Holbrook Heroes: Happy Valentines Day!

Last week, I tried to make a good part of our lessons focus around Valentine's Day. It didn't go as planned, but we managed to get some lessons done that way. It was kind of a short week for us, but it was filled with lots of stuff to do!

Reading:
We had a few Valentine themed books to read this week, including Hayden's early reader, "I Love You, Dear Dragon" by Margaret Hillert. We also read Minnie and Moo Will You Be My Valentine by Denis Cazet and The Sweetest Valentines by Jane E. Gerver. Hayden's spelling words this week were Valentine related as well(and unfortunately, we are going to have to extend these words for the next couple of weeks because he hasn't had a lot of time to study them).

L is for Loooove!

ABC Heart Match Up activity
This turned out to be a bigger activity than I had anticipated. He did a really good job matching all the upper case to lower case letters, but putting them in order was a colossal task. I had to help him do it since he got bored with that idea very quickly. Fortunately, he turned it into a game and didn't even realize that he was making it even more challenging for himself by doing so! He became stubborn, not wanting to tell me where the next letter was. Instead, he got "sneaky" and tried to look at it without pointing, and he would say, "Ummmm...3rd row, pink heart, 4th one down". Then I had to "find" it and say, "Whoa!! You're right!!"

Hershey Kisses Similes and Adjectives
Because I like to torture my children, I gave them Hershey kisses at 9:30 in the morning and made them LOOK at them and describe them to me as if I had never seen a Hershey's kiss before. They unwrapped them and described the sound of the wrapper crinkling. They described the color, the smell, the feel, and FINALLY, they got to describe the way it tasted. And just in case they couldn't remember, I let them try a second piece.

Writing:
Writing was nothing short of torture this week. So, it was kept pretty short and sweet (ha!). Instead, we used our manual dexterity skills to work on valentines for Daddy and some friends, and we did a few other art activities as well.

Trace-Copy-Recall Spelling words for the week

Hayden's copywork this week: Roses are Red poem. He wrote it on a heartshaped piece of paper
and then we glued it to a red construction paper for a frame.

Writing a message on a valentine card. "You make my heart flutter!"
(Awwwwwww....!)

The boys in their finished Valentine Hats and valentine bugs for Daddy.

Look how much we love each other!

Math:
Math was also slightly uneventful until we got to the end of the week. Mostly, we stuck with Hayden's Right Start Math curriculum. We worked with teen numbers, Hayden began making his own calendar, and......we finished the Cotter Ten Fractal!!! Yayyyyy!!!