L is for Love, Length and Landforms

Well we finished L week almost 2 weeks ago so here is an overview of our week!

We talked about love and what it means to love someone (even if they are bothering you!) We had a love tea party with the tea set that Flower Picker got for Christmas. We had lemonade (tea) and homemade blueberry bread....which was delicious!





We then prayed the Chaplet of Divine Mercy and wrote our prayer intentions on the pink paper hearts that decorated our love table.

For some handwriting practice Snow White copied part of the verse about love from 1 Corinthians. We turned it into a poster which she was very proud of! It is hanging next to her poster we made for JOY during J week.



L was also for length so we read a variety of books on measurement and length.





We did lots of our own measuring using our own feet, crayons, pencils, string and a
ruler.



We also did a little measuring of volume with the stacking cups set that we have and water at the kitchen table.



We measured weight on our bathroom scale and height as well. Snow White loved walking around with her ruler finding things to measure!



Finally L was for Landforms. We had begun our landforms study in I week with islands/lakes and isthmus and straights. So we finished up our landforms book with peninsula and gulf, archipelago and system of lakes and cape and bay.





I think the book turned out very nicely and we will be able to look back on it in years to come!

Our author for L week was Leo Lionni and we read a variety of his stories most of which we had not read before. The girls particularly liked An Extraordinary Egg and Little Blue and Little Yellow (which Snow White could read on her own and read to Flower Picker in bed a few nights!).



We had a great and very productive week but things have slowed down a bit since then and we are struggling to make it through our M week with outside commitments and some sickness. Oh well we learn a little each day!!

One fun activity that we managed to get in that wasn't related to our alphabet path was some indoor snow play!



I brought in some snow since it had been too cold to go out and play and the children played on a table cloth in their mittens with some spoons and bath toys. They had a blast and ate a fair amount of snow in the process!!










Katie