tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69092771022379561452024-02-19T05:28:27.901-05:00The Loving Learner- On Teaching and Being a MomAmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078297489286784080noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6909277102237956145.post-59986728941061461302013-11-04T13:36:00.002-05:002013-11-04T13:36:29.355-05:00Pumpkins! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><b> Last week, there was a lot excitement about the upcoming Halloween festivities (which for us means costumes, trick or treating on our street, and helping to pass out candy). Instead of sticking with our Growing Up Wild curriculum for the week, I decided to spend a week on pumpkins and a few Halloween related activities. It was a fun week! Here is what we accomplished.</b></span> </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We did a variety of activities with a pumpkin we actually planted and grew ourselves! (Literally this was the only thing we planted that made it!) The kids had to find the circumference of the pumpkin using linking shapes. They each made and recorded their predictions first. Our pumpkin was 32 links. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They measured the height of the pumpkin using blocks. The pumpkin was 15 blocks high. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is where we recorded our predictions and actually findings. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">In her journal, Ava had to draw a picture of the pumpkin and describe it. She made a neat observation. She said, "Hey mommy, the lines on the pumpkin remind me of the segments of a worm!". </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The activity all the kids had been waiting for since they helped Daddy pick the pumpkin out of the garden was the carving! Lilly wasn't so impressed with the way it felt, but the other two had fun separating the "guts" from the seeds. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava was in charge of the face design this year. I don't have a picture, but in her journal she needed to draw different ideas. It was cute because she showed her ideas to Dominic and then showed me the idea that they both agreed on. The picture above shows the winning design. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The kids really wanted to eat the seeds, so we roasted all the seeds they had collected. They were really good! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In math Ava continued practicing counting and writing numbers through 30. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava was also introduced to adding and subtracting this week! She was so excited. She loves writing the number sentences and finding the answers. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All four of our children dressed up as a character from the Wizard of Oz. When we were at the craft store earlier in the week, we found this neat felt board kit with all the characters for only $4.99. It was a fun center choice for the week! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We also sang some Halloween related songs and brought back out the classic 5 Little Pumpkins felt board activity. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We read a non-fiction story on the life cycle of a pumpkin and created the mini book <u>Pumpkin, Pumpkin What do you See. </u><br />I found the mini book on Teachers Pay Teacher. I can't find the link to the blog. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We had chocolate scented play dough in the sensory table along with Halloween cookie cutters, bats, bugs, and spiders. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In addition to our daily reading lessons, we also played several rounds of pumpkin patch sight word memory. I just wrote sight words on the back of pumpkins to create this game. It was a fun way for Ava to practice! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally on Halloween afternoon, we took some time to make some pumpkin chocolate chip muffins! They were a hit! </td></tr>
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<br />Ava has been waiting for November for months. She has been very interested in learning more about Native American culture and more about the pilgrims. Though we have found and read lots of books on the topic, I promised that we would dedicate our school time in November to this theme. Here we are in November! This week we are having a slight set back with school time. Or maybe I should say, this week is when we get to experience the more flexible schedule of home schooling. Our youngest foster son has been in the hospital since Saturday. Right now his health is a priority and one of us is with him 24/7. The other kids get to have a fun spontaneous play date with good friends and visit with Grandma and Grandpa for a couple nights. When our house is back and running, (hopefully in the next couple of days!!) we will dive into learning more about the Native Americans and the pilgrims.<br /><br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078297489286784080noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6909277102237956145.post-60772508866325984852013-10-22T11:41:00.000-04:002013-10-22T11:41:15.563-04:00Wiggly Worms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This week we took a look at the ever popular topic in this house....WORMS! We did W is for worms last year. I was able to use some of the same activities. But, this year Ava could do them more independently and Dominic and Lilly were more interested in participating. Our curriculum offered a neat activity on dissecting a gummy worm and we enjoyed many worm related books and stories. One thing I am finding with home schooling while raising 4 little ones is that its a little harder to grab the camera when activities are occurring. I usually have a baby on one hip or am trying to keep another from getting into something they shouldn't. But here are a few pictures of our week! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thanks to Papa and Mimi the kids now have a worm compost right in our school room! We were able to dig a few worms our of the bin for some worm observation. We looked at how to identify the head and segments. We described how the worms moved and looked. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This next activity (that came from our curriculum) was a hit. After looking at a real worm, we did some work with a gummy worm. Ava had to draw the worm, measure it as is, measure it stretched as far as it could be stretched, count it's segments, and compare and contrast this worm to a real one. She also had to taste and describe the different colors of the worm. That was probably her favorite part! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In her journal, Ava, completed a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting the gummy worm and earthworm. Prior to the activity, I created the different phrases. She had to sort and glue them in the appropriate place on the diagram. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava did some measuring work. This was an activity we did last year too. She had different types of yarn, beads, and other material all cut in different lengths. We called them worms. She had different pictures of animals. Her job was to find which worms measured the same as animals. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We, of course, had to make a worm snack! This year we just used yogurt and sprinkled the Oreo cookies over the top to give it the dirt affect. Easier than making dairy free pudding since Dominic is allergic to milk, and much healthier! They loved it just the same! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava had lots of fun practicing writing her numbers in the window with Crayola window crayons. This is an activity I plan to do for practicing sight words too!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We spent some time reviewing fact and fiction. I wrote down all sorts of things that were true and false about our family on sticky labels. Some of the labels said things like, "Ava is taller than Daddy.", "Dominic likes to be called Big Buddy", "Lilly's eyes are purple", etc... We read each one and sorted them as fact or fiction.<br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We then practiced our skills at finding fact and fiction by reading, <u>The Diary of a Worm</u>. We read it two times. The first time we read it for enjoyment. The second time we went page by page finding information that was true about worms, and things that were made up just for the story. We recorded our findings. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava is loving any time we spend doing our reading lessons in our reading program or time practicing sight words. This week we didn't have time to work with sight words as much as I would have hoped. But she did do this activity. I color coded different words. We practiced reading them. Then, she had to stamp each word with the correct color. </td></tr>
