S is for Spring

B fell on his Birthday, C fell when we were harvesting Corn, O fell during the Olympics, and S fell on the first week of Spring.  I love it when thing work out perfectly =)  Here's what we did!

Day 1

We usually sing songs on Day 1, and I know we did...I just can't remember exactly which ones.  We counted to 50, reviewed letters A-R and their verses, and learned letter S and its verse

My salvation comes from the Lord - Psalm 62:1

For our Intro to Letter S activity, I had Parker trace the Ss's on the board with his finger.

Then he erased them with a sponge.

He transferred water from one bowl to another with the sponge.

We reviewed some shapes and sorted them into shapes with straight lines and shapes with curvy lines.

Then, he made the shapes with straight lines out of popsicle sticks.  They have a small piece of velcro on each end to stick them together.

Then we read,

we laid out the book and he created on of the pictures that the mice made in the book.

 

Finally, we read

Day 2

After counting and reviewing, we sorted the letters that we've learned just like we did the shapes yesterday.  He made a few letters out of the popsicle sticks.

Next, he cut these four strips of paper on the lines.  He's pretty good at cutting!

Then, we read

After learning about real sheep, we read about David, a shepherd in the Bible.  We talked about what shepherds do, and then we read about Jesus being the Good Shepherd.  We read the parable of the lost sheep and talked about how much God loves his children!  It brings me so much joy to talk with him about these things.  One of the many blessings of parenthood.

We had our niece and nephew, Alain and Hunter, over night a few days later and we took them Kline Creek Farm.  The farm is restored and operated as in the 1890's.  

It was 30 degrees and cloudy, but we toughed it out anyway.  

First, we learned how to tap a maple tree for sap and turn it in to syrup. 

Then we saw the sheep and the 22 lambs!

They also had cows, calves, horses, and chickens.  We ended our little field trip by going on a tour through the farmhouse.  Parker wanted to hold both Alaina and Hunter's hands the whole time.

The tour guide taught us about how people lived back then, and we figured out that if we all lived together, I would get the first bath, and Parker would get the last ;)  The kids thought that was pretty funny.

Day 3

We started by reading 

We learned that seeds come in different colors, shapes and sizes, and they need water, soil and sunshine to live.  

I had a bowl full of different seeds and had him sort them in the egg carton. 

I've noticed this before when he's sorting things - instead of just grabbing a random seed out of the bowl and putting it in the right place, he would rather choose a certain kind and find all of that one.  Then choose another kind and find all of that one. 

Then I laid out the seed packages with a seed taped to the top and he had to match the seeds he just sorted to what kind of seed they were.  

We planted and watered some sunflower seeds and cilantro seeds and put them by the window.

We also read

 and

Later that day, we went on a Spring Scavenger Hunt at the park.  It has a nature path around a pond, so Parker walked while Adley and I followed with the stroller.  We had so much fun!  Parker was running up to all the trees to feel if the bark was smooth or rough.  He found everything in the scavenger hunt and then we got to play at the park a while, too.  And guess what?  It was 45 degrees and sunny!  It felt amazing.  I chose not to bring the camera.  Sometimes it's gets annoying trying to get pictures of everything instead of just enjoying the moment.   

Here's one benefit of being behind on the blog, I can give you an update on the seeds =)  They sprouted within a couple of days.  He used his tractor to haul the dirt and transplanted the sunflowers into the pots.  

Yay for Spring!