A Fair Affair

To celebrate summer and a year of lessons under our belt, this week we've been playing fair and carnival games.  We were going to end the week with a trip to our local fair, but Genevieve fought the very idea.  She was more excited about her dentist appointment.

We started off by lining up a row of Solo cups and tossing balls into them.  It helps if you weigh them down a bit.  We tried different balls to see which was easiest to throw with precision.  In the future, we may number the cups and aim for a total or add letters inside the cups and try to spell a word for prizes.  We also practiced building a pyramid out of cups and trying to hit them with a ball.  We played with balloons and sang "We're Going to the Circus.". Genevieve and I pretended to be popcorn popping.  We held a dice race with our set of different gaming dice, guessing which would move the most spaces each turn.  She decorated the window for summer as well.

Genevieve loves the Miss Bindergarten and Miss Fox books, so we read Miss Bindergarten Plans a Circus with Kindergarten, which follows the alphabet and reviews colors, and Miss Fox's Class Earns a Field Trip, which deals with math.  I enjoyed Lloyd Moss's Zin Zin Zin a Violin, so we tried another of his books about instruments, Our Marching Band.  Genevieve found an interesting book about Alexander Calder and his sculptures, Sandy's Circus.