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Okay I am going to keep this post honest (not that I am not honest in the others). Maybe a better term would be keep it real. This school week was one that was all planned out one way and really just didn't go the way I had planned. First I have an almost two year old and almost three year old. For those who have gone through the twos and threes I don't need to explain anymore. Sometimes they are super cooperative. And, well, sometime they are just not! This week...not so much. Second our youngest has a lot of medical needs. He has been with us for just two months and we have already had 35 appointments for him. This week alone we had 5. Thank goodness we home school. Otherwise Ava would be late or miss preschool all the time just trying to fit our little guys schedule around hers! We had to fit school time in at odd times this week. It started on Sunday afternoon, happened throughout the week, and we finally finished the weeks plans Friday night! So glad its a new week and we get to give it another go!</div>
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This week we took a look at leaves and explored why they change colors and fall off the trees each fall. In our math series, Ava, is continuing to practice numeral recognition and working hard on mastering writing her numbers. In reading she has really taken off. She tries to read anything and everything put in front of her! Her reading lessons are really clicking and she is currently having fun reading her way through the first Bob Book series as well as the classic Sally, Dick, and Jane books.</div>
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Here is a glimpse at our not so smooth home schooling week! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava and Dominic took some time to observe the colors of fall right in our front year. They then had to paint what they saw. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daddy took the kids on a leaf hunt. Ava was very excited to share all the beautiful leaves she found. We examined them closely and discovered that leaves have veins and teeth (that function differently than us of course!) We read some great non-fiction books that helped to explain why the leaves change colors and fall of the tree each year.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In her journal, Ava reflected on how she used her senses as she hunted for leaves. She illustrated her thoughts and dictated what to write. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the center activities was to count dots on a leaf and place the leaf in the correctly labeled section of the tray. Ava worked on numbers 9-13 this week. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dominic worked on strengthening his fine motor skills with a beading activity.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another art activity we worked on was a hand print fall tree. I helped the kids create the trunk and branches of the tree by painting their hand and arm and pressing it on the paper. They used a sponge and brush to create the leaves. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava worked on making a collage with some of the leaves she found. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another center activity was working with opposite cards. </td></tr>
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Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078297489286784080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6909277102237956145.post-79320940701974924692013-09-28T16:09:00.002-04:002013-09-28T16:09:53.680-04:00Hopping Around Like Grasshoppers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week we studied grasshoppers. Honestly, I wasn't all that excited about this topic. I can't say we have ever seen a grasshopper near our house. But, then learning it not just about what we see all the time so I decided that we would stick with the grasshopper theme. I think we all learned something new this week! Here is a glimpse at our week! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is where we start each school day. We begin with the calendar and weather. We have an ongoing pattern that we work on each day ( I switch it up every week or two), we practice our weekly site word, keep track of the days we have school using straws, and have our music and story time here too. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava likes to look at books as she falls asleep. She came down in the morning with this great big insect book. She was super excited to tell me she had something to show the class. (Which made me laugh because the "class" consists of just us.) But I went with it and let her have her show and tell moment to open up our grasshopper theme. We read several other grasshopper related stories throughout the week (both fiction and non fiction). </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We explored how grasshoppers move through music and movement. They loved doing this! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of this weeks centers for Dominic was sorting bugs by color (the bug collection included grasshoppers). </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava used the same bugs to complete different types of patterns. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is a pattern she created all by herself without any help. I was excited to see how complex the pattern was. Last year her own patterns would have been simple AB patterns. Amazing what a year will do!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Okay this is not grasshopper related, but its something I told myself I wouldn't stress about this year. Last year I would have stressed to create a number review activity to fit out theme. This year I am content with not recreating the wheel. The Melissa and Doug number puzzle accomplishes the same thing! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This weeks sight word was can. Here is one of her sight word works. She used gems to build the letters in the word.<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Dominic wanted to give this work a try too!<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava practiced her sight word in her journal as well. She needed to illustrate a picture of a grasshopper and write what grasshoppers can do. She wrote, "Grasshoppers can jump." </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She reviewed all the sight words so far by using dry erase markers to copy the words. Using these markers is something she loves to do. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava created an "I Can" book by stamping the word can on each page to complete a sentence. For example, the first page read, " I ________ run." Ava filled in the blank by stamping the word can. The other two had fun with the letter stamps while she worked on this activity. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Again, not grasshopper related. One of the art activities this week was the option to paint at the easel. Sometime it is nice not to have a specific project for her to create and let her have all the artistic license.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />On the reading front, Ava is moving right along in our reading program and starting to pick up books on her own and sound out words. It is so much fun to see her so excited about it. She loves to read to anyone who will listen to her! </td></tr>
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Next week we will explore leaves! </div>
Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078297489286784080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6909277102237956145.post-18619363704496264482013-09-22T21:50:00.001-04:002013-09-22T21:55:29.766-04:00The Itsy Bitsy Spider Last week, I briefly mentioned that this year I am using the curriculum Growing Up Wild as my guide and inspiration. Click here to check out the website <a href="http://www.projectwild.org/growingupwild.htm">Growing Up Wild</a>. We are three weeks in and I am loving it. It is simple and packed full of ideas that are right up my kids' alley! I love that even though we live in the city, I can still make this nature based program work for us. It is also very easy to stretch it across the curriculum. I am able to make one lesson last for 3 days. There are 27 lessons.. so there is our year! In addition to this resource, we are using the reading program <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/listing/2690351876454?r=1&cm_mmca2=pla&cm_mmc=GooglePLA-_-Book_15To24-_-Q000000633-_-2690351876454">Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spectrum-Math-Grade-Thomas-Richards/dp/076963690X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379550401&sr=8-1&keywords=spectrum+math+kindergarten">Spectrum Math for Kindergarten</a> for Ava. We work on reading about 20 minutes a day and cover one math concept from Spectrum a day. We will start the letter of the week with Dominic in the spring. I want to wait until he turns three. For now he is participating as his interest and attention allows.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">This week we dove into the world of spiders. Take a look at what was on the agenda for this week! