we did a bunch of Easter crafts and read Easter books and did lots of Easter related stuff. So for our science experiments this week we learned about eggs.
We talked about Humpty Dumpty and Hailey decorated a hard boiled egg to look like Humpty Dumpty.
What would happen to Humpty Dumpty if he fell off a wall?
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall…
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall…
Poor Humpty Dumpty.
We also compared what the inside of a hard boiled egg looked like compared to a raw egg.
The inside of poor Humpty Dumpty.
A raw egg in a frying pan. We heated it up to see what would happen.
Yummy scrambled eggs.
We also watched an Eagle egg hatch on Youtube. If you haven’t seen these videos- they are really amazing to watch (Thanks Aunt Ruth for sending us the link for that!).
In other science related stuff- we did a potato experiment last week. But nothing ever happened.
We balanced a potato in a jar and put water in the jar. We made sure at least 1/4 of the potato was covered by the water. It’s been a week and half and nothing ever happened. Does anyone know what we did wrong?
Apr
More Easter Egg Fun
We decorated another egg today for our Easter theme.
Here’s what we used:
Shaving cream, food coloring, toothpicks and a baking pan.
I squirted some shaving cream onto the baking pan.
Then I added some food coloring.
Hailey used a toothpick and swirled the colors together.
Then she put an egg made from cardstock onto the shaving cream.
When she pulled it off it looked like this.
Then we added some more colors and she did some more swirling.
Here’s how the next egg looked.
After we were done with the eggs she had a great time playing in the shaving cream.
Eventually it turned to a lovely gray color. And when we washed it off, her hands were purple. They are still purple.
Here’s our finished eggs:
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