Lentil

This week's Five in a Row title was Lentil by Robert McCloskey. Since one of the characters in the book was Colonel Carter, we took the opportunity to talk a little bit about Veteran's Day. Some of the activities we did to go along with the book were:

1) Baking cookies for a US soldier currently serving in Iraq.

2) Writing a "Happy Veteran's Day" note to a friend of ours who is serving in the Army and has been deployed to Iraq twice.

3) Introduction to the Pledge of Allegiance.

4) Experimenting with the lip puckering power of a lemon.

5) We talked about musical instruments, counting quarter, half and whole notes, and practiced clapping in time to music. The new quarter starts next week, and we will start learning the piano, so these music activities were the perfect lead-in for that.