Today we are keeping it pretty chill around here. But we decided to extend our pond study because Elliot wanted to learn more about frogs so here we are. Tomorrow we will explore this week’s theme but today and Friday frogs it is! So we read My First Book of Nature: The Frog to get started and then Elliot completed a few worksheets and did some count and clip cards with Daddy. After lunch we read The Frogs at the Rainbow’s End, a story in Fables by Arnold Lobel. Both books are from Dan’s childhood collection which I love. Looking forward to more frog studies and of course our new lessons tomorrow.

Today we got a late start but continued with our nature study and some general lessons. We read Pond by Gordon Morrison and learned all about how they change through the seasons. Then after completing some worksheets Elliot colored a POND letter sheet, we looked at a winter scene in One Small Square: Pond and he drew a pond in our nature journal. The plan was to draw the animals in the mud getting ready for winter but someone didn’t want to.

We also looked at a beautiful print of the pond ecosystem along with a review of all the animals and plants that thrive there and practiced numbers with new count and clip cards that Elliot really enjoyed. Both from @stephhathawaydesigns. It’s a very cold and windy day here so we are keeping cozy inside for sure.

Today for our pond study Elliot and I read Over and Under the Pond by Kate Messner (a fave) and Pond: One Small Square by Donald M. Silver and learned more about the animals, bugs and plants that live in and around ponds. Elliot had his letter and number lessons and then completed the turtle in our tape activity book. For our art session we both painted a pond scene. I plan on using mine for another project this week. Pond life is pretty neat.