Learning Highlights: November 2013

The  month  of November was filled with learning about nocturnal animals and Thanksgiving. I am not quite sure how we got on the nocturnal learning exactly, but it happened and it was good. Maybe it happened when Seth asked a question about a nocturnal animal. Maybe it was when I found the stuffed possum that I used as a class mascot in a bin downstairs one day. Either way we enjoyed ourselves. We watched YouTube videos of possums playing dead, and we even stopped on the side of the road to examine a possum that had been hit by a car. I'll spare you that picture, but we loved our little adventure!

Meet Joe. He's almost as important as llama in this family.

 

We also checked out a ton of books from the library about nocturnal animals and

we sorted animals on paper.

  

Then we switched gears to Thanksgiving later in the month. 

Again, we used a lot of books to help us learn about Thanksgiving.

  

The boys made several crafts throughout the month at library 

story times so we only did a few at home. 

 

 Some things that happened this month that were a first was the introduction of beginning sounds and addition. Seth would randomly announce a word like dog and say "that starts with a d." He does that all the time now. He also would say "plus 3 plus 4 is" and would count his fingers and would count correctly. This amazed us because we have not been working on this! It just happened. We are going to embrace this new phase and start some simple addition after the holidays.

 

We've had to take a break from our structured learning so far during the month of December, but the boys have already enjoyed some Christmas learning with the grandparents, so I'm sure there will be plenty to share by the end of the month.