The Linkous Family: November 2013

I haven't posted in forever!! I seriously have so much to update on I do not know where to start. First of all, Jordan is a senior. Holy cow I have a 17 yr old! that is a Senior! Nuts! Plus we started our co op again this year at first we had like 9 families, but after some drama we down sized to 5 families, which was really a God sent. We have 8 preschoolers, 2 1st graders and 5 3rd graders. We do language arts, math, science and history. For history, we are studying states and every other week my girls need to share a project and a food made from that state. It's a lot of fun. I am in charge of the preschoolers and as you can imagine, I am loving it! I will post some pics of what we have been up to. First of all we always start out with music time and then we roll into a story going with the theme we are working on. After that we usually do an edible craft and then some sort of worksheet that has to do with the theme and math or sorting or something of learning. Then we go into sensory bins that again go with the theme, then we do a craft and then a science experiment. We always have outside play as well of course. Here are some themes we did....
Letter C for Circus..

Music Time

Our edible craft, carousels made with apples, peanut butter, animal cookies and umbrella

I always make a sample for the kids, and this was mine.

Circus sensory bin, pom poms, popcorn, tickets, popcorn buckets, etc.

Science experiment, dancing popcorn.

Kayleigh's science experiment, this one was really cool, a hover craft

For our craft, we made clown noses.

Letter M for Me....

Color sorting M & M's and they got to eat them

Edible craft...pizzas to resemble them

Made an all about Me book that had their hand prints, finger prints, pictures of them, so on

Science experiment....we fingerprinted them and let them look at them trhough magnifying glasses.

Letter T for Transportation......

I forgot my camera this day, but this was our edible snack, an airplane

Letter H....for Halloween

Doing our letter H with Halloween stickers

Edible snack...candy corn with pineapple, oranges, and whip cream

Sensory bin....all kinds of food and gooey stuff

Science experiment...making our own slime...they loved this one!

Craft...mini lanterns

Kayleighs science experiment with Halloween candy

Letter Z for Zoo

Edible snack penguins

Craft, animals in their cages (animal cookies, behind their own cages)

The cages

Science experiment....how does rain happen. They took water with shaving cream on top and dropped food coloring very slowly to watch it seep through

Letter W for Winter