David was a little nervous about having to start back to school. Now that we are well into the year he is doing well.
Sweet brothers.
John is starting Kindergarten this year. He is so excited. Can you tell?
This was a "box" activity for John the first week back. Goes really well with the ten apples up on top book.
Ten Apples Up on Top center activity up close. I got this at making learning fun http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/ApplesUpOnTopMathIdeas.htm
John was so excited to review the letter b with his batman preschool pack from http://1plus1plus1equals1.blogspot.com/2010/10/batman-preschool-pack.html
He loved these box activities. I use "box" activities when I need John to be busy while working with David. Things are going way more smoothly than I thought they would be. Homeschooling two children is not that bad. :)
The fourth plague is the plague of the flies. We cut out shapes, oval, trapezoid, circles and glued them together to make this cute little fly. I added some clear trapezoids to my white ones for added affect on the wings. 
The fifth plague is the disease on the livestock. David's children's bible talked about the animals dying so we made x's for their eyes. John made a horse and David made a cow. Other animals the bible mentioned were camels, donkeys, and sheep.
The sixth plague was boils on the people. This one was hard but we found a way to represent it as good as we could. I had a cookie cutter that we traced and punched out little red dots for the boils. Notice the boys sad faces they drew on the people. 
The seventh plague God sent was hail. I know cotton balls don't do it justice but it was what I had on hand. 
The eighth plague was the plague of locusts. We found a cute idea online for a grasshopper and adapted it to what a real locust looks like. Here is a picture of the cute grasshopper craft.
And here is what a real locust looks like. 
Here is what we came up with.
They are a little scarry looking. They can definitely do some damage to crops. Only two more plagues to go. Look for those sometime next week. Have a great weekend.
The first plague water turned to blood.
The second plague is frogs all over the land. You fold paper as if to make a snowflake but make a frog pattern instead. You have to use your imagination a little bit to see the frogs.
And this is what you end up with. The boys enjoyed giving the frogs jiggly eyes.
We placed the frogs all over the school room.
These are my cute frogs. They wear hats that say yesterday, today, and tomorrow. I got this idea from a teacher that I student taught with. She had patterns for bears and every month has a different hat. The t-shirts help the kiddos identify the days of the week and their order.
We made our state bird out of card stock. The Eastern Brown Pelican was cut out and colored and put together with glue and sticky tack. My four year old decided express his artsy side with this pelicans second wing. 
We made Tacky's of our own and they sat with us as we read the book. My sweet big boy is the photographer and that's why you don't see him with us but his penguin is sitting on my shoulder.
