School: Week Three, THE FOREST!

Our theme for September is "The Forest".  I wish more than anything that I had a video of Bea's reaction walking into the school room that first day.  She gasped and ran from shelf to shelf, shrieking at the sight of each new work.  She teared up and gushed, "You are the best mama ever.  Thank you for school!"

Leaf stamps.

Beatrice teaches Leona to match heads and tails.  This activity is from this Tot Pack.

Leona loves to match the animals with pictures in her books.

Making snack for her sister.

Beatrice explores her book (and everything else) with a magnifying glass.

Leaf matching.  Bea pretends to be a tree that loses all its leaves, then she collects them in matching pairs.  Note the helpful magnifying glass.

Exploring the owl clock.

Examining September with a magnifying glass.

Using the forest plant vocabulary cards with her toadstool set.

The pieces are so tiny, she has to really focus.

Exploring forest animals.

Behold!  The magnificent squirrel!

Working together.  Beatrice matches animal mamas and babies, Leona opens and closes the box the cards are stored in.

Such a wonderful hostess.

Experimenting with tongs.  Proof she watches and learns from everything her sister does!

Counting leaves on each branch and marking the correct number with a clothes pin.  This activity is from Homeschool Creations' Bird preschool pack.

Working with the movable alphabet and beginning sounds.

Sorting animal families, and then letting the owl carry each one back to the basket.  Kinda tragic.

Leona matches the animals in the basket with the animals in the book.  I thought this was pretty genius.

More matching. 

Art for sister.

Art appreciation...right before Leona ate half of it.

Studying van Gogh.