For J week we began by reading about jam and making jam. We began by reading the book Jam and Jelly by Hollie and Nelly by Gloria Whelan, which is about a girl and her mother picking berries and canning Jam all summer and Fall to save money to buy the girl a winter coat so she could continue to go to school in the cold weather. Next, since I have never made jam and was not up to that project just now, we looked at this web site and read about all the steps involved in making your own jam. Maybe we will try to do some this summer. The next day we read the giant jam sandwich and I had planned to have Snow White write her own recipe for a jam sandwich but we never got to that. We still ate jam sandwiches for lunch that day!
Next we started in on Japan. We read the book Grandfathers Journey by Allen Say which both Snow White and I really enjoyed. We also read Japan by Micheal Dahl which had lots of great facts about life in Japan. When we finished reading I gave Snow White some pictures of Japanese things to make into a Japan book. I got the images here. The book turned out very nicely. The next day we read The Way We Do it in Japan by Geneva Cobb Iijima.
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We then went to the computer and followed some instructions to make a couple of Origami shapes from this web site. We made a butterfly and a Christmas tree. They turned out well and we had fun making them!
We also read a few books by author Ann Jonas
and read the rhyme of Jack and Jill and worked on "ill" rhyming words. I got the cards for some rhyming and riddle activities from this web site and am looking forward to using more of the rhymes and word families in the coming weeks. Since there were around 15 pages of rhyming cards and 8 or so more of riddle cards I put 4 pages onto one when I went to print them out. I also found out (since my laminator broke :( that you can laminate using the laminating paper and a hot iron. The cards turned out beautifully and hopefully they will last a long time.
Finally J is for Joy so we talked about being joyful especially during the season of Advent and Snow White made a joyful things book in which she drew pictures of all the things she has to be Joyful about. She included Jesus, flowers, family, house, ice cream and friends. We read the story The Clown of God by Tomie De Paola
and discussed how the boy spread joy to others through his juggling. I also taught her the acronym for JOY, Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last. She made this poster to remind herself (and our family) of it!
Overall we had a great J week. This week we will be getting back to school with K week. K is for the animal kingdom, kangaroos and koalas, kindness and Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha! Hope everyone had a Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year! I hope to be back soon with some Christmas posts!
Katie
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