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">We brought our science journals outside and went for a spider web hunt. Ava and Dominic had to draw pictures of all the places they found spider webs. We also searched the basement. Sorry Auntie Carrie, we found a few, but we hope that doesn't scare you from visiting us again soon! We will make sure to clean the ceiling before you come! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here they are observing a spider that was in the web on their play structure.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have music time each day. The curriculum provides great theme related songs to tunes we know! These instruments only come out during school time. This way they are not sick of the instruments before we use them! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here Dominic is practicing his sewing skills and making a spider web.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We made sure to attach spiders to their completed webs! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the sensory table this week, there is rice along with spiders and other creepy crawlies of course! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Ava's sight word work this week was to build the sight word "the" with play dough. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We made marble painting spider webs. Even Lilly is participating in some of the activities this year! Last year she was just learning to walk! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is Ava's finished marble painting spider web. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We reviewed the sight words I, see, and the by creating an <u>I See </u>book. Ava dictated what she saw and illustrated it. She was so excited to be able to read it to Daddy all by herself! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dominic really wanted to help decorate for Halloween. And he wanted to to be scary! So, we made large spiders. While making the spiders we were able to discuss how many body parts a spider has, what the body parts are called, and how many legs spiders have. The three big kids enjoyed this project! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This year Ava is so much more independent. She can do her own cutting and even help get materials ready! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The internet offered us some great resources! We watched close up videos of a spider spinning a web, a spider catching a bee in the web, and a jumping spider (who does not spin a web) catching its prey. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava and I created a web to hang her spider from. On the web, we recorded all the information from the "what we learned" portion of our spider KWL chart. </td></tr>
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<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078297489286784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6909277102237956145.post-46194241934185529482013-09-10T11:11:00.001-04:002013-09-10T11:11:33.124-04:00Back to School!It has been forever, but I am back to blogging! There have been many changes and lots of transitions in our family. First, we found out that we are expecting a new little one at the end of January! Not long after we found out that our youngest daughter's 6 month old brother was also entering the foster care system. Though our lives are already busy with little ones and there is one on the way, we felt that opening our home to this little guy was what we needed to do. It has been challenging and we have busier than I feel we have ever been. However, I strongly feel that the right choice is not always the easy one. He is a beautiful boy with a contagious smile! Now we are a family of six with 4 little ones ages four and under. People often ask us how we do it. Well, we don't do it alone! Kyle and I work as a team, we are strict about schedules, have awesome family and neighbor support. And, as I write, there is a wonderful couple from church who come every Tuesday for three hours to play with the kids so I can catch up on house work and breath!<br />
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We have started back to home schooling! This year Ava is in her second year of preschool. I cherish our home school days. It is time I feel I can leave behind the stress of the dozens of medical appointments we are constantly going to for our new baby boy, forget about the dishes piling up, or the loads of laundry that need to be done. Home school time is our time to be together!<br />
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This year, with the recommendation from a friend, I bought the Growing Up Wild curriculum. It guides our week and is much less stressful than creating all the ideas from scratch or having to scour the web for ideas. It is nature based and so far a hit! We are having school three days a week. Dominic and Lilly participate as their attention span allows. I'll start more of a formal school time with Dominic after he turns 3 in December. I will go more into detail about the different resources we are using this year next time. For now, here are a few pictures from the start of our school year!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am trying to sit with Dominic for one one-on-one activity a day during our school time. Here he is sorting colored fruit. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Each day, Ava has about 20 minutes she must chose an independent center choices. I select a few choices ahead of tine and she is able to pick from there. This is the time I am able to sit with Dominic. Here she is putting the correct number of bugs into the right bug jar. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The curriculum we are using has some great science experiments. This week we are focusing on ants. Here Ava is observing which food the ants are most interested in. I predicted they would be all over the jelly. Ava thought the bread. The bread was with winner! Ava needed to record her findings in her science journal. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prior to starting new topics we will do KWL charts and revisit them throughout the week. Here is the start of our ant chart! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava took a survey that asked people if they preferred either a fish, ladybug, or a cat. She had to call family members and even ask some neighbors. We graphed the results. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The activity bags that a friend and I created last year are perfect for independent work for Dominic this year! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This week in the sensory table is home made moon sand. I included toys for digging and scooping along with plastic animals and bugs. </td></tr>
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Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078297489286784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6909277102237956145.post-25101529342064479812013-05-29T22:14:00.004-04:002013-05-29T22:14:40.085-04:00A Little of This and a Little of That <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Summer has kicked off around here and we are enjoying a variety of activities. Though we don't have our regular school time routine going on right now, Ava has been working on learning to read, Dominic has really taken an interest in coloring and using pencil and paper. He loves to write and erase. Lily wants so badly to keep of with her big brother and sister and hates when they are doing things she just can't do yet. But, she has taken on more of an interest in being read to and can often be found sitting by herself with a book. We have been doing a little of this and a little of that over the last month and look forward to a couple more months of just that! I probably won't blog very consistently until next school year hits, but just thought I would post a few pictures of some of our latest activities. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Papa and Mimi came to visit and Papa helped Ava and Dominic harvest the worm castings from the worm composting bin for the first time since our little worm pets arrived! Ava worked so hard to create her own little labels that say, "Ava's Black Gold" (a term used to describe worm castings). She is excited to give it to family for their flowers. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Despite our poor luck with gardening we are giving it another go this summer. We have three raised beds, one will be a butterfly garden, one is for pumpkins, and one is for squash. If you see pictures of it again, you know it was a success! If you don't well......planting the seeds with the kids was fun! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can't beat enjoying the backyard with a good ole sprinkler on a summer day.</td></tr>
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We have officially made it through the alphabet! It's been a year of lots of pinterest searching, trial and error, late nights of planning and prepping, and a lot of fun learning time with my kiddos. I won't lie not everyday was a smooth home school preschool day. My kids are 3, 2, and 1. And, they all have their 3, 2, and 1 year old moments. Oh and I have my mommy moments too! But, I would do it all over again and will next year! It has been rewarding to have the opportunity to experience all those "ah ha" moments and to be able to learn right along with my kids. </div>
