To tie into the color theme we made a color wheel. Peter is right on the verge of consistently remembering how to mix primary colors to make secondary colors.
Peter's easy reader for the unit is called In The Basket.
Elliot looked at animal flash cards. According to him, an inordinate number of them say moo.
I've been reading about strategies to help young children become better life-long learners. One idea was to incorporate self evaluation of work from an early age. The theory is that throughout life we need to decide for ourselves if we made mistakes in our work, if it is neat enough to fulfill its purpose, which of our efforts produced the best results and how to replicate that, etc.
For the youngest children, the recommendations were to offer concrete ways for them to evaluate their efforts and to encourage them to think critically about which of their efforts produced the "best" work in their opinion.
Peter cut out his proverb which is a skill he is still developing. The thick (1/2") black lines gave him a way of assessing if he was cutting straight. As he gets better at cutting across a page I will make the lines more narrow. When he taped the proverb together it gave him a chance to practice using tape and to puzzle out the correct order for the words.
He also practiced writing the letter I. After he wrote his line of I's I had him circle the one that best matched the models. I think he made an accurate assessment.
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