Cicada + Silly Sight Sandy
Cicada Metamorphous
- it is not just for Frogs! Cannon examined the Cicada sent by our
gardening friend. We took a closer look
through our big magnifier to see the intricate and iridescent patterns on its
wings and the different green colored patterns on its back and head. When we turned it over we could see the
segments in the white colored abdomen and all six legs curled up underneath. We watched a time lapse video of the complete
metamorphous process. We are adding the
cicada to our curiosity cabinet. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/watch-a-cicada-metamorphose/276253/
Origami Cicada
Cannon and I made an origami cicada. I positioned the paper and Cannon pushed and
pulled the “folding bone” to make the
sharp creases. The result was a somewhat
abstract pink and white cicada.
Mastering Sight Words
Cannon has demonstrated understanding of 12 of the 95 Level
One Sight Words. He can accurately
select the words from the selection of similarly configured words. He can identify the words in the context of a
story. Only 83 to go!
want was we well went what
where white who will with word
yellow yes you
Silly Stories
Cannon was eager to open the miniature lunch box full of playing cards with pictures of all kinds of nouns, (places or things). We made a list of proper nouns to choose from
– Cannon, Miss Beth, Avalon, Mr. Dan, Mom and Dad and pronouns. Then we made a list of verbs/action words,
adverbs and other parts of speech.
Cannon selected 5 of the picture cards and then added the other parts of
speech to make silly sentences to make up a silly story.
“One Day Miss Beth jumped around the milk
carton and used an ax to cut the door
down. Avalon said, 'give me the ax. I will chop the door down.' Miss Beth
and Cannon chopped the door down with the ax and flew away in an airplane.”
Sand Castles
“Moon Sand” is great for squishing and squeezing and
exercising both righty and lefty and for building things. Cannon used the blue-green colored “sand”
material to fill molds – just like you would use a pail on a beach. After he built a tower he happily smashed it
down and made another. What a fun way to
exercise!
Story Time
Cannon used the sign for frog and toad to request a story.
The title of the story was Shivers. The
word Shivers is also in the title of one of his new books from school. Frog and
toad gave themselves the shivers when frog told a scary story to toad late at
night.
Throughout the morning Cannon would tease me by signing “hear/listen
bells”. Then we would stop and be very
quiet so that I could hear the bells….then he would laugh and shake his head “no”
to tell me he was teasing me.
New signs today:
dirty and happy
http://www.aslpro.com/cgi-bin/aslpro/aslpro.cgi
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