Animals

This week we have been studying about animals. Here are some of the fun things that we have done. We made masks of lions and pretended we were lions.





(Sorry, I forgot to flip them before I downloaded them)

We set up a zoo in our living room and took pictures of the animals. Here are a few of the pictures that Jonah took.

Today was Fun!

Today was such a fun day at school. We started our day like usual with Prayer, flag, reciting our family motto. We did our memory verse which right now is learning our phone number. We read our scripture and did our exercises. Then it was time for our value of the week. This week it is family unity and identity. So far this week we have read some stories from family histories. We read great grandpa Garners stories. Yesterday we made a paper chain with all of our names on it and a chain of love in the center and talked about how we all need to be in the family and have love to be united. Today, I pulled out Travis and my scrapbooks from when we were young. I read the boys some stories that I wrote when I was young and showed them some pictures that I drew. They got to see Travis' soccer and basketball pictures. The boys really loved hearing about us and loved to know more about us.
We moved on to our theme for the week which is Animals. We listened to the Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens. The boys listened to it and guessed what animal the music was portraying. Then they would dance around like that animal. Jonah especially got really excited about this. He loves to listen to music and move so this was perfect.
After this we moved to math. Today we talked about patterns and sorting and we got out some colored shape manipulatives and the boys made boats and animals out of them. They really got excited about this as well. It was just all together a good day at school!

Week of September 1st

Well, I haven't had time to post for a while so I thought I would get caught up. Last week was a fun but busy week. We didn't have school on Monday due to Labor Day and Tuesday we had school in the afternoon because Travis was home and we had some important things to get done. That kind of threw us out of our routine and it was kind of hard to get back into the groove for the rest of the week. We still had fun however. We worked on shapes. The boys made some fun shapes out of flour and water. i wish I had cookie cutters that were shapes but I did not. Because of that most of them just ended up looking like big blobs, but that is ok. We let them dry and the boys painted them the next day. They were so impatient while waiting for the to dry. They were really excited to paint them.





We also played a twister sort of game with different colored shapes and I told the boys to put their hands and feet on the shapes that I told them to. I got them really twisted up until they fell over. That was a lot of fun! Yes Simon is in his underware. He usually is dressed for school, but I think he had just gone to the bathroom.

We also talked about adoption and read letters from their birthmoms. We talked about when they were born and how much we love them and are glad to have them in our family. Our value of the week was relationships and we talked about how important relationships are and that we need to take care of them. We acted out proper ways to treat people. We have also been working on our ABC books. They will probably take us the next few weeks to finish up. We are just cutting and pasting pictures out of magizines that start with the different letters of the alphebet.