Swimming Pools and Flys

Today during learning time we perused the computer to answer Declan's most recent question: "How do you make a swimming pool?"

We found a few sites that had step by step pictures showing how they make pools, from marking and breaking ground, to filling it up and doing the landscaping. It was pretty cool (and makes me want a pool).

And regarding reading, we started reading 'A Fly Went By' together. Lil Mister's biggest problem is that he tries guessing the word without sounding out the letters or completing the sentence with what he sees in the picture. To offset that, I'm going to have to extract one word or sentence at a time from the book onto the dry erase board. Less distraction= more focus.

Arts and crafts time went with the whole pool theme and someone got to design their own bathing suit. I drew the outline and finished it off with a pipe cleaner string, but the rest, from coloring to cutting, was done by the master craftsman himself...