Summer Journals

Well, it has been an embarrassing long time since I posted.  Sometimes life just gets ahead of you I suppose.  Anyway, my oldest is now out of school for the Summer and he loves to have things planned to do so hopefully I can be better at posting what we are doing throughout the Summer.

I bought the boys little journals to write in each night before bed about what they did throughout the day.  I liked these because they were made for young kids so there is a place to draw a picture and then large lines to make it easier to write.  You can see in my picture what the pages inside look like.

 Today we took some time decorating their journals.  Since my youngest doesn't read or write yet I gave him a journal with blank pages.  He can draw a picture and I will write a sentence or two down that he wants to write about the day.  Here they are with their journals.

 Here is a closer view of their journals.  I just used scrapbook paper and stickers we had on hand.  You could have your kids use pretty much anything to decorate.  I think they turned out cute.  We are excited to try them out!

Ocean- Sting ray and wrapping up the week

Today we touched a little on sting rays.  We went to National Geographic Kids for facts and a video about sting rays.

We also did some of the activities from the preschool packs I posted about on Monday with our Shark theme.  My son also drew a picture of a sting ray and colored it.

 When my first grader got home my oldest two decided to write stories with ocean related topics.  My first grader wrote about different types of sea creatures.  He called it "Fish in the Sea".  He wrote about whales, sharks, sea turtles, dolphins, starfish, tropical fish. jellyfish, octopus, and squid.  I helped him spell a few words, but he decided what to say and did all the writing, drawing, and coloring himself.

 My preschooler wrote a story about a family (our family) who went on a trip to the ocean.  We stopped and looked around for a sting ray.  It was hiding in a rock cave, but when it saw us it got curious and decided to come out and explore so we were able to see him.  He made up the story on his own and wrote the majority of it himself, although I helped him on the last page...things were getting wordy.  :)  And of course he drew and colored his own pictures.

I am enjoying having little authors in the house.

You can check our our other ocean themed days here:

Sharks

Octopus

Whales

Jellyfish