The Very Quiet Cricket

Itty Bitty Bookworm

We began our new year of Itty Bitty Bookworm this week. The past year we jumped back and forth between year one and year two of the Bo Curriculum. This year they have added year 3 beginning with September. We are very excited about the addition of an author/illustrator focus. I have always made a big deal about pointed out the author and illustrator of a book so our kids insist that you tell them the author and illustrator. To them it is just as important as the title- and well it is of course. This week and next week we are focusing on Eric Carle. We own tons of Eric Carle books and borrowed several others from the library. We visited Eric Carle's web page, watched him demonstrate his tissue paper painting techniques, and watched and listened to Carle read his most famous book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Our focus book was Eric Carle's The Very Quiet Cricket so our week was all about crickets.

We spent several days working on layering paint colors on tissue paper just like Eric Carle does to illustrate his books.

Dad found us a cricket to observe. We fed it grapes and carrots.

Caleb and Hannah painted crickets pictures.

Preschool

From Raising Rock Stars Preschool, Hannah worked on the color blue, the number 3, the letter Hh and the word "and". She is so excited to be learning some site words and often brings me a book and says "Mommy, here's my word!".

Caleb joins us for a few parts of our RRSP work. Basically just whatever he sees that he wants to do. I don't require him to do any of it other than listen to our Bible Story and learn the Bible verse. He likes seeing how long the Bible verse is after he cuts it out and tapes it together.

Handwriting practice

Hannah working on her Bible verse craft.

Hannah traced her foot as part of her other preschool worksheets.

Other Fun

We had family visiting for the Labor Day weekend and took a day trip to Stone Mountain.

Check out what others have been doing this week at Homeschool Creation.