The Letter I

After a long break for the holidays and our move, the boys and I are back to our letter of the week activities. Last week, we were on the letter I, so we focused on ice cream, insects, and islands. We started off our week with a trip to the science museum. The boys always get a kick out of sitting on this huge caterpillar in the butterfly center.

There is a large mural on the walls going up the stairs in the butterfly center. The boys were pretending they were insects caught in this huge spider's web. Creepy!!

Henry was fascinated by the grasshoppers.

At home we read our favorite insect books, The Bugliest Bug by Carol Diggory Shields and Bug Safari by Bob Barner, and watched A Bug's Life. Next, we moved on to islands. Will is fascinated by volcanoes, so he loved reading all about islands in An Island Grows by Lola Schaefer.

We made a capital I into an island for our letter craft. Everyone loves ice cream, so we had a very ice-cream-heavy week. We read Ice Cream: The Full Scoop by Gail Gibbons, which discusses how ice cream is made, and then we met Gene for lunch at Berryhill on Wednesday and the boys got free ice cream cones. It was a pretty chilly day for ice cream, but they didn't mind at all!

At home, we made ice cream cone crafts. They are supposed to the lowercase i. The boys had so much fun decorating them with "sprinkles."

We planned on making homemade ice cream and even bought all the ingredients, but we ran out of time. Nana and Pop took us to Ben and Jerry's Sunday afternoon for ice cream, so we did end our week on a sweet ice cream note after all!

And our last craft of the week was to make igloos out of marshmallows and icing. The boys thought this was the best craft project ever because they could sneak tastes of marshmallows and icing!

Ice cream, marshmallow igloos, and icing... what a sweet I week!