Spring 2018

May 21, 2018

Playing with his new math dice game we got.

He loves the numberline we made out of beads. Every day he draws a number from a jar and clips it to the right place in the bead string.

This is a therapeutic drawing activity we do each week called "form drawing". It helps with handwriting skills.

Preston's illustration of the fairy tale "Longshanks, Girth, and Keen". Can you tell which letters of the alphabet are hidden in the picture?

A really fun game we played where I had a bag of objects, and Preston had to place the object on the letters that he heard at the *end* of word when that object was pulled out and named.

This was a funny painting because it was pure Preston. The painting story was about three friends who slide down the slide together... he was supposed to choose three colors and paint nice straight lines of color next to each other. Well since Preston's favorite color is blue and he is pretty much obsessed with it--his idea was to choose two different shades of blue and then make a third shade by mixing the first two together. I thought it was pretty creative how he completed the assignment as instructed but figured out how to make it fit his own preferences.

We modeled seashells with pink pearls inside of them to go along with one scene in the Longshanks story.

Can you find the hidden letter in Little Red Riding Hood?

Our first forays into reading and writing!

For the fairy tale "The Nixie of the Mill Pond", we made our nixie (also known as letter N) so she could rise and fall in and out of the water.

Preston has been learning to play the pentatonic flute this year.

Playing on the playground at one of the parks in Olympia.

This beach is right in Olympia.

On the hike back to the car.

Another fun pre-reading game. I said a word, he had to put a jewel on any letter that he heard at the beginning or end of that word. At the end of the game, we saw which letter "won" by having the most jewels. He was very disappointed that letter "P" wasn't winning--so right at the end he hurried and put about 5 jewels on that card. But I got him--I told him they would only count if he could come up with 5 words that included the "p" sound--and they had to be words he had never used in any of our games before.

This was another painting he enjoyed. The story went like this: Yellow goes to play at the park with red and says to red, "You copy me and do exactly what I do, but don't touch me." (Then he painted the yellow spiral from the inside out.) Red responds, "That's way too easy. I'll do what you do--but opposite." (He painted red all around the painting and then into the spiral from the outside.) Blue came along (which made Preston super happy because he loves blue so much) and decided that red and yellow were getting way too crazy, so he came to calm red down. (Painted over red to make purple.) Preston loved this!