Mish Mash Splash

August 18, 2013

Amphibians, Water Lilies and Words Oh, My!

This past week Cannon and family have been figuring out the best way to care for the ten tadpoles fished from my friend’s pond last Sunday.  Mom learned how to how to siphon off stinky pond water and to add fresh water for everyone, humans and tadpoles alike, to enjoy.

We watched part of the Eyewitness video on Amphibians and then completed a Venn diagram on the similarities and differences between the Frog and the Toad.  Cannon learned the sign for Frog and he learned that President Ronald Reagan had a frog named Jelly Bean. 

On the tadpole expedition Cannon helped feed the goldfish in the larger pond.  Gold fish of every size and color combination rushed from under the water lily pads to the edge of the pool to nibble on the pellets Cannon threw out to them.  The pond reminded us of the water lily paintings by Claude Monet.  So we took another look at his paintings of water lilies.

 

Then Cannon looked at the photograph of my friend’s water lilies and goldfish.  Cannon selected the colors for his pallet and began work.  He worked in layers again putting in the blue green first then adding highlights and at last some bright orange brush strokes to indicate the goldfish rushing to feed. Cannon learned the sign for fish.

 

Words, Words, Words!

Between layers of paint we played with words. Cannon showed me the spelling words he was working on and we played with the new word family flashcards.  Then it was time to get out Cannon’s new dictionary and go on a “word hunt”.  Cannon opened the book to a random page and pointed out a word. Then we read the definition and discussed the word before highlighting it and adding it to our list.

 

 

We got out the map of the United States and Cannon was challenged to match the outline of the state on the flash card he drew out of the pack to the state on the map.  Cannon always wants to go to Washington to visit friends and California to visit family.

 

We read The Letter, Story from Frog and Toad Are Friends.  It is one of our favorites.

 

Words Captured on Today’s Word Hunt

Pandemoniem



At the end of our day Cannon likes to cross off
the activities on our list and erase the board.

Knight

Tape dispenser

Canopy

Catbird

Castle

 

New Signs

Frog/toad

Fish