Lentil

Lentil turned out to be an unexpected surprise. I didn't think Zoey was going to enjoy this book too much for some reason but she and I both really got into it. The story is about a boy, Lentil, who sings badly and cannot whistle because he can't pucker. He buys a harmonica and becomes and excellent at playing it. When the town celebration is almost ruined because of Old Steep sucking on a lemon, Lentil plays his harmonica and saves the day.

Because of so many other things going on we spread out the activities over two weeks. We started off by putting our story disk on Ohio and looking at some books about Ohio. Then we discussed how the character Steep was disagreeable but had a change of heart by the end of the story. For language arts we discussed elements of a good story. Zoey was not interested in this and plugged her ears while I was talking. I ignored her and she ended up asking me questions about it. She is stinker for sure. For art we tried something new, charcoal! I was very surprised how well Zoey did. I was expecting a mess so we used it in the garage.

Later we cut up a banana to discuss fractions. The lesson also suggested pointing out the illustrations in the book of music notes. Zoey didn't even give me a chance before she started talking about whole notes and so on. Wish I knew something about reading music. I think I will look for a basic book at the library. Maybe Zoey could teach me. For science we cut up a lemon and did a taste test. What an easy way to learn what sour is.

We talked about taste buds and made lemon-aid! We also made lemon chicken. I really liked it. Mat and Zoey were so-so about it and Sierra, meat are you kidding me! We also acted out the story once we found our harmonica. Zoey likes to act out the story if at all possible but I don't think we have done it since Ping.

In addition to this we continue to work on letter sounds, numbers, following directions and practice writing. Sometimes we just dig in the dirt.

One more picture just for fun. Zoey can really put together some interesting outfits....