Mish Mash Splash

August 25, 2013

Where in the World is Cannon Hoops?

Cannon enjoys maps and he is becoming quite the armchair traveler.  The new board game (based on the game Where in the World is Carmen Santiago) is revised and made just for Cannon.  We had lots of fun exploring the game and increasing his general knowledge and geography skills.  Mr. Dan and his wife even joined us and sang God Bless America for Cannon.  Did you know Irving Berlin was born in Russia?

 We also used the “States” flash cards to match the shape of the state on the card with the state on the large US map.  We focused on the middle region of the country and found Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana and Michigan. 

Cannon tried out the new modified sight words flash cards. He had to find the right word to fill in the blank in the sentence on the back of the card. The words to choose from had similar beginnings and similar configurations.  It took sharp eyes to choose the correct word.  He identified all twelve words correctly.  His reading skills are growing.

We also did our Dictionary Search and found: take (there are 15 definitions for this little word), incandescent, spelunking, spend and spin.

 

The Mysterious Disappearance of the Tadpoles

They vanished without a trace.  Mom is sure they did not go down the drain…she checked every possible place in the environment but no tadpoles or tadpole remains were found.  Hmm, it is a mystery.

Coffee Time – Reading Together

Cannon used the sign for frog and the sign for book to tell me he wanted to read one of the stories from the Frog and Toad books.  It was time for a break to eat one of the yummy cinnamon rolls mom left for us.  Cannon offered me another cup of coffee using the sign for coffee and then he made it for me himself. What a treat!

 

 

It was a fun and full day we were so busy we forgot to take pictures.  So we will have to use our mental pictures to remember the day.