Finally Turtle Week!

This little guy has been telling me for months now that he can't wait until we get to the letter T so that we can learn about turtles! So when the week finally arrived I of course had to do a unit on turtles just for him. You should have seen how excited he was when I told him it was turtle day. We learned all about turtles and where they live, their babies, predators, and how they protect themselves. It of course wouldn't be turtle day without learning about the fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare". Afterwards we made our own turtles that had a string attached to them so that the kids could walk their turtle. They absolutely loved making them come to life.

Later in the week we continued to learn about our 5 senses with this week learning about different sounds that we hear. I found a great site that had all sorts of fun sounds. The kids had fun listening to them and trying to guess what each one was. For cooking we made Strawberry Banana Smoothies. A few kids said it would have tasted better with ice cream in it. But I told them it is good to have a healthy snack without lots of sugar. (Plus they got a cupcake for a birthday treat with it, so I figured they had plenty of sweets for the day :)