How I love Margaret Wise Brown's books! Autumn is finally in swing here and "The Runaway Bunny" goes along splendidly with the weather.
Reading
This has been a favorite book of ours since she was a baby. We read it every day this week, along with "Goodnight Moon" again for comparison. She found the swapping of illustrations between the books hilarious. We point it out each time we read them.
We discussed crops, scarecrows, and crocuses. She traced a few of her handprints and taped them around some pencils. She looooves using her crocus pencils!
We read Jeremiah 31:3 about God's everlasting love. We also read Psalm 139 to remind us that God will be with us no matter where we go, similar to the mother and baby bunny.
Letter of the Week: I
She completed another Bada Namu alphabet project!
Science
The first color illustration is of a decaying tree. This was a great new word for us to discuss, especially now that it's autumn. We went on a leaf scavenger hunt and paid special attention to any plants in decay. We used this leaf scavenger hunt page and this leaf graphing worksheet. We then used the leaves to make crayon rubbings!
Apples were perfect for an experiment this week! We discussed the parts of an apple: leaf, stem, flesh, seeds, core, and skin. I read this apple star story from Happy Home Fairy and then cut the apple horizontally to show her the star inside.
We took the seeds out and put them in a cup of soda to watch them "dance." We talked about why they bounce up and down. The seeds are more dense than the soda, so they sink, then air bubbles from the soda form around the seed, and they float back up again!
We had 6 labelled bowls. The first bowl was our "control" with only apples in it. Each bowl after that was apples submersed in a liquid. The second bowl had water, then salt water, then apple cider vinegar, then lemon juice, and finally soda. We used this worksheet from Pre-K Pages. We checked in on the experiment after 2 hours, and then we checked it the next day! She loved recording the data and using new scientific words.
And to end our apple experiments, we made a volcano! Scoop out the inside of an apple, add baking soda and apple cider vinegar, and watch what happens.
Math
We compared disks, 2D circles, and 3D circles and pointed out they're all still considered round.
Art
Cutting apples in half (and small handle on the back) proved to be great stamps! She stamped them in paint to create her own orchard.
She made a corn on the corn out of construction paper and glued cheerios onto it as kernels.
Music
This week was full of fun songs!
