Telling time

What fun we had today! Our new friend, Berkeley, fit right in.

First, we talked about clocks. We practiced sitting like kindergartners and raising our hands to say something we noticed about the clock. We noticed the decorations, the broken parts, the numbers, the hands, and Berkeley noticed the clock wasn't working. They were pretty excited to reach in, pull out a time, and make that time on the clock.

We read The Grouchy Ladybug. They've all heard that before, but it's one of those you can always hear again.

For those of you moms, like me, who say "one more minute!" and then talk for 5, 10, 20 more minutes, you're in trouble! We learned how long a minute is, and it's short!

Here we are, writing our names. Most of us can write our names about 2 times in a minute.

We can stand on one foot for a minute and only fall over a couple times.

But, Ellie says she's an expert at standing on one foot because she took ballet.

And we can hop on one foot 53 times in one minute. Berkeley's and Rachel's tongues help them balance, I think. :)

Candy clocks: First we traced the numbers,

then we used licorice to tell the time.

We worked on a couple nursery rhyme pages that mention time. Gavin tried so hard to read all the words!

We read What's the Time, Mr. Wolf?, and decided that WE would be smart enough to decline a party invitation from a wolf who was licking his lips!

Then we played *Mr. Wolf, Mr. Wolf, what time is it?*

SAFE!