Writing
Faith addressed and mailed her letter to penpal, Caleb.

Reading
Lizzy's Ups and Downs by Harper
Nora's Room by Harper
The Three Grumpies by Wight

Life Skills
When reading The Three Grumpies, we had a discussion about how the character conquered being grumpy. Not with more grumpies, but with choosing to smile and change the way she reacts to them!

Physical Education
Played at the gym.

Reading
Read poems from A Light In The Attic by Silverstein
Faith read A Whisper Is Quiet by Lunn and Happy Days With Our Friends by Montgomery & Bauer

Life Skills
Baked cookies and decorated them

Writing, Art
Worksheet: The color purple
Worksheet: Find and color 4 leaves puzzle
Worksheet: Write the letter that begins each picture word

Reading, Science, Geography
Read Volcanoes: Mountains That Blow Their Tops by Nirgiotis

Science
Invited some friends over to help us build a volcano experiment. We made a sand/water mountain with a bottle inside of it. The kids measured and mixed flour and baking soda in the bottle and then added red wine vinegar to it. It foamed up an flowed down the mountain like a volcano!

Reading
Faith read Selfish Sophie by Kelleher

Life Skills, Math, Science
Baked bread together. Faith helped measure and add ingredients.

Reading, Art, Science
Went to the "Big" Library and read books and checked out books and looked at art and crafts on the walls.
Read Eyewitness Books: Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Writing
Worksheet: The Letter V & The Letter U
Worksheet: Fill in the Blank with a word
Practiced writing numbers 1-10
Practiced writing uppercase alphabet

Science, Physical Education
Went butterfly hunting. Brought the camera and walked around the neighborhood snapping pictures of flowers (what butterflies eat) and mushrooms (where butterflies sit) and of course, butterflies! Faith loves taking pictures.

Reading
Faith read Go Dog, Go!
We read Eyewitness Books: Archeology by McIntosh, A Butterfly's Life by Burke, Insects Up Close by Martin

Science, Art
Learned about butterfly life cycle from the internet and colored a picture of each stage. Talked about how they see (with many lenses) and how their life cycle is different from a dragonfly.

Writing
Worksheet: The Letter Y
Began writing a letter to penpal, Caleb.

Art
Drew a picture for Caleb.

Math
Played Chutes and Ladders.

Reading
Faith read Down on the Farm by Lascaro

Reading
Read poetry, Where the Sidewalk Ends by Silverstien
Faith read Put Me In the Zoo by Lopshire

Math
Adding numbers 1-10 using a computer game http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/drills/add10.htm
Practiced adding using the "dot" system with Seth

Writing, Art
Wrote her report on Mexico. Colored a picture of what she saw in Mexico. Created a cover and put together all of the elements of her Mexico report that she had worked on before vacation.

Art
Free coloring time using multimedia.