Megan School 5/3 - 5/7

We had a really busy week and Riley was home on Monday for a teacher professional day so we went to Jump Planet to play. The kids love this place and for just $10 all 3 of us can jump and slide to our hearts content. I tell ya, it's really quite a workout for us moms!

Our theme of the week was:
Health and Nutrition

We worked on the letter F for Food.

We talked about doctors and how they help us. Leading in to that we messed around with colored band-aids. First she sorted them by color, then counted how many of each color there were.

Then I'd start a pattern and ask her to finish it. She loved doing that!! Then she even came up with her own patterns.

And when we were all done she did 'Band-Aid Art' by sticking them anyway she wanted to the paper.

We talked about good food and bad food for our bodies and how we feel after we eat certain foods. She was pretty smart when it came to what was good for you and what wasn't. I was a little concerned when we started off and she thought Ranch dressing was good for you but then everything else she placed it correctly on the paper. Phew!

I printed these out from an order I placed with Me & Marie. I spread them all out on the floor and had gathered a basket of play food. She took each item out and had to determine what category it belonged to. She knew all the sweets and surprisingly all the dairy (there was a egg over easy and a egg still with the shell on) but she did have some troubles with which was a fruit and which was a veggie. Not bad though.

We also did a science experiment after talking about germs and how they can be bad for our bodies and make us sick. After they came in from playing in the backyard I had them watch me peel a potato and cut it in half. I handed one half to Riley and told her to rub her hands all over it and then give it to Megan to do the same thing. They then went in the bathroom and washed their hands really well. I handed them the other half of the potato and instructed them to rub their hands on it too. We have been charting it for a week now and not much difference has been seen. Supposedly the dirty hands potato was supposed to be growing things while the clean hands potato wasn't supposed to have much change. As you can see in the picture, neither has had much change. The dirty one IS slightly dirtier but not growing things.

We are going to continue this subject next week too as I have a lot more I want to do with her. Some of the things I want Riley to partake in also as I think she could benefit from it as well.