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We are looking forward to a more laid back summer! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Y day was yellow day! After finding all our yellow clothes, the kids went on a yellow hunt. Here they are laying out all the yellow things they found. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We made yarn bowls. This activity idea came from the blog <a href="http://shannonbrown.typepad.com/life_in_general/2011/04/yarn-bowls.html"> Find Joy in the Journey</a>. This activity was easy and only requires a bowl, plastic wrap, yarn, glue, and your willingness to get sticky!<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">Once the bowl was dry, Ava was excited to fill it. She has since gifted it to Daddy for his paperclips at school! Dominic wasn't willing to send his off so we have a paperclip bowl for home too!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">While Ava and I worked on a number puzzle, Dominic practiced cutting yellow paper. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look Mommy I did it! Our long puzzle goes up to 25!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We finished our Y theme with a Y mini book.<br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;"><br />Z</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava and Dominic made a zebra craft. The template came from <a href="http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mzebra.html">DLKs Craft for Kids</a> . We talked about the patterns that can be found on a zebras skin. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And, of course we needed to take a trip to the zoo! Here Ava and her friend are enjoying the Manatees. </td></tr>
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We took a couple weeks off of our official school time. I guess you could call it our spring break! The break was much needed, but I was excited to get back to our more structured learning time. W is the letter we have been waiting to get to! Worms are a big deal at this house. Ava literally has spent hours looking for bugs and worms in the backyard. Dominic is often right beside her. We are excited the weather is warming up and soon backyard bug and worm hunting will resume! Except this year, Ava and Dominic will know a little extra about the worms they find. </div>
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In addition to lots of fun books and practicing writing the letter W, take a look at what we did during worm week. </div>
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<u>Diary of a Worm</u> By: Doreen Cronin </div>
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<u>Marty McGuire Digs Worms</u> By: Kate Messner and Brian Floca (This is a chapter book and such a great read-aloud if you are doing worm composting with kids.)</div>
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<u>The Worm Family</u> By: Tony Johnston </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The sensory activity for the week was "dirt playdough". I used the regular cooked homemade play dough recipe, but I used brown tempera paint to color it and added coffee to give it more of a dirt look. The idea came from a blog, but I can't find exactly which one I found it on! I will come back and add it if I can locate it! I picked up artificial flowers and plastic pots at the Dollar Store. I cut up brown pipe cleaners to act as worms. The kids really got into planting and making homes for their worms. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Our worm composting bin has been a lot of fun. I won't lie, the first night some tried to escape. Worms don't bother me, but worms on my basement floor kind of grossed me out! We got in under control now. The worms are all settled in their new environment. Ava is good at reminding me we have to check on them, feed them, and make sure to give them water. We are already starting to see worm castings (just a fancy word for poop). In the gardening world, worm castings are known as black gold because it is so good for the soil. We are excited for the day we can add some to our garden! It will take a few months to reach that point. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Ava was excited to pull out some of the worms to observe. We talked about how they move, what they feel like, and located different parts of their body. When I was taking this picture, Ava told me she was observing the worm and looking for its bristles. It is always fun to hear her use the vocabulary we read about and talk about! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Along with observing the worms, Ava had to draw a picture of what she saw. She dictated her observations to me and I recorded her thoughts under her picture. She said, " I saw the rings. I observed the worms squirming really fast. They were really lively. They are really cute." </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">I love when the Dollar Store pulls through with materials that make planning easy! This week, I found apple and worm cutouts. Since we have been talking about worms and composting, this was perfect for a math activity I had in mind! I numbered each worm 10-20. On each apple I put dots representing the numbers 10-20. Ava had to count the dots on each apple and find the matching worm. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Here is a simple art activity that we did. Ava had to cut and assemble the apple. We put a worm going through the apple. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">This week I was able to get some great use out of activity bags my friend and I made last year. This activity was a measuring activity. Ava was given pictures of various lengths. She was also given different materials to measure with (pipe cleaners, string of beads, ribbon, etc...) We pretended that the materials were worms and she had to match the worms up to a picture that had the same length.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">It is difficult to study worms and not read one of my favorite books,<u> Diary of a Worm</u> . In the story the worm makes a macaroni necklace in art class. Dominic used colored pasta to create a macaroni necklace of his own. Ava did the same activity, except she was given different patterns that she needed to recreate using the pasta. She worked on AB, ABC, and AAB patterns. </span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQk0RudyrtRUi4X8lddhbynhI3iWQgFybEYp-iXSHAB3IeJBkq_0RMO7lJIa5anLBa1ydPKyihdBpM791-cLtHWBDoR7lWwiO0I0yTQIFaaWXJxa_8McKYf8T9FC4bPs7Zz5aJe6R7cGYu/s1600/IMG_1391.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQk0RudyrtRUi4X8lddhbynhI3iWQgFybEYp-iXSHAB3IeJBkq_0RMO7lJIa5anLBa1ydPKyihdBpM791-cLtHWBDoR7lWwiO0I0yTQIFaaWXJxa_8McKYf8T9FC4bPs7Zz5aJe6R7cGYu/s320/IMG_1391.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">We read the book <u>Diary of a Worm </u>two times. The first time we read it for fun. The second time we stopped after each page looking for things in the story that were fact and things in the story that were fiction. We wrote down our findings on fact and fiction posters. Here they are....currently the posters make up part of our living room decor. All part of home schooling I guess! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I even found the all natural version of oreos! Dominic loved crushing the cookies. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">The end result was yummy! We added some gummy worms on top for fun! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">This writing activity was super easy to create and Ava really enjoyed it. All you need for this activity are card stock sentence strips and Bend a Roos! (Or Wiki Sticks) I made cards with every letter in the alphabet, numbers 0-9, and created some word cards too. I of course made a card that said worm, but I also made cards for all the people in our family. I cut the Bend a Roos at different lengths. Ava had to trace the words using the Bend a Roos. I let her pick the words and letters she wanted to work on. This activity is great for seeing how letters form words, practicing to write letters, and letter recognition. </span></td></tr>
