J is for jaguars and the jungle and jello -- but most of all, if you ask the boys, J is for jellybeans! We started our J week with estimating jellybeans in a jar.
The boys watched a Sid the Science Kid episode about estimation and of course they had to do their own estimation investigation with jellybeans! Will was a pretty decent estimator, but Henry just guessed 6 every time!
Will recorded everything very carefully in his science journal. The top number in his journal was his estimate and bottom number is the actual number of jellybeans in the jar. 
We also read Jellybeans for Sale by Bruce McMillan which is about counting and money. And of course we couldn't have all these jellybeans around without trying a few. I found a cute song online that counts down from 5 jellybeans so as we sang the verses, they ate the right color jellybean. Eating the jellybeans was definitely their favorite part!
We drew jellybeans on our capital J. 
And turned the lowercase j into a cute jaguar. 
We checked out a nonfiction book about jaguars and we read Rumble in the Jungle by Giles Andreae and Amazon Alphabet by Martin Jordan. The boys' favorite song was "Jungle Song" by Joe McDermott. And turned the lowercase j into a cute jaguar. 
We made some Jello too. Yum!
And we had another sweet week investigating the letter J!
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