Week 5 Where I Live/We All Live in Homes

The topic for this week morphed in the planning. At the library I found one nearly age appropriate book for a 4 year-old, it was the Read-About Geography Series Idaho by Pam Zollman. Much of the vocabulary was lost on my daughter, but some things were nice, like being able to identify Idaho out of the whole United States. Another book we read was A is for Art: Boise's Public Art Alphabet Book, we were able to talk about our city, the ABCs, and art all at the same time. Awesome! We also visited our state capitol last week. It turned out to be excellent timing for Preschool, it was our first field trip.

 We also got to visit Dad while at the capitol, because he works next door.  We are lucky.

We found a book about animal homes, Animal Homes by Brian Wildsmith.  It highlighted different animals and the homes they live in.  We read the book, and then for further exploration, we looked up videos of some of the animals in their homes.  We looked up the beaver and learned about how they build their lodges and dams. We looked up eagles and watched how they catch their food.  It was really fun.

 I also started her on a small sewing project.  She was pretty excited, that's excitement and cheesy posing in the picture above.  I drew a lion on the fabric and she started stitching.  She was tired of small stitches pretty quickly.  But we worked on it a couple times during the week.  It was a simple quiet activity.  I saw this on Pinterest - I LOVE Pinterest! Here is a link to the website where I got the sewing idea.

We also talked about the types of stores you find in a town through the book Around Town by George Haber.  I didn't challenge her to memorize her address, but I think by the end of Preschool she will be ready to learn it.

We had a busy week, so the rest of school was done on my phone.  I had her do letter tracing on the Preschool Fun app.  And we worked on counting up to 15 on the Preschool and Kindergarden app which allows you to set the number of items to be counted and you repeatedly count to that number.  It helped her learn that 15 (not 18) comes after 14.

 We raked leaves in the backyard. And then we chose some special leaves to send to Grandma. Grandma loved her letter!

 Lastly, we made applesauce to can. She is my big helper.  Pretty soon she'll be making the applesauce all on her own.  I wish we'd done a little more direct instruction about where we live.  I'll just have to try harder next week.