October 26, 2010: US- "God made us wonderful" (5 senses)

Today we learned the letter "U" for US, UNDER, UP, UMBRELLA, etc....and we colored and made our "U" books.



Then A- practiced and reviewed writing all the letters we've learned so far this year! I can't believe we are entering our 9th week of school already! Then mommy and S- worked on recognizing her letters. We are down to 7 that she still hasn't been able to get yet but I have a feeling she will get them down soon!



This week we are learning about our 5 senses. Today we learned about our hands and all about "touch." We learned that we have bones in our hands as well as muscles, and the muscles help us to move our hands.



Then we learned that we have 27 bones in each hand. We used our photo of the hand to help us count the bones.



Then we learned the names of our fingers, "index, middle, ring, little, and thumb"





We learned that "nerve endings" at the end of our fingers are what help us to feel things. So we then took a few things and put them in a pillow case and they got to feel them with their hands without looking and guess what was in the case. Then we put a thick sock on their hand and they tried it again and said "I can't feel anything!" This was great for explaining the importance of nerve endings and what they do, and that "God made us wonderful!"

We also learned our character quality for this week, "generous." Being generous is when we realize that everything we have is God's and we use it for his purpose, weather it's to bless someone else, or share a toy, or give up a toy for someone who might not have one. We will be trying to learn this quality all week!