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<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078297489286784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6909277102237956145.post-72639727718410289052013-03-21T19:50:00.000-04:002013-03-21T19:50:04.136-04:00The Worms Have Arrived! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">There was much excitement today as we were about to head out to bring Ava to church school. Our much anticipated worms arrived! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Ava in her glory! A bag of 500 worms and she didn't even have to spend hours digging in the dirt to get them! ( I think she likes digging in the dirt too!)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Now that our worms had arrived we had no choice but to get our worm composting bin ready to go. After all, our new worms needed to eat! First step was to collect some dry leaves and a few cups of soil. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Shredding paper for the bedding kept Ava and Dominic busy during that hard to fill hour before dinner! I had them use scissors so they could get some cutting practice in at the same time! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">The kids were most excited about getting their hands on the worms. They were quite lively things despite there long journey to get to us! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">It was fun to watch them in their new home. Their first meal was a banana peel and orange peel the kids made sure to save from their lunches. </span><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Now that our worms are here, we are ready for our W is for worm week! Next week I will be taking a break from blogging, but will be back after Easter with our W is for worm activities. Wishing everyone a very happy Easter! </span>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078297489286784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6909277102237956145.post-54252899251993893762013-03-14T20:54:00.001-04:002013-03-14T20:54:44.566-04:00V is for Volcanoes (and a lesson on St. Patrick too!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Letter V week brought us some fun with volcanoes. It was a pretty low key week. We spent two days on volcanoes and an hour or so today talking about St. Patrick's Day. With only W,X,Y, and Z left to cover in the alphabet we are starting to wind down for the year. But, since its only March, we are not in any big rush. We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our composting worms to go along with W is for worms week. Since they have not come in yet, we will have a review week next week and then spend the week before Easter exploring the Easter Story and having some Easter themed fun! </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Here are a few pictures from our week! </span><br /><br />Books:<br /><u>Volcanoes</u> By: Franklyn M. Branley<br /><u>Volcanoes</u> By: Seymour Simon<br /><u>Patrick Patron Saint of Ireland </u>By: Tomie dePola<br /><u>St. Patrick's Day</u> By: Brenda Haugen<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVWqhQBoCyAp08tGFUdriMJ2CziYu1UljPQjmtRXi4Nr-PXthV0R70bf8tOXS3GY4InYfUJR1vaOVybMJg1oL0ZfarhL84e8qOk8TckZm31ghqE7sLbE_rEpItVJgWGzSnLuFeRqG1l9aN/s1600/winter+2013+038.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVWqhQBoCyAp08tGFUdriMJ2CziYu1UljPQjmtRXi4Nr-PXthV0R70bf8tOXS3GY4InYfUJR1vaOVybMJg1oL0ZfarhL84e8qOk8TckZm31ghqE7sLbE_rEpItVJgWGzSnLuFeRqG1l9aN/s320/winter+2013+038.JPG" width="213" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: purple;">The sensory table is usually the hit activity of the week and this week was no different. Over the course of the week Ava and Dominic have literately spent hours at this table. If they are really into something, I hate to stop them just to start a new activity. We didn't get everything accomplished I had planned this week. But, I'm okay with that! I made a batch of gooey gak (as we like to call it) and dyed it red to represent the hot lava of a volcano. I cut the bottom of two plastic cups and covered them with tinfoil to make volcanoes. I also added some plastic dinosaurs. Oh, and the kids love cutting the gak, so I added some scissors too. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: lime;">Ava's face says it all. They thought the reaction created by the vinegar and the baking soda was cool. They wanted to keep trying. They experimented using different amounts of baking soda and vinegar to see if they could create more of an eruption. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #660000;">I searched a long time for some volcano project ideas and finally found this idea on the blog <a href="http://mandeeandbrandy.blogspot.com/2011/04/volcano.html">Some of This and Some of That</a>. I liked this idea because it was simple and provided the opportunity to work on cutting skills. I also liked that the erupting lava was the letter V.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Ava created a mini letter V book from <a href="http://www.first-school.ws/theme/alphabetp4.htm#v">First School</a>. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">So, this was way off the Volcano topic. With St. Patrick's Day coming up, I wanted to incorporate the topic into the week..We read a couple books about St. Patrick's life and created a shamrock shaker. Since it has been said that St. Patrick taught the people of Ireland about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit being one using a clover, Ava labeled her clover. I am finding that the more opportunity for her to do her own writing, the more letters she is able to write without assistance or having to see me write it first. It is fun to watch things click! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">We are still having fun talking about our recent trip to the Newport Aquarium. Introducing the letter U using the under the sea theme was a perfect extension to our fun day visiting the sharks and other great under the sea creatures! </span></div>
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Books: <u>What Do You See Under the Sea? </u>By Bobbie Kalman </div>
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<u>It Could Still Be Coral </u>By: Allan Fowler</div>
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<u>Under the Sea</u> By: Dr. Frank H Talbot</div>
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<u>I Spy Under the Sea</u> By: Edward Gibbs</div>
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<u>Shells! Shells! Shells!</u> By: Nancy Wallace </div>
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<u>Let's Look at Opposites</u> By: Nicola Tuxworth </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;"><span style="color: #e06666;">To start off the week,we answered the question,"What lives under the sea?" Both Ava and Dominic had some great ideas and had fun remembering what we had seen at the aquarium.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">This week we practiced using directional words such as near, beside, between, under, over, behind, etc.. I gave the kids sea creatures. They had to listen to the directional words and put them in the correct arrangement. We also spent some time reviewing opposites such as under/over, near/ far, sink/float, etc... </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">The kids had fun creating their own under the sea habitats. They started by finger painting to create the water. I showed them how to use their fingers to make waves in the paint. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: lime;">I printed out sea animal clipart. Ava colored and cut her own. She used beans for the sand/rocks and Easter grass for the seaweed. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">We tested our predictions.Our foam letter U floated just like we thought! But, we were surprised that our mega block sank to the bottom. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">Ava decided to make her shark differently and said her shark was nice. I liked how she made it her own creation! </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Our language arts project for the week was scrapbooking our pictures from our visit to the aquarium. It's not completed yet, but coming a long and the kids are having fun with it. Ava has been working hard to label the pictures and decorate the pages. Dominic has been enjoying decorating the pages too! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">I found this free sea animal measuring activity at <a href="http://petersons-pad.blogspot.com/2012/02/measuring-freebie.html">Peterson's Pad</a>. Using foam cubes (found at the Dollar Tree), Ava had to determine the length of each sea animal. She then recorded her findings. She took this activity very seriously and kept saying, "this is fun"! I have been wanting to do more with measuring with her. This activity was a good introduction.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">We'll be moving onto the letter V next week. Plans are still in progress, but I do know the week will include building our own volcano! </span><br />
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Recently, I have been super thankful for other educators and parents who take the time to share their ideas on websites and blogs. It's basically how I have created Ava's first year of preschool. I love being creative and coming up with my own ideas. However, with 3 little ones at all different stages, it is really challenging to find any time during the day to get creative on my own. A quick search on Pinterest can be quite inspiring and get my creativity going! Sunday night I found myself in a lesson planning slump. We had a busy weekend, it was late, and I had nothing planned for Monday. I knew a few things. This week we would be working on the letter T. I wanted to have one day on teeth, one day on tea parties, and one day on trains. Pinterest pulled through once again and led me to some fun ideas! </div>
