Enjoying the break in the HEAT...and learning too!

It's Friday and we have had some out of the norm errands to run so school has had to wait. As soon as we got home it was hard to think about heading inside when it was a nice 72 degrees outside and only party sunny. God has blessed us with this beautiful day...why not use it?! Immediately I thought of sidewalk chalk and phonics!

I parked at the end of our driveway, ran our errand "stuff" inside, told all 3 kids to keep those shoes on and we ran back out. I located the sidewalk and we began!

We wrote letters based on phonetic sounds, practiced our cursive letters and we played a new game...
hopping words!

I wrote several CVC words on the driveway and in order for them to cross the "bridge" or whatever else they wanted the word to be, they had to sound it out! So CAT went like this: Hop on C and say the "hard C" sound, hop to A and say "short A" sound, hop to T and say "T" sound. When they jump off the last letter they put the whole word together!

I think we all had a lot of fun and after we all drew and colored rocks, investigated the trees ect. What a great way to start our school day!