My kindergartner is really getting into these builder blocks from Honey! He did a helicopter today. And he still asks for help, but today I told him firmly “No, you be creative and show me when you are done”. And check it out! A helicopter! Nice job buddy! He’s working…
Here is our Letter B week in action! (Lest you think I’m a complete maniac, please note that this is 2.5 days worth of stuff…I typically do approx 6 boxes for my preschooler, she tends to lose interest after that. The large floor numbers are a huge hit, it gets…
My 2nd grader needs a little refresher on place value, so I made this “game” for practice. She randomly picks 3 cards and places them on the Hundreds, Tens, and Units squares. Then builds the numbers with her MUS blocks, then says the number. I’m hoping just the repetition will…
Since it was so nice today, we did a Leaf Art project. I got the idea from The Girlies Of Mt Hope. The kids had a blast collecting leaves, then making their creations. Here are our finished products:A Leaf monster with lots of eyes, the numbers are how much he…
Here he is working on his dry erase numbers booklet. You can download a copy of my butterfly numbers writing practice here. And practicing blends is a great way to improve reading skills. He’s doing just the one’s he’s learned thus far. You can download a copy of my blend…
We’d planned on going to the pumpkin patch for our Letter P week, unfortunately weather (snow) made this impossible, so we finally went this weekend. Actually its a whole harvest festival thing and we were so tired by the time we got done that we didn’t even get pumpkins! LOL!…
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I found a great idea on The Snail’s Tail. She really does a good job of explaining it on her site, but I’ll try to do it here too. The idea is to practice the consonants, blends, digraphs and common word families. I have to admit I was a tad…
We did our Very Hungry Caterpillar Game and book today. It was a huge hit. As I read the story she laced her pieces on. My 2nd grader filled out the graph just for fun and helped her sister find the correct pieces. You can download the Hungry Caterpillar lacing…
We did a color mixing project today. I got the idea from The Pioneer Woman’s homeschooling blog. I provided them with Blue, Red and Yellow water, and then gave them ‘recipe’ cards to work from. Just because I don’t trust my kids with that large a quantity of water, I…
