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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Tot School: A Whole Lotta J

We've been in relaxed mode the last couple weeks so we took two weeks to complete our J unit. The weather's been nice, what could we do? It's great to have options.

We've been working on the letter J this week. Our verse was John 14:6. She liked the verse, especially the song we sang to go along with it, but she was not thrilled with it's length when she taped it together. The craft was a big hit. She loved that it was a door that she could open. It received a place of honor on our closet door.

All About Reading

We were working on J, of course. We did some rhyming, which she's getting really good at, made a jack rabbit craft, and used the gel pad (from our Grasshopper Prep kit) for our tactile activity. The gel pad didn't work quite like I thought it would. I thought you'd be able to see the letter once you traced it in the get but it didn't work out like that. Bummer!!! A ziplock with paint or gel in it would probably work better. She didn't mind too much because she practiced tracing A-K. She had to do K because it's the most important letter, the one her names starts with. She never leaves out K. lol

You Can Read

We started the second unit in YCR, with four new words. During our first week working with them I wasn't sure she was going to get them. But she has them down this week. She built the words, did a word hunt, played "roll & slap", spelled them with stampers, and made some sight word puzzles.

Other Stuff

We did some math activities. We made some pictures using our Scholastic Magnetic Pattern Block book. We also played a Missing Number game that I saw on Pinterest. Sadly, it didn't include printables so I had to make my own. You can download them HERE for your tot.

We worked on counting and fine motor skills with the little frog guy from our Grasshopper Prep Kit. We rolled the die and the frog ate that many bugs.

Her Kumon cutting book is starting to challenge her more. This week she had to cut on a spiral. She was really concentrating. LOL

And, of course, we did some Easter activities. We read tons of Easter books, made some crafts, played some games, and watched all of our Easter movies.

We read The Parable of the Lily and then made pink and purple "lilies" with empty soda bottles. Then we splatter painted a cross using paint inside plastic eggs. Both were adapted from pinterest finds.

From COAH a "He is Risen" magnet page and J is for jellybean sorting.

We also did our resurrection eggs but I didn't get any pictures because I was too involved. We also had fun dying eggs and enjoying Easter day but those will be for another day because the pictures are still on my camera.

I hope you and yours had a blessed Easter.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Tot School: Two-For-One

Kayleigh is…gasp…FOUR!

It’s a busy time at our house in February. Double birthdays. Both my little monster disobeyed my orders and got a year older. Can you believe it? At any rate. All this birthday fun has gotten in the way of my blogging so this week you get two weeks for the price of one. Well, sort of, it actually took us 2 weeks to complete one week’s worth of lessons. Birthday errands and field trips cutting into our regular schedule.

Raising Rock Stars

We have been working on the letter E with this unit. Our verse was “Even a child is known by his deeds.” Interestingly enough, this verse seemed to speak to Kayleigh. On at least 4 occasions she went out of her way to be extra helpful. Cool! Although, as you can tell by the picture, she found the length of the verse offensive. lol

All About Reading

Along with E, we worked more on rhyming. She is getting better at it with each activity. For our craft we colored the elephant picture and made peanuts for him using her finger prints. So simple yet so cute! For our tactile letter experience, she made E on the geo-board. She liked it so much that she made A-C too.

Sonlight

We’ve finished up with fairy tales for the moment and have moved onto some science with the Flip-flop Body Book. I thought she’d be upset with that, seeing as she’s a princess-loving girly girl, but I was wrong. She is so into that book. She especially enjoys rereading that page that shows where the food travels once it enters your mouth. We have read those pages at least 20 times of the last couple of weeks. lol

Other Stuff

In other news we have continued to use resources from 1+1+1=1’s ABC Animals, activities from our Letter of the Week stash from COAH, and we started a fun Valentine pre-k pack from Over the Big Moon along with a few other sources.

We played Elephant ABC bingo using our LOTW inserts for our Education Cubes and a printable from PreKinders. She did a wonderful job on a color-by-number page. Surprising since she usually balks at coloring.

She worked in several of her Kumon books. She loves them.

Some of our LOTW activities and a number sorting card game that I picked up in the Target dollar spot a while back.

ABC Animals tracing and craft. She was singing her heart out while she was painting the letter sheet. lol

She used the shape builders that came with our Grasshopper Prep Kit. That was a lot of fun. She couldn’t believe that she “built” a scooter. lol

She was supposed to dot paint and elephant but wanted to color it instead. Weird! Then she dot painted E’s (ABC Twiggles) and then we counted shapes on an elephant.(Making Learning Fun.) She stamped the answers with number stamps.

Now for our Valentine fun. I’ll start with her favorite thing. Heart Measuring. I first saw this idea on a pinterest but there was no printables with it. Wahh! So I made my own. And I decided to use something other than cubes for measuring. I went with candy hearts! She lives for “candy heart school.” You can download the printables by clicking on the picture below. It includes the answer sheet and heart shapes for measuring. Although the shapes pictured are just ones that I cut out of colored paper to save on printer in.

Both of my girls loved this activity. Probably because they got to eat the manipulatives. Since Kayleigh doesn’t write very well yet. I just let her stamp the answers using number stamps.