Tot School: Cc

Kayleigh is 3.75 years old

This week we our focus has been the letter C. I have to say that her memory verse this week was fabulous, Colossians 3:20.  Woot!

Raising Rock Stars

As I already mentioned, our verse this week was Colossians 3:20 “Children obey your parents in all things for this is well pleasing to the Lord.”  Very timely because behaviors and attitudes in both of the girls have not been well pleasing in either of the girls as of late. I love it when God works things out so nicely.  And I enjoy hearing my older daughter groan when she hears the new verse and mumble, “He always does know what’s going on doesn’t He?”  Yes my dear he always does.  lol

Kayleigh worked hard on coloring her verse, two fisted no less, “reading” her vocabulary cards, learning to write C, and cutting out her verse. Once again, the verse was of satisfactory length.  We’re still working on memorizing this one.  She seems to be stumbling over” well pleasing.”  Part of me thinks that she just doesn’t like what it implies. LOL

All About Reading

All About Reading continues to go well.  Kayleigh really likes it and is doing a great job.  So far there hasn’t been anything terribly challenging so I’m considering spending up the lessons a bit.  I haven’t really make up my mind though.  I hate to ruin the good groove that we’re in.  Decisions, decisions.

This week we played a fun rhyming game called “Out of the Wagon.”  I’d put in three picture cards, two of which rhymed, onto our wagon picture.  Kayleigh would decide which two rhymed and then tell the other one to “get out of the wagon!” Zecora the Zebra would help her push the oddball out.  She wanted to use our Handwriting Without Tears pieces again for her tactile activity but no pictures.  Her craft was finger painting the C to look like a cookie and then glue on little “chocolate chips.”  Yum!  Then we ate some real ones.  By we I mean her because they’re not on my diet.

Sonlight

We’ve been reading a lot of fairy tales this week.  Kayleigh was cracking up over The Emperor’s New Clothes.  I never realized how much I dislike Jack and the Beanstalk until I was reading it to Kayleigh this week. He disobeyed his mom, snuck out of the house, and stole.  I don’t like him.

Other Learning Fun

We also did some other learning activities using ideas from 1+1+1=1, Confessions of a Homeschooler, PreKinders, and stuff from our stash.

We have a new app on the iPad that she really likes called Dots-for-Tots. I like it because I’m working on counting objects with her, she likes to count at her own pace regardless of the number of objects, and this has been helping with that.  It’s kind of like a dot-to-dot and it counts out loud with you.

We did a couple of activities from the ABC Animals.  I was cracking up when she saw the word caterpillar at the bottom of the page.  “That word has too much letters.” Bwaa haa haa!  And apparently she thinks caterpillars are creepy.  She decided to call the ones on her craft pickles because “I wike pickles.”  As long as you know that pickle doesn’t start with C.

I pulled out some of our Letter of the Week activities from COAH.  I love that I have these already cut, laminated, and ready to go.  We did some color matching, sorting by size, and lacing.  She’s still very into lacing.

We practiced counting by “feeding the cat”, made a caterpillar out of pattern blocks, and worked on our colors and color words using three-part cards.  All of these activities came from PreKinders.

We worked on shapes and ordering by size with some of the activities from the Hungry Caterpillar pack that we did last year.  I believe it’s been updated recently but I haven’t checked that out yet. 

From our stash we did a C alphabet maze, patterned with our Learning Links, and worked in our Kumon Number book.

And that was our very busy week.  This is the third week in a row that we’ve managed to check off everything on our list.  I think we might be on a roll.  Click on the buttons at the top of the page to see what other tots have been up too.

Tot School: Bb

This week we have moved on to the letter B.  We did a lot of B activities using Raising Rock Stars, All About Reading pre-1, and  various activities from Tot School Printables, Animal ABCs, COAH’s Letter of the Week. 

Raising Rock Stars

Our verse this week was Matthew 5:9, Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be sons of God.   She did finally memorize it but it took some doing.  For whatever reason, she did NOT like the world peacemakers.  I have no clue what that was about. LOL  Here’s a peek at some of our other activities.

 

Rapuzel was helping out with school one day.  She was so busy helping that she didn’t bother to brush her hair.
Kayleigh was so pleased with the length of the verse this week that she made me hang it up on the wall so she could admire it without having to hold it up.  
Our song this week was The B-I-B-L-E and Kayleigh insisted on dancing with one of her bibles everyday. lol

All About Reading

This week we played some rhyming games with Zecora, formerly known as Ziggy.  I was pleased with how well she did with this.  We hadn’t really worked on rhyming before so I guess all the Dr. Suess reading has paid off.

For our letter craft we dot painted blueberries onto the B and added some nice grass along the bottom.  Kayleigh liked the painting and the gluing but wasn’t really interested in posing with the finished product.

 

For our tactile B activity, I deviated from the AAR list and got out our wooden letter pieces from Handwriting Without Tears.  She LOVED this and spent another 30 minutes just building with them.

Sonlight

AAR recommends 20 minutes of reading aloud each day and that is a perfect fit with our love of Sonlight.   Our readings for this week came from Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales, 20th Century Children’s Book Treasury, Richard Scary’s What do People do All Day, and the Family Time Bible.  Naturally, Kayleigh is never satisfied with what is scheduled for reading.  We scoff at 20 minutes. lol 

Other Fun Stuff

Kayleigh happened to be sitting near me one day while I was doing some blog reading.  I happened to be over at 1+1+1=1 and she noticed that Ladybug was doing “Zecora School” like her.  Then she noticed that Ladybug was doing a cool alligator A.  And where was her alligator A?  So now we’ve added in some of Carisa’s Animal ABCs.  Very cute!  And Kayleigh also enjoyed a lot of the extra printables too.
Backtracking a bit and doing the alligator craft.

 

Which lead to her painting her nails.  Literally.  With paint.  Please note that she DOES NOT like her nails painted with nail polish.  It freaks her out for whatever reason.  Like the word “peacemakers.”




We worked on our Brainy Baby puzzles and a jigsaw that she got for Christmas.  The jigsaw pieces were a bit tight so she hammered them in.

 

Dot painting Bb

She’s working on writing her name and she had a BLAST with the color page from ABC Animals.  Instead of coloring all of the bears she decided to give them makeovers using the correct colors.  She spent days on that.

 

Traced some shapes.

Played My Little Pony.

We played a fun butterfly counting game from COAH.

Kumon dot-to-dots and sewing.  She requested the lacing so I had to print one out real quick. 

 

She hunted for Bs in a little butterfly poem and worked on her ABC Animal B.  She spent a great deal of time lining up dot paint bottles instead of actually painting.

 

And we got back into our Artistic Pursuit lessons.  This week she had to draw one of her favorite things.  She chose her new Belle baby doll.  Her drawings crack me up.  And she got as much marker on her nose as on her paper.  Smelly markers are so tempting. lol

And that was our week.  We actually accomplished everything that I set out to do.  A miracle.
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