O is for Octopus

I am behind on blogging, yet again!

So here's a quick recap of the past few weeks.

We finished our O is for Octopus unit,

Even the Octopus praises the Lord!

 We learned these 8 armed-creatures live at the bottom 

of the salty sea...

they squirt out black ink to ward off predators

and swim backwards (!) to escape!

So we made some octopus creatures...

 Worked on the letter O...

 Read books on the ocean and painted watercolor

paintings of sealife and water...

 It was neat using my old watercolors

from college (the colors were still vibrant!)..

 Painting jellyfish and the ocean...

 Some of the lovely sea books we read...

It was a fun unit!

 Last week at LEAP, the kids studied cows...

and made cow puppets, read cow books,

and actually MADE butter from cow's milk!

Em is "churning" the butter.

And I must say, the butter tasted GOOD!!

 At home Em loves helping out in the kitchen...

shucking corn for mamma.  :-)

 

 Eliz practicing her scissor skills making her octopus...

 Emilie writing words...

And practicing her sight words!