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All of these fun teeth activities were inspired by a visit to the blog <a href="http://mamabeefromthehive.blogspot.com/2011/03/dental-health.html">From the Hive</a>. </div>
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Book: <u>Going to the Dentist </u>By: Anne Civardi</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After our introduction to the letter T and reading the story <u>Going to the Dentist</u>, we took some time to talk about things that are good for our teeth and things that are bad for our teeth. Ava and Dominic took turns picking a picture and deciding if it should go with the happy healthy tooth or the sad unhealthy tooth. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our art project today was simple, but allowed more practice using small amounts of glue. Ava was given a large mouth without any teeth. Her job was to put the teeth back in the mouth. She is getting better at not using large globs of glue on small pieces of paper! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our math activity worked on using a dice. We took turns rolling the dice. The number displayed on the dice was how many teeth we were allowed to add to the mouth. The game ended when all the teeth were added to the mouth. I like these types of games because there is no winner. Everyone plays for the same goal! Dominic joined in too!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava practiced writing her letter Ts. Notice the lines are colored. I found this idea from <a href="http://blog.maketaketeach.com/strategies-for-improving-handwriting/">http://blog.maketaketeach.com/strategies-for-improving-handwriting/</a> It has really been helping Ava understand the concept of size when she writes. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This activity I knew would be a hit! I boiled eggs in tea. The tea stained the eggs. The eggs represented teeth and the tea stain represented what happens to our teeth when we don't care for them. I gave Ava and Dominic each a toothbrush (new of course), water, and tooth paste. They went to town brushing their egg. Though the egg never became as white as it was in the carton, the brushing and toothpaste did help clean it up a little. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava brushed her egg for a long time (like maybe 25 minutes!) After all that brushing the egg cracked. She asked if she could see what it looked like inside. I said sure and then the phone rang. That 5 minute phone call led to some unsupervised time with the egg. Before I knew it, Ava had quite the concoction of mashed hard boil egg, toothpaste, and water. It was all stirred together with her toothbrush. Oh well, she had fun and I was going to throw out the toothbrushes anyway. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For a treat at lunch, I made the kids mouths using apple slices (for the lips), peanut butter (for the gums), and mini marshmallows (for the teeth). </td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Tuesday: T is for tea party! </span></div>
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Tea parties are the new activity of choice at our house. It only seemed natural to have a T is for tea party day. Actually it was a tea is for tea party evening. Kyle took the little ones out for the evening while Ava and I had our school time. </div>
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Book: <u>Miss Spiders Tea Party</u> By: David Kirk </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As we read our story, we had a little tea party for two. We took out some very special teacups that my grandmother gave to me and Ava shortly before she passed away. Ava was excited to use real teacups and have real tea. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pattern for this craft came from <a href="http://kiboomukidscrafts.com/alphabet-letters-letter-t/">Kiboomu</a>. Since I didn't have to juggle my time between 3 kids during school time, I did the project with Ava. We each decorated a teacup and Ava assembled it on her letter T. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I actually did create one of my own ideas this week! This activity was created to review capital and lower case letters. I made a teacup for each capital letter. Together, we put the teacups in alphabetical order. Ava then had to take the lowercase "tea" (brown ovals that fit at the top of each cup) and match it up with the right teacup.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We made name trains to go along with the theme. The activity was a great way to practice writing our names. Since Ava's first name is so short, she also added our last name. She drew train tracks and added a person on the train. She said her train was a passenger train. This idea came from <a href="http://tippytoecrafts.blogspot.com/2011/10/name-trains.html">Tippy Toe Crafts</a>. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dominic has been really into Thomas the Train lately. He is not one to usually sit through many projects, but he was excited about this one! We worked together to find all his letters and put them in the right place.<br />
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This week we learned about the letter S and our 5 senses. We took our senses on the road and had some fun having our school time at a hockey game and the Newport Aquarium! I have to say, having school out in the community really appealed to Ava. She did some really good work this week and not once did she complain about a school activity. I know we can't realistically have school like this everyday, but it just made me more excited for the possibilities that home schooling presents! Take a look at our week! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">Prior to heading to the game, I introduced the letter S. We talked about words that start with S. We also read a book on the 5 senses and pointed out that the sense of sight and smell start with s too! I explained to Ava that while we were at the hockey game, she was going to use her 5 senses. She had to draw pictures in a journal of things that she heard, saw, smelled, touched, and tasted. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;">We used one of our snack times this week to focus on the sense of taste! I blind folded Ava and Dominic and had them taste a marshmallow, pretzel, piece of dark chocolate, raisin, lemon, and we ended with a yummy treat of ice cream. As they tasted the different foods with their eyes covered, they identified foods that were sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. We also talked about how they knew they were eating ice cream, not only by the way it tasted, but also by the way it felt in their mouth. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">We focused on the sense of smell by doing a painting project with Kool-Aid. I mixed different flavored packets of Kool-Aid with 2 TBS water each. The mixture created scented water colors. The kids had fun painting with them and identifying the different scents. This paint mixture does stain, so I highly recommend covering up clothes! Dominic has very blond hair. I was nervous he would try and paint his hair (because I wouldn't put it past him). Doesn't Kool-Aid dye hair? It was a very supervised painting project. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Ava created a letter S mini book from <a href="http://www.first-school.ws/INDEX.HTM">First-School </a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">One of the highlights of the week was the trip to the New Port Aquarium! We had some much fun that we went through twice! Same as the hockey game, we went knowing that we would be putting our five senses to work. Ava even picked up on the fact that she heard different types of music as each exhibit As we walked through the shark exhibit she said the music made her feel like the sharks were going to bite! </span></td></tr>
