R is for...

Rain- We did a science experiment and made it rain in a jar. The girls were so excited to see actual rain drops fall and would shout "I saw one" each time they dropped.

waiting for the rain to start

Rainbows- We talked about the colors of the rainbow and what it takes to make a rainbow and then the girls did a sticky wall art to make a rainbow which has been hung up in my craft room.  It was cute I showed the girls what to do and made sure they knew which colors of the rainbow went where by putting one color in the middle of each arc. When I was finished Ashley said, "That was boring, I wanted to do something more fun than that." I told her that we weren't done that they could fill it all in. She thought that was fun. Rachel asked a couple days later if they could take off the squares and do it again.

Rainforest- We talked about the different animals that lived in the different levels of the rainforest and then watched the movie Rio.

Robots- Ashley worked on her letters with a dot to dot (she's really getting the hang of the letter ones now) and with a file folder robot letter matching. The file folder game brought the lack of knowledge of lowercase letters to my attention and we will be working on that.  Rachel's new math skill today were fractions. She of course caught on real quick. It always amazes me how she absorbs information.

Race cars- The girls were excited to race on our newest race track. I was excited to make it. I admit this is the whole reason we did race cars this week. We made a bracket to see which car out of 7 was the fastest and compared how the one car that always won was heavier than the others causing it to go faster. We also reviewed letters and sight words on a racetrack board game.

resources and ideas came from:

rain experiment- pinterest find links to trainupachildlearnaswego.com

sticky wall art rainbow- a pinterest find links to mamapapabuba.com

file folder game- www.kindergartenkindergarten.com

robot fractions- www.homeschoolcreations.com

race track- found on pinterest links to www.ramblingsfromutopia.com

Books we read:

What makes a rainbow

If I ran a rainforest- dr seuss

Rollie Pollie Ollie-

Berenstain bears and the big road race