'S' for Swan

One of the letters we covered this week was 'S'. I chose Grimm's beautiful tale, 'The Six Swans'. Our Sol was moved by this fairytale. In our container story, Swans glided down onto a pond (letter 'P') our travellers were resting near and flew them along to the sea for the next part of their quest.

I was inspired by Donna Simmons' suggestion in her material to introduce the vowels as heart sounds, 'A' being wonder. Our travellers experienced wonder at their encounter with the swans and also on hearing 'The Six Swans' tale. We took a trip to the waterside to wonder over the swans that live there and we certainly each felt wonder at their majestic beauty and grace. Sol decided to collect six shed swan feathers along the water's edge.

Nesting swan!

Look at this beautiful swan's nest in our local park!  There are seven eggs in the nest.