Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Rainbow Buffalo


(There is a company that makes kids' drawing into stuffed animals -- isn't that just a brilliant idea?  
I may have to make one myself with this buffalo FPFJ drew for his friend Chilembi's birthday card.)

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Homework

Homework is a new thing for Finn.  Owen loves to help.

Homework is so we can learn how to read.  And so your mom reads to you and you can learn how to read to.  My homework for school is FUN.  We do reading.  I have two word lists.  The words are:

a
and
dad
is
the
mum
no
it

at
we
to
was
big
she 
me 
on

The letter sounds we have learned about are: L, T, H, F, C, K, I, O
(they teach the phonetic alphabet! we are learning together....) 

I get books to take home AND my library book.  The book has pictures and mom or dad has a sheet with lots of words that go with it.  I get to tell my own story and also to hear the book story every day.  The kids in the book are Biff, Chip, Kipper.  They dog, Floppy.  My library book this week had 5 chapters.  It was called Postman Pat.  He had a cat named Jesse.  

Jamaica Day


Jamaica is a country. It is an island.  It is in the Caribbean Sea.
The capital of Guatemala is SO EASY.....Guatemala City.  I do not know the capital of Jamaica by memory.  Mommy tells me it's Kingston. Mommy teaches Passports and I take the class with the big kids.

The flag is:  yellow X, green triangles at the top and bottom, black triangles at one side and at the other side.  Yellow is for sunshine, green is for hope, black is for strength and creativity.  Strength like in the football game.  How good you are at skill.

We studied pirates so we could make pirate puppets.  We made story bracelets using the colors of the beach, the sea and the Jamaica flag.