Letter 'C' and More

Our week started out with flooding - so our day Monday looked a lot like this:

But we were cozy in our house atop the hill - and school stayed in session for the duration of the week, sadly to some of our students.

C Week for Joseph!

Crab craft can be found here

C is for cotton

We also read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - and Joseph completed a lapbook with much supervision.

This is a wheel attached by a brass fastener [you can purchase in the office supply dept. I got mine at Wal-Mart]. As the child spins the wheel he retells the story.

If you give a mouse a cookie,

he's going to want a glass of milk,

if he has a glass of milk,

he'll want to use a straw...

The child dictates here while the mother writes it down.

Feed the Mouse a Cookie... or 20!

I had Joseph leave the lower part of the mouse's face unglued, so as he feeds him cookies they slide under his nose...

I laminated my Joseph's cookies and made a pocket for them + the numbers

that go in the blank box which instructs the child how many cookies to give

the mousie. I had to include a flap of sorts, so that they wouldn't spill all over

everytime the lapbook was opened.

Match how many chips are in the cookie to the correct number.


Even though this is "C" week for us, there were many "M's" that were included in this
lapbook. So here are a few "M" activities and books...

Nursery Rhymes all having to do with mice...

And this, I just loved - very near and dear to my heart! My mom would always

recite this [and probably still does] when we saw the moon growing up.

So, I say this too to my own children!

The back cover. The End.

The lapbook instructions you can find here! (scroll down a tad)

Love this site for lapbooks!!!

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Thanks to Kimberlee and her talented daughter Lydia, we're starting our

MANNERS ALPHABET!

"A" is for Always Ask

You can go here for the printables which Kimberlee has so graciously shared!

Someone was bead sorting and populated Asia in the excitement!


~Art Work~

This is for Kayla:
Look at this drawing which John Paul drew today. I love all
the detail - seen in the second photo.
I thought you'd love all the sketch work - I surely do :)

John Paul's Cobbler

Therese, Sophia and John Paul drew this lion in drawing class today.

Can you see the line of symmetry?

To get the instructions for Linus the Lion go to drawspace.com -
there is a free membership.

Hope you enjoyed the glimpse into our week :)

Have a blessed weekend!