Letter V

We learned about letter V this week, and I found it was a fun letter to have! We started off by reading some books about volcanoes. The kids all really loved the pictures and talking about hot lava.

Then we practiced writing our Vs, and quickly went on to the fun stuff! I had to laugh because the first time I told them we were going to do a science experiment, they all groaned. But when they saw how fun science experiments are, they changed their minds. So on Wed., when I said we were going to do a science experiment, they all got really excited! Since we read books on volcanoes, we had to make our own.


They each made a "volcano" and we took turns having them erupt. I was impressed with how un-messy this was, due in large part to how well behaved and cooperative the kids were.

Then we painted with vegetables, which was a lot of fun. Again, I expected a mess ( the paint was washable!) but they did really good.

I think the onion was a favorite. It made a neat design.

Then we practiced a bit of counting and addition, and played with shapes.

For snack, we had vegetables. A couple of the kids tried some new things. Riley tried bell pepper and didn't like it, but did like the radish. Claire LOVED the radish and ate a whole one. Ava tried one of everything, and Caleb didn't even want vegis! Emily, Linzie, and Carter stayed with the tried and true celery and carrot sticks, and everyone had ranch to dip in. I expected that vegis wouldn't be enough , so we also had vanilla wafers.
A fun V day!