This week Kanani has asked to learn about Horses. To be honest I actually thought we were done with the unit lessons for the summer, but she asked so of course I was more than happy to continue with our lesson plans. She's even picked the topics she wants for the rest of the month. As long as she has the desire to learn I am more than willing to help keep alive any way possible.
Here is our HORSE UNIT of the week.
Love the bond these two have, just looking at this picture you can see and feel the love.
COWGIRL KANANI AND COWBOY DARTANIAN
Kanani used to say that she wanted to be a Cowgirl when she grows up, now she wants to be a veterinarian.
OBSERVATION
Love how whenever he gets something new to look at he will observe from inch to inch.
PLAY TIME
At times they play nice together.
IDENTIFICATION
Taped several different cards to a horse so when Kanani woke up she could learn the horse parts.
She was very excited when she saw the horse waiting for her on the table. We quickly dove right in identifying the different parts. Once we identified each part I took the cards off then read them to her and she would place them where she believe they went, got to say she did outstanding. She got 14 out of 16 right.
PUZZLE BLOCKS
We always enjoy our Melissa & Doug block puzzles. I scrambled the blocks then had her arrange them correctly. She did it faster than I thought.
POOL NOODLE HORSE
I saw online a picture of a pool noodle horse and figured to give it a try since I had an extra pool noodle. Got to say it came out pretty good for something I made at the last minute.
SERIOUS COWGIRL
She has enjoyed her pool noodle horse, hasn't stopped thanking me for making it for her. Tried to get her to smile but she said she couldn't because she was chasing some bad guys.
SPELLING
I spelled out the word H-O-R-S-E on the dry erase board and then scrambled our Leap Frog magnetic letters. Once I scrambled the letters I went ahead and took the spelling down and had her place it in correct order. She got it the first try and then took the letters I took of the board and placed them under the ones she spelled out. Little man couldn't help himself, something about the Leap Frog letters he loves. He kept placing in the container to hear the sound of each letter.
WASH & CLEAN HORSE STATION
I placed a wash and clean water station on the floor while little man took his nap. Kanani was so excited to quickly begin. She first dipped the horses in a bowl of soapy water and then used a sponge to clean the horse. Afterwards she used a toothbrush to get in the hard to reach areas, and then sprayed them with water to get most of the soap off before placing it into the bowl of water. Last step she dried them off with the towel I provided for her.
SIZING HORSES
We went around her room and grabbed all the horses we could find, as you can tell Kanani loves horses. I asked to please line them up from either smallest to biggest or biggest to smallest.
DRAWING
Last thing we did for Horse week was follow instructions on how to draw a horse. I love her version of a horse, it's so cute. She also used some stencils we had of horses. This has been a very fun and informative week learning all about horses.
