Even though it was Labor Day and other kids had the day off from school, we went ahead with our plan for a Montessori/project-based day at home. Inspired by the sunflowers we grew this summer, I planned a sunflower art project. Sunflowers have always been my favorite flower probably because they bloom in August, the month of my birthday.
We read the book "Sunflower House" by Eve Bunting and talked again about the parts of the plant. I had a large faux sunflower that the kids could hold and describe since our real ones on the back deck are almost dead. The book describes the life cycle of sunflowers through the summer, so it gave us a great Science component to our day.
We used markers, glue, different sized green yarns, and brown and yellow felt to create the sunflower stems, leaves, center with seeds, petals and the dirt for the flower to grow in. Ryker also wanted to color his background blue for the sky.
They were very proud of their pictures and we wrote numbers on the flower petals so we could practice 1 to 1 counting correspondence (a math IEP goal for Gwyneth).
Later in the day, we practiced rote counting to 20 with a sunshine worksheet. Gwyneth and I also worked through another Reading Lesson. She is starting to pick up on some of the oral instructions of the lesson which is more difficult for her to process than the visual tasks. For the handwriting part of the Reading Lesson, I'm starting to lighten up the pressure of my hand over hers so she can start to make the motions herself. Gwyn seems to be having fun with the short 15-20 minute lessons. After she finished her school "work" she picked out a Signing Time DVD for her "choice time" break.
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