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This is going to be a quick blog on what we did during letter R week. I am actually a week late on posting, so letter S will follow shortly! We started our week with a trip to the museum for Ava's monthly home school Monday class. It was a great class on the five senses. It was a perfect topic because that it what we are learning about at home right now! During R week we focused on learning about rain. We read some great rain themed books and looked at the water cycle. I have limited pictures for the activities we worked on throughout the week. This month has proved to be quite scheduled with meetings and a lot of foster care commitments. We have found ourselves </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After reading the book, <u>Who Likes Rain </u>By: Etta Kaner, I asked Ava and Dominic to answer the question "Why do you like playing in the rain?" They dictated their answer to me to write and then illustrated it. It wasn't surprising both put they like the puddles! Here is Ava's illustration of her jumping in the puddles on a rainy day. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of our math activities this week was adding the correct number of raindrops to the umbrellas. We focused on numbers 0-15. Since it was Valentine's Day week we used heart counters as raindrops. It also went with the book we read, <u>The Day it Rained Hearts</u> By: Felicia Bond. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After talking about how the clouds form and the rain falls, we created rain clouds using cotton balls. We hung raindrops from the clouds and dabbed gray paint on the cotton to make the clouds look darker. Both kids enjoyed gluing the cotton balls. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On Valentine's Day we worked on graphing using conversation hearts. Ava had to sort and graph the hearts based on color. Oddly enough we found that the colors descended from left to right. There were a lot of pinks and only one purple! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Like I mentioned, we read the book <u>The Day It Rained Hearts</u>. At the end of the story the little girl finds heart trees. We made our own heart trees. For the tree branches and trunk, we painted Ava and Dominic's hand and arm and pressed it against the paper. They they glued hearts on the branches. </td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't believe we just finished up a week on the letter Q! Nine more weeks and we will have made it through the alphabet! Today, I worked on assembling a binder of all of Ava's work over the last several months. It was fun to see her work with letter A and compare it to her work with letter Q! She has grown a lot. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As far as letter Q goes, this week we focused on Q is for quilts. Below are pictures of the activities we worked on throughout our three days of preschool. Except for the projects, most activities were used daily. So, instead of breaking up this blog into three parts, I will just clump it all together. </span></div>
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<u>The Quilt</u> By: Ann Jonas</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">This activity was a letter Q quilt puzzle. Ava needed to match lower case and upper case q's as well as match shapes to create a quilt. This idea came from <a href="http://thisreadingmama.com/2012/01/04/q-is-for-quilt/">This Reading Mama</a>. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">We played a game to work on reviewing letters and numbers. Ava stood at the top of the stairs. I showed her a flash card of a number 0-15. If she identified the number correctly she got to take a step down. The goal is to make it to the bottom of the stairs. We did the same activity with letters. I showed her a flashcard of a letter A-Q. She had to tell me the name of the letter and the sound or sounds that the letter made. It is such a simple game. She loved it! I found this on the blog <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2010/02/prek-letter-q-for-quilt.html">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a>. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Ava and Dominic both took turns at the easel painting the capital letter Q using Q-tips.<br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">At the beginning of the year, I was really good about changing out our sensory table. Once I put cornmeal in it, I decided that it was kind of a pain to take out so it stayed there for a while. I finally switched it back to beans and added heart gems and little heart boxes since Valentine's Day is right around the corner. It has been a big hit! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">A fun surprise sensory activity we got to do this week was play with snow! Real snow! I find that having 3 small children pretty much keeps me out of the loop on what is going on in the world...weather included. So, I was surprised the other day when it started snowing and actually accumulating. Since there wasn't enough time to get everyone bundled before dinner, I just brought the snow in the house. It was the good sticky kind! All three kids ( okay me too) were entertained with this for a long time. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Ava made a lower case q "quilt". </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">This week we worked on numbers 15 and 16 in the Disney workbook. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;">We brought out all of our quilts and talked about the meaning behind them and looked for patterns. All three of the kids have been given a special quilt from their Grandma. We talked about the colors in each quilt and found the patterns too. Their Aunt Staci made a neat tee-shirt quilt for Kyle. We had fun talking about what kind of tee-shirt each of the squares used to be. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Ava went on a capital and lower case Q hunt. As she found the letter Q, she stamped it out with her dot paint. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">There wasn't any other way to read our quilt stories except cuddle up in the quilts! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Our neighbor, Miss Susie, is a quilter. She shared some of her scraps from quilts she has made. Ava created her own quilt (decorative of course). She started by exploring different ways she could make her quilt on a 9 block quilt pattern I made for her. She came up with probably 4 different ways before settling on how it would be! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">She glued her quilt squares together and then (using her own sewing needle!) laced around the edges. </span> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Our math activity this week was sequencing numbers 0-15 into a "quilt" strip. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Talking about quilts prompted some fun imaginative play this week. We went on picnics and took our quilts along to serve as our picnic blankets. The kids also had fun making cozy beds using their quilts. </span></td></tr>
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Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078297489286784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6909277102237956145.post-32856953607259674252013-02-05T21:34:00.001-05:002013-02-05T21:34:10.013-05:00Valentine Craft <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is a simple Valentine craft that I made with my kids last week. It only requires contact paper and tissue paper. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: small;">First, I cut a heart shape out of the contact paper. I removed the paper and placed the sticky side up on the table. (I taped it to the table so it wouldn't move around while the kids were trying to work).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: small;">I provided the kids with squares of red and pink tissue paper. Using the paper, they covered the entire heart. Overlapping the tissue paper actually creates an even better look in the end. </span></td></tr>
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It has been a fun and productive learning week. On Sunday night, I was actually ready a very different kind of week. Our Monday started off with having to get all three kids off to a sitter so we could attend a meeting for our foster daughter. My thought was that a morning long meeting would probably mean no school on Monday or at least it would have to wait until the afternoon. I find if Monday school is off to the a rough start it finds a way of leaking into the next day too! However, our neighbor (who I have to add, watched the kids on her day off) e-mailed me the night before and asked me what our letter of the week was going to be. I replied that we would be working on P and focusing on planets. When I went to pick the kids up, I found out that they had spent part of the morning on P related activities They played with plastic planets in a bean sensory bin, read books about planets, played princess memory, came up with a list of animals that start with P, and made letter Ps out of pasta! We have the best neighbors. The thoughtful act of taking the time to help me out with school time while I was busy really set a positive tone to the week. We ended up accomplishing everything I had planned and had some fun doing it! </div>
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Books: <u>I Am Planet Earth </u>By: Jean Marzollo</div>
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<u>First Big Book of Space</u> By: Catherine D. Hughes</div>
