Letter of the Week--S

Stars and Stripes...this week Delaney continued learning about the flag so we called it by it's nickname, 'The Stars and Stripes' for Liam's letter of the week.
We read about Betsy Ross, how she showed General Washington how making a 5 pointed star is much easier to make than a 6 pointed one.

We talked about the colors red, white and blue and what the colors represent.

Red--Courage (or phonetically written as 'krig' by Delaney)

White--Purity (pur--we're still working to add that silent 'e'.)
Blue--Justice (justis--again, silent e)

We also, made some 5 pointed stars by folding a square piece of paper in a certain way, one snip with the scissors and tad ah, you have a 5 pointed star.

Liam loves to paint so after making a flag with strips of colored paper and a star he added more stars with paint....and more and more paint... did I say he loves to paint?

For lunch, I let then cut their sandwiches into star shapes.

We planted some sunflowers in our garden this year. I cut one down to gather some seeds and glue them on paper to make their own "Sunflower" I found that it was diseased somewhat.

Under a portion of the seeds the plant had a slimy yucky stuff covering the plant--gross. Plus, a spider and 5 or so stink bugs came crawling out.

Cailin's been working on alliteration for her IEW class this week. We created this alliteration about our sunflower....

Our sick, stinky, slimy sunflower was infested with spiders and stink bugs.

Sharing and building Ships with Brianne.

There were so many more activities I had planned for this week,

that I'm going to extend 'S' for another week.