G is for Garden

Our G week came just in time for some beautiful spring weather! It sure made our garden projects much more pleasant!

To start off the week I usually hide upper and lower case letters of the one we are learning around the house and make it a themed game to find them and sort them out. For instance, this week I hid these 'G' and 'g' flowers all over and gave Arthur a basket and we went around gathering the flowers. Then Arthur sorted out the uppercase letters and planted them in their own 'garden' (otherwise known as a green piece of paper), then did the same for the lower case letters.

We planted grass seeds in the shape of Arthur's name, so hopefully at some point in the next 10 days we will start seeing Arthur's name garden sprouting!

Our field trip this week was a visit to the Thanksgiving Point Children's Discovery Gardens.

Although the water features haven't been turned on yet, we had a great time exploring the garden anyway!

This is by far Arthur's favorite part of the garden- boat racing!

Stella enjoyed watching the boats float down the stream as well!

The sand pit was a fun highlight for us!

While we ate our picnic lunch on the grassy hill in front of this stage Arthur entertained us with storytelling, it was so cute!

We bought some fish food to feed the fish in the pond.

Arthur had a blast watching the fish swim slowly up to the surface and then suddenly gulp the food with big gaping fish mouths!

We also made our own paper garden to brighten up our kitchen. We used tissue paper, unsharpened pencils, egg cups from an old egg carton and Easter grass to complete the project.

Counting gumballs, Arthur pretended to be the candy man at a candy store. Once he had filled each 'gumball machine' with the appropriate number of paper gumballs he then sold them to us at outrageous prices!

Greece was our spot on the map this week, and boy did it make my mouth water!