April 29-May 1

This week in Nature/Science we will read about leaf venation and shape in Exploring Creation. The children will collect leaves, press them, and practice classifying them by shape for their Nature Journals. We are also planning to harvest our radishes and carrots this week. Our strawberry plants are blooming and beginning to produce strawberries, and the children are anxious for the blueberries on our blueberry bush to ripen. We will read “You Touch with Your Fingers” and play a game with a Feeling Box in circle. The children will work with Montessori Textured Tablets in Fine Motor Center. We will begin to read “Smell, Taste, and Touch” in our Christian Liberty Nature Reader. We will also create Texture Rubbings. In Social Studies we will read about The Feudal System in Knights and Castles and paint an illustration. We will also listen to a reading of Chapter 8 of Robin Hood (CD). In Phonics/Language we will practice narration with “Jack in the Beanstalk”. The children will also practice sorting objects beginning with W and X into letter tubs and play Tic Tac Toe.