We are finishing our letter L week today. I’ve decided to repeat activities teaching them to her one day then letting her do them on her own the next. I think this has helped her remember things a bit better. Today she has our letter L magnet page, downloaded from…
I ran across this awesome Art idea blog in my Yahoo Workboxes group! It’s definitely worth taking a look at Deep Space Sparkle! Here is a sample photo from today’s lesson in leaf stamping and painting:
Our canoe making, I cut and punched holes in the construction paper, then the kids decorated and laced the canoes. They are currently playing with them with our counting bears as passengers…the 3 year old wants to know where her wigwam and tepees are…um, hmmm…where did I put those?…(Ok, fine,…
We start off with math, and then counting (That’s his don’t take a picture face, he doesn’t like the ‘in progress’ pictures, only when he’s completed with a project do I have permission to take a picture, anything you see of him in progess was taken by me being sneaky,…
A fun poster center for my 3 year old…up until now, I’ve been so-so on the poster center idea, the monotonous matching seemed pointless, but for the prek years, I think the matching is good. She said the letter and sound if she knew it for each letter as she…
I am making a shift towards Abeka for my 2nd grader, the curriculum arrived today and looks promising! I’m still trying to figure out how to include the fun stuff from MFW into it so we’ll see how this year pans out! We’ll start our new stuff either next week…
Welcome to our first inmate in “Word Jail”. He’s in jail because he’s failed to follow the phonetic rules and thus must be learned as a ‘sight word’. You can expect to see many more additions to our word jail as the year goes…
Here’s a fun game called Logic Links Puzzle Box, it comes with 166 different puzzle cards that get harder as you go, with little colored disks. You have to read the clues on the cards to figure out how to place the colored disks on the cards. They are fun…
I found these fun cards on Spell Out Loud today. They are fun Physical Activity cards for boxes. I think my kids will LOVE these so keep an eye out for them in our boxes! I left 2 of them in strips because the items went together and seemed like…
We did a lesson in contrast today from the book How To Teach Art To Children, they learned what contrast means (the degree of difference between colors or tones in a piece of art), and made a grid to show high contrast color combinations. I really like this book, they…
