Tot School: Raising Rock Stars Ii

Kayleigh is 44 months old

Last week Kayleigh wasn’t in a mood for school so I had nothing to report.  This week we moved on to our next Raising Rock Star unit: I.  We didn’t finish the unit this week but that’s not much of a surprise because it’s been taking us two weeks for all of the units so far. 
Our memory verse was Philippians 4: 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.  She pretty much has it down but getting her to say for me is always a challenge.  Kayleigh only does what she wants to do when she wants to do it. Story of my life.  Sigh…
She colored her verse.

Cut and taped her verse together.  At first she was a little disappointed by the length but then she was feeling silly so we have a happy picture. lol
 
She cut out her vocabulary cards. 

A little pre-writing to get her ready to write I.

She did some inchworm counting from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

Sorting big and little Ii, also from COAH.

Dot painting an ice cream cone.  I’m pretty sure this was from COAH too but it might have been from Making Learning Fun.   The inchworm magnet page was from COAH.


Kayleigh is helping me with an upcoming review so she’s been doing some extra art projects.  Watch for the review for more details.

We had foam blocks, Thanksgiving Little People, and Stacking Pegs in our star boxes.  I have a feeling the Little People will not be leaving the star boxes anytime soon. LOL


Our game for this week was Sequence for Kids.  A wonderful friend gave it to us and it was a big hit.

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Tot School: Pumpkins

Kayleigh is 44 months old

This week our theme was pumpkins!!!  We love them.  Especially eating them.  We started our week with a trip to the local farm to get some pumpkins.

For the rest of the week we did a lot of pumpkin activities from Two Teaching Mommies and Confessions of a Homeschooler. 

While waiting for sissy at music school, Kenzie made faces on the pumpkins.  I just made that out of felt.

Instead of magnets or do-a-dots, we decided to use stickers on this page.

She made a “Pumpkin Colors” book and colored each page the correct color.  And she stayed in the lines for the most part.   She also did acColor-by-letter:  This time she mostly wanted to scribble all over the page.  Sigh…

A pumpkin patch number “maze.”

A pumpkin jumble game that I found HERE.  We used pattern blocks and our Education Cubes to play.

Pumpkin “spelling”: She named all the letter for me, although she refused to do it order. lol

Which one is different?  She did awesome on this and didn’t even ask for help.

Pumpkin Vine Measuring.  This was the first time we’ve done anything like this.  She did a really good job and seemed to like it.  At least until the next time we try to do it. lol

She did a pumpkin number puzzle and practiced her writing skills by following the line.

 

Her favorite activity, which she’s been waiting for a whole year too do again, was…

Candy Corn Math!!  We sorted, patterned, graphed and tasted. 

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In her Star Boxes…

Peg Stacker

Ice Cream Shoppe Play Doh

3D Feel and Find, We took it to music school with us this week.

Latches Board

We’re going to continue on with more pumpkin fun next week. We had so much going on last week that we didn’t get to the fun stuff involving actual pumpkins and crafts.  It was all we could do to get this much done.   I hope to stay home more next week.

Tot School: Ballerinas

Kayleigh is 44 months old

Lately we’ve been “working” on a ballerina unit.  Kayleigh’s been a bit disinterested in school lately so we didn’t do as much as I had planned. 

Our ballerina activities came from 1+1+1=1 and Confessions of a Homeschooler.

   

This cute little ballerina puzzle also gave us some counting practice.

We did some more counting with the spin and graph activity.  She always loves the graphing because we use stickers. 

 

She did some pre-writing exercises.  Some days she does really well and others she just draws a line wherever she wants. 

 

 

We worked those scissors skills.  She did a great job on the first line but had a much harder time with the more complicated ones. 

 

These transportation puzzles have nothing to do with ballerinas but she did them every day.

 

She matched “mommy and baby” letters.  And she did it all

on her own and named the letters.  She can be very tight-lipped about what she knows so it was awesome to get a clue about what she knows. lol

 

She dotted painted “mommy and baby” Bbs as I called them out.

 

Ballerina “spelling”.  She hasn’t done this in quite a while so she did it over and over. 

She colored a ballerina and attempted to stay within the lines.  At least at first. lol

We finally finished our Raising Rock Stars H craft.  Honor your father and mother.  I think she captured our likeness quite well.  Except that I’d never be caught dead in a dress.  =o) Plus I have more hair.  A lot more.

 

She drew this adorable picture of her daddy.  She’s really been missing him, as he’s in Germany.  Lucky guy!

We read her favorite book every day.  Especially the creation story.  It has a picture of a snake.

We also read a ton of Angelina Ballerina books and watched a few videos.  When Mackenzie was little she loved Angelina so we own tons.  And I also found some Angelina Ballerina apps for the iPad.  She really loved those.

We also took a fun field trip to the local children’s museum.  Here’s some of her favorite parts.

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