Week 23 - Review

This was our last week of studying Asia.  The children enjoyed listening to a story of Pen-se and her brother Lin and the adventures they had. This is a very old book and through the story they learned about silk farms, why boys go to school but not girls, how parents would tie a piece of red yarn around a baby's wrist in order for them to become a good and obedient child. We ate some butter chicken and rice. We also learned about the Asian elephant and saw pictures of them decorated for parades. They enjoyed playing this too. One or two children would be the mahout (trainer & keeper) and the other children would be the elephants, waiting patiently to be decorated and then paraded about.

Some of the children worked on story writing this week, while others worked on sentence building. I always find this very exciting. If this is an area you'd like to work with your child on...this is what we do. To begin the activity I choose 5 objects and place them on the mat. I write out the words on a guide sheet so the child has the correct spelling. The story writer's job is to come up with a story using each object and for it to be interesting and accurate. The sentence writer's job is to come up with a sentence that begins with an article, uses the noun, includes an adjective and a verb. The children always find such delight in this creative process!

Next week we welcome back Mia & Sadie from their warm vacation destinations... and we begin our study of Australia and the children are VERY excited to learn about all of the animals of this continent.