BFIAR: My Blue Boat

Solar Eclipse!

To kick off our third week of school, we took a library trip to observe the solar eclipse. Our librarian gave us NASA glasses to view the eclipse safely. The library also had Moon Pies and half vanilla/chocolate Oreos! It had been 99 years since a Great American Eclipse! It was a great day.

We sang "Tuning Up For Outer Space" all week long!

We read many great picture books about the sun and moon. I have to share the book "The Moon is Going to Addy's House" by Ida Pearle. It was the perfect find for Monday. I want to add it to our home library (even if we don't spell Addie with a Y)!

We created our own solar eclipse project. She took dark blue paper, traced a circle with yellow chalk, and spread the chalk down to look like the eclipse!

BFIAR: My Blue Boat

Reading 

We read "My Blue Boat" by Chris L. Demarest. The new vocabulary included channel, harbor, fleet, beacon, and more. She asked about each of their meanings! We tracked the boat on its journey and left to right. We also compared a few similar pages with "Yellow Ball."

Thank goodness for our library, because she consumed many new books this week about harbors, boats, lighthouses, oceans, whales, dolphins, and more!

We used this preschool book report. We also practiced verbally summarizing the story.

Letter of the Week: C 

For letter C, we created this adorable uppercase cat and lowercase cookie!

Science: Floating vs Sinking
This science experiment was her favorite. We filled two containers: one with regular tap water and the other with salt water. We grabbed items throughout the house to predict, observe, and record whether or not they sink or float. The printable was pulled from The Measured Mom's blogpost.

Art: Watercolors 
First we used a white crayon to draw her boat. Then she painted with watercolors! She of course added a yellow sun and purple waves.

Art: Clay 

We created a copy of the little girl's boat in the story. We talked about the mast, the bow, and the sails. 

Music

Here were our favorites songs from the week! Many were already familiar to us, or we already knew the tune.

• "Row, Row Your Boat"
• "Once I Caught a Fish Alive"
• "Waves in the Sea"
• "Take Me Out to the Sea"
• "Baby Shark"