Louisiana, 100th Day, and Tacky

February has been a busy month for us. First I wanted to share our calendar space. We have a calendar routine that we go through every morning. We practice number order, patterning, place value, counting money, time, writing the date (both ways), days of the week, months of the year, and weather graphing. I found the patterns for time, money, and place value here.Thanks to the awesome homeschool mama and teacher over at oneplusoneplusoneequals1.blogspot.com
I love my calendar header. I made these around nine years ago when I taught public school. February is one of my favorites.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 have been studying our great state of Louisiana this month. We are going to take a trip to New Orleans and see all these things we are reading and learning about. I have enjoyed all of Johnette Downing's books. We read Today is Monday in Louisiana and the activity below I used with Down in Louisiana. The book talks about different animals found in our state. My little four year old is still learning his numbers and counting with one to one correspondence so he was responsible for this pocket chart activity.

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. The pelican pattern allows you to make a pouch to put a fish in but we have yet to make a fish for him.

Here is our state flower, the magnolia. We used card stock and the patterns came from a fellow teacher years ago.

We bought a king cake for the boys to try. David loved it. John would rather have a doughnut. I'm excited for them to try beignets at Cafe Du Monde.

We made a K-W-L chart. We had not filled it out when we took this picture but the boys didn't know much and wanted to know a lot. I think they have learned a lot but I believe experience is the best teacher.

We celebrated our 100th day at the beginning of February. The boys had fun and I even got a little mini photo shoot in with them. You take what you can get when you have boys.

This was our second year to do the 100 snacks activity but they love it so much and David is actually counting it himself now. We had quite a spread.

In late January we read Tacky the Penguin. The boys really enjoyed this book.

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.

Here is a homemade Venn diagram where we compared Tacky to his friends in the story. Coming soon our study of Moses and the 10 Plagues and more Louisiana studies plus some Dr. Suess.