{Letter of the Week}

The book this week was Growing Vegetable Soup. This is an excellent book to learn about plants and how they grow! The Letter of the Week was Letter V. Sweet Pea colored the Letter V violet and then glued velvet on. She made a “rainbow” Letter V with her Do-A-Dot markers.

{Making Vegetable Soup}

These is typically one day when Little Bug is home and I am doing Ready-Made Preschool with Sweet Pea. Little Bug likes to join in on the lesson. I look ahead and plan to do a lesson that both girls will enjoy doing together! There is a recipe for Vegetable Soup in the back of the book. We used that recipe to make vegetable soup out of construction paper! They each had half a page of green, red, yellow, orange and brown construction paper and as I would read the recipe they would cut their paper to make the vegetables to go in their soup.

{Vegetable & Not Vegetable, Celery Experiment}

Sweet Pea got some grocery flyers that come in the mail and she cut pictures of foods that are vegetables and foods that are not vegetables. Then she glued them on her chart. We talked about the different foods and I encouraged Sweet Pea to maybe try to eat a vegetable soon! (She won’t eat vegetables at all.)

We did a Celery Experiment. Because we were learning about plants and how they grow, we took a stalk of celery and placed it in a jar of water with red food coloring. The girls observed the celery over a day or so and eventually they were able to see the red food coloring at the top of the celery! We discussed that this is how plants drink water to grow. They were amazed. This was also a lesson in patience because they were expecting to see red right away. The next morning when Little Bug checked on the experiment she saw the red on the tip of the celery stalk and was so excited and ran off to tell her sister!

{Valentine’s Day}

Since it is getting close to Valentine’s Day and our Letter of the Week was Letter V, we also read a Valentine’s book this week called The Night Before Valentine’s Day. Then Sweet Pea got to make a Valentine visor!

- Elaine