For all of our Easter resources please refer to the blog entry titled “Easter Resources“.
March 18-19
Sometimes you just have to stop and take a breather and since the previous weekend was St. Patrick’s Day and we shuffled some of our unit ending stuff (like assembly of the poster) to Saturday out of the necessity of having to make Wednesday a light day (VISITORS!!!) I figured it was best to throw all but our final St. P’s book, worksheet and our spelling out the window and do a jimjam day.
All at work
What was memorable?
Final book
In fact, our first in a year really! Those who had been keen to get dressed in the morning had the option to get back in their sleepwear and the rest of us grabbed pillows and blankets and sat back to relax.
Pj’s with accessories
After as much tv (with some blatantly educational stuff squished in for good measure… Word Girl, Handy Manny and his Spanish…) as anyone wanted and some yummy food for meals and snacks we moved onto Minecraft. I think one or two made their way outside to play in the snow too but so much was coming down it was just not much fun I am told. We have gotten a TON of snow this weekend!!!
Tuesday was back to the grind stone… though at a quicker pace than we are used to to catch up. Dinosaurs and Easter galore! We had our first Easter book – Easter by Trudi Strain Trueit.
Eggs!
Again, I am making a resource blog for this theme. So at the end of the series I will post all our links etc. If you are interested in something you see us doing here in the meantime drop me a line and I will send along my resources. I do love Activity Village and Education.com (both links on the right) for my thematic worksheets though!
A jumble of learning
We made TWO cards today, thumb prints of course. One is already in the mail box on its way to the birthday girl. The other is for Baby Lily. The kids have definitely gotten into the creative mode with these.. cats, hedgehogs, even a sheep have made their way onto the page.
Just waiting for words and signatures
We finally found a moment to record our special St. Patrick’s Day poem: The Fairies out of Sally Go Round the Stars by Sarah Webb and Claire Ranson.
Fairies
Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren’t go a-hunting
For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl’s feather.
The book we got it from
We ended our night with a movie… Veggie Tales: The Night Before Easter… not a bad ending to our day with popcorn and all!
The movie
Movie and popcorn
Tomorrow we start our Easter poem memorizing. Although instead of a poem… we are doing a song!!! Wish us luck!
Emanuel sharing his dinosaur time with Echo!
