April Preschool - April 2012

In April we did a lot of Easter activities and did a big Rainbow study. I'll do a separate post on all our rainbow work, but here are some pics from our general work/play during April:

So happy Flossie has someone to play babies with now!

 

Sight Word Graphing

 Working on an IEW PALS writing lesson.                 Subtraction :)
Labeling things around the house :)

Domino Math!                                                             I remember doing this when I was little :)

 Practicing shapes and letters in cous-cous.
Gotta do something with it!

 Freddie and Flossie are becoming experts at puzzles! Guess I need to get some harder ones!

 Love these times :)                                                      The kids could never do these puzzles 6 months
                                                                                      ago. They were reluctant to even try today but
                                                                                      were so proud at their success!

Flossie teaching Sarah :)

Scout's IEW writing assignment.                                Jem doing spelling words with white crayon and
                                                                                    watercolors.

Joey the parakeet's funeral. Dad dug us a hole. Kind words were said by all.  Jem wanted to do the covering up with dirt part. R.I.P. Joey.  :(

Pattern Blocks

Jem doing extra History at Our House map work.

Field Trip - Phoenix Zoo - 2/28/12

In February we took a trip with Grammy and Papa to the Zoo! The weather was great and we all had a fun time. We must have since we were there for over 5 hours! When we first got there, Jem was running around and somehow ran head first into the metal bar on the SEAT of the tables we were sitting at. He immediately got a golfball size bump on his forehead and started crying that he was going to die! Great! Luckily we had an ice chest and ice and he was fine. Kettle corn. Hot chocolate. Crisis averted. Later, Jem got to feed the giraffes. He was not impressed. All they let him do was hold out a piece of lettuce which it quickly snatched up. They only let me (the adult) feed it the pellets which allowed me to feel the sandpapery tongue. He was kind of bummed about the whole thing. Oh well. Sarah insisted on pulling the fairly heavy wagon full of our lunches and an ice chest through most of the zoo. Not sure why. I finally had to insist it was someone else's turn just to give her a break. Our favorite part was the orangutans which were a riot this time. The young one was really giving his grandma a hard time, and the father kept having to break the two of them up. It was a real soap opera. Since the weather was so nice, a lot of the animals that usually are not out, were out walking around. The kids insisted on me taking their pictures in front of the kit fox because we almost never see them up and about. AND I saw the cheetah walking around and going poop! A real live cheetah pooping! You don't see that very often! Here are some pics from the day: