X is for "X marks the spot" and Y is for Yolk

I bet you have been wondering what we were going to do for the letter X, right? I have a pet peeve that most books and alphabet games say that "x is for xylophone". That word doesn't sound like X at all! Confusing to young learners. So we talked about lots of words that have the x sound at the end (fox, box, ox, ax) so they could really hear the sound, and then made pirates with big X's on their chests. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Here is the writer's class down in Angela's new basement schoolroom. This picture doesn't do the room justice, it is really, really nice!! They are putting in a bathroom down there too, so there were construction items sitting around and a few of them you can see in this pic. Such a beautiful new room for learning, and lots of storage!



Up at the kitchen table, the young 5's worked on their pirates. This was quite popular with the boys!



Here is a finished pirate with yarn hair and a big X on his chest.

Next we boiled some eggs and then opened them up to see the yolks.




From the yolks we made deviled eggs, and most of the children really liked them! (the moms did too!)

I can't believe we are at the end of the alphabet and only have one more letter to learn about! Z will be really fun, as we are learning about the ZOO!!