Learning Garden: All about I

Today we learned about the letter I, we did a number review on numbers five through eight, and we talked about our sense of hearing. We started out the day by meeting Itsy Inchworm. We showed him all of the I things we brought today. I think I was a pretty tricky one, but everyone did a really good job! We had an itchy monster, ice cubes, insects, and an igloo. For math graph we did our favorite flavor of ice cream, chocolate or vanilla. Most of us liked vanilla!

Then we started our letter art. Today we made an inchworm and an iguana. We didn't do any poster letters today. Since we got behind I think we're going to do all the poster letters in two weeks when we do our letter review.

After that we talked about our ears and what they do. We made loud noises and soft noises. Then we talked about all the animal noises we know and we pretended to be those animals. The kids were really good at pretending! Even Lillian got in on the fun.

Here Nate is showing us how to be a dinosaur.

Next, we broke out the paints so we could decorate our instruments. Some of the kids were more interested in the water and how it changed colors, and some gave up on the paint brush completely and started in with their hands, but however they did the shakers looked great when they were done!

When we finished that everyone was pretty hungry so we decided what better way to learn about I than to make Ice cream! It was super easy and lots of fun. Unfortunately Deborah and I were so wrapped up in controlling the shaking that we didn't think to take any pictures until after. The kids had a great time shaking the bag until it got too cold to hold! They had a great time eating it too! I'll put the recipe at the end of this post in case any of you moms would like to try it at home.

We had lots of fun at play time. As you can see they made a great little hide out under Katie's crib. They also did a pretty god job putting together a band. Nate was on the drum, Alice sang, and Olivia played the xylophone.

After that we did our number review. We had pumpkins in a patch with seeds on them. We had to pick the pumpkin, count the seeds and put it in the right basket for the farmer. All of them were able to count all the way to eight with out help. One to one counting was a little harder for some of them, but I think we're coming along great! Then we practiced counting little pumpkins, but they weren't all that interested so it didn't last very long :)

By then our plates were dry so we put together our shakers. Unfortunately I should have bought bigger beans! We had a spill before we even started then as we tried to play them while we sang songs beans were flying everywhere! Jeffery kept playing his with his head and every time he would hit his head with beans would fly out the top. It was great fun lol!
We didn't have as much time to talk about loud and soft as I would've liked. I wanted to talk about the places we go and how we should talk in those different places. So if you have a chance this week talk about it some more. Maybe we'll be able to quiet sacrament down a little. We can hope right?

Next week we'll talk about the letter J, the number 9 and our sense of smell. See you all then!