Mish Mash Splash

Tiger -in-a-Tropical Storm by Henri Rousseau

January 27
On a Tiger Hunt with Henri Rousseau

We continued our trip around the world stopping in India at the Jim Corbet National Park.  We read a short paragraph about Jim Corbet and his adventures as an eleven year old in India. He later became a famous Tiger hunter.  Then we looked at Henri Rousseau's painting of a tiger hiding in a forest.

Cannon began a collage of a tiger hiding in a forest, he used his new cutting tool to cut tall and sort grasses and leaves and began pasting them down using a glue stick. Then he got a bright idea
and reached for his apple core tool and used it to firmly press the papers onto his picture.

Cannon had the idea to use the rounded end of his Apple Core Tool
to smooth down the pasted paper.

We are not finished yet and will continue this next week.


















Meeting Captain Underpants



Cannon meets Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey

Cannon was introduced to Captain Underpants and his two naughty friends George and Harold.  He thinks his dad looks like George who wears a tie and has a flat-top.  The boys invent the super hero Captain Underpants and write about his adventures at their elementary school. In the first story Captain Underpants saves the school by flushing away the "inedible Hunk".  Cannon learned several new words and dad had to explain what a "wedgie" was. 





Scrabble Snacks
 

Can't wait to make this Scrabble with crackers.

Cannon made a list of words words from the story and we used them to play Scrabble Junior.  First we laid out the words using the Banana Grams and then we laid out the words using Cheez-it crackers that have the letters of the alphabet pressed into them. We nibbled on the crackers as we worked. Yum!

Checking out the box.

The List
We started our session by making our list and assembling our materials.  But before we started Cannon wanted to share his book about an airplane ride and pointed out the picture of the family being picked up by someone who was just like his uncle who picks his family up at the airport too.  What fun, making connections from his reading.
Before we started we shared a story about Frog and Toad and winter.  Then we started on our list.  At the end of our session we crossed off the things we had completed.  We didn't get everything done but it is nice to have something to look forward to in the next session.