Rainbows and Umbrellas

To continue with the rain part of our theme this week, we talked more about umbrellas today and the kids drew and/or colored umbrellas.  Then we talked about how when the sun comes out after the rain we can sometimes see a rainbow.  They are really good at their colors of the rainbow (thanks to The Cat in the Hat's rainbow song!), so we drew rainbows and Rachel and Ford were able to color their own in the correct order.  Rachel even found an Indigo in the crayon box so that hers was "perfect".  There hasn't been much rain since we put that rain gauge out yesterday, but we're still hoping for a thunderstorm later this afternoon so that the rain will fill it up.  Otherwise, I just need the rain to stay away and let everything dry up so we can get outside!!  Ford and Rachel both wrote umbrella and rainbow on their papers to practice some writing.  Then Rachel also wrote solve and answer to prepare for her math lesson, as well as today's date.  We started a new math lesson today about solving for the unknown.  When we did this lesson in the Primer, I was shocked how quickly she got it, but today she had a little more trouble.  May have had something to do with "Jake" and "Tinkerbell" running around the house like crazy people, I mean fairies!!  We went to story time today and enjoyed talking about butterflies, dancing like butterflies, and making butterflies.  We're still looking for caterpillars outside so we can watch one turn into a butterfly, so it was cool that we talked about that today.  We tried something new for lunch today:  Personal Pizzas!  We cut English Muffins in half, put some tomato sauce on, sprinkled cheese, added pepperoni to the top, and baked at 400 for 20 minutes.  They loved them!!!  Ford said, "We should have these every day!"  It was a nice change from peanut butter for sure :)