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<u>Every Planet has a Place</u> By: Becky Baines</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exploring our letter P box. This simple activity that starts off our letter of the week, continues to be a favorite . I think they love the element of surprise. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We focused on Planet Earth the first day to help build the concept that Earth is actually part of something much bigger. For our art project, Ava and Dominic made coffee filter Earths. They used washable blue and green marker to color the filter. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Next, they used a spray bottle to spray the filter. This causes the marker to bleed and gives it a tie-dye effect. This project was a great because even Dominic could do this one independently (except of course when I had to pry the water away from him because he loved spraying it so much!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They glued their Earth (after allowing them to dry) onto black paper and added stars. Ava even wrote Planet Earth all by herself! She enjoys being told what letters she need to write to form words. It is neat to watch this interest arise! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava explored how Earth experiences day and night. Every time she "rotated" away from the flashlight it was night. When she rotated toward the light it was day. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava worked on writing her numbers using a space shuttle count down worksheet found at <a href="http://dbsenk.wordpress.com/category/themes/outer-space/">Kindergarten Nana</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I created a pattern activity where Ava needed to place the missing pattern pieces in the pattern. She is used to adding on to patterns. Omitting parts of the pattern in the middle created an additional challenge. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of our math activities required Ava to count stars and label the number with the corresponding planet. This activity was a challenge because it went up to 15. She has made a lot of progress with her counting in the last month!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our culminating activity for the week was a diagram of the solar system. While planning, I tossed around a lot of ideas on how I wanted to build the solar system. I thought it would be fun to create a 3D model with her. But I decided since this won't be the last time we study space, I would wait until she was a little older. I found pictures of all the planets on <a href="http://dbsenk.wordpress.com/category/themes/outer-space/">Kindergarten Nana</a>. This activity was perfect for her because she could do a lot of it independently. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava did all the coloring and really got into using <u>The First Big Book of Space</u> as a resource for choosing how to color each of them. I was impressed when she added multi-colors to the planets to match the book!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Together, we figured out the order of the planets. This activity was also a great way to work on ordinal numbers. Ava added glitter dots around the planets to represent stars. </td></tr>
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<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078297489286784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6909277102237956145.post-70008985641856369892013-01-23T16:18:00.002-05:002013-01-23T16:18:41.757-05:00A look at N and O!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Over the last couple of weeks we have been working on learning about the letters N and O. Our weekly schedule has been switched around the last couple of weeks for various meetings and commitments. Now, I am trying to play catch up with the blog! Scroll down to see some of the activities we have done with N and O. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">We brought back out our hammer and nail activity. It was a hit with Dominic. He spent a lot of time nailing pictures of objects that started with N to the foam board. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Together we created a map of a neighborhood (because N is for neighborhood!) When it was finished I laminated it and taped it to the living room floor in our play area. Now the kids can bring out the Little People and their cars to play with it. Prior to this activity we took a walk in the neighborhood to find out what is in a neighborhood. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Ava practiced tracing capital and lowercase N. We also worked on the numbers 13 and 14 this week.</span> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Ava practiced writing her whole name. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Dominic had fun playing with the gems. he enjoyed scooping them and putting them in the muffin tins.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Ava played with the gems too, but she had a specific task to complete. Each muffin tin liner was labeled with the number 1-12. She needed to identify the number and add the correct number of gems to the muffin cup. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"> I gave Ava a large letter N. She used number stamps to decorate the inside of the N, (because N is for numbers!) cut the N out, and glued it on a different colored piece of paper. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763;">Working on numbers 13 and 14 in our Disney book. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">Matching upper and lower case letters using letter magnets. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Here Ava is practicing writing her numbers 1-10</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Our new Melissa and Doug number puzzles are lots of fun. Ava was given 7 mini puzzles to complete as one of her math activities. The puzzles go up to number 20. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">We talked about ovals as part of our letter O week. Really we just touched on ovals but did lots of activities using shapes. For our art project, Ava cut out lots of different shapes and created shape pictures.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Dominic experimented with the scissors some, but was much more interested in the glue. I gave him foam cutouts to glue on his paper while Ava worked on cutting out shapes and creating designs of hers. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Keeping with the shape theme, Ava worked on creating pictures using pattern blocks. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">O is for oblick! This is super easy to make. Take 2 cups cornstarch and mix with 1 cup water. When the mixture is in a container it forms a solid. But, when picked up it turns back to a liquid. The kids had a lot of fun with this. It is really messy, so I recommend doing this in an area that is easy to clean. If it wasn't winter we would have played with it outside.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">O is for owl. After reading a few different books about owls, we did a simple owl craft that I printed out from the blog <a href="http://getitdonemomma.blogspot.com/2012/12/alphabet-crafts-free-o-is-for-owl.html">Get 'Er Done Momma!</a> It was a great activity to practice cutting skills.</span> </td></tr>
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<b>We are gearing up for letter P week here. I plan to do a whole week on the planets. Ava is convinced we should be learning about princesses since princesses starts with P too! I think she will find that the planets are pretty cool too, but I am sure we can weave in a few princess stories into our week too! </b>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078297489286784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6909277102237956145.post-2346122490497442812013-01-11T22:20:00.000-05:002013-01-11T22:20:01.788-05:00Marvelous M<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We started the new year off with a full week of m is for money, magnets, and maps! As nice as it was to be out of our normal routine for the last few weeks, it was certainly nice to be back into our old one! This week we had 4 days of preschool. The first day we used as a review of the letters and numbers we have worked on, school time expectations, and really just how to use our school materials and everything we have been away from for a while. It was time well spent and set us up for the coming days! On days 2,3, and 4 we focused on money, magnets, and maps. </div>
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Book: <u>Chicka Chicka Boom Boom</u> By Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">New month, new year, new calendar pattern! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Ava and Dominic LOVE it when our letter monster comes out. Today he visited , but was hungry for numbers. In his monster voice he asked the kids to feed him specific numbers. Ava helped Dominic find the number when it was his turn. It was a fun review of numeral recognition. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">For an art project today we pulled out one of our several activity bags I created with a friend almost a year ago. They made collages out of pictures from magazines and stickers. A fun simple project on our first day back, but also a great little review (specifically for Dominic) on how we use the glue and art supplies. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Ava has writing her name down well. However, she chooses to use all capital letters even when reminded only the first letter should be caps. So, with the new year we are also making a new expectation. her name needs to be written in capital and lower case. I am also introducing the spelling of her middle and last name. She practiced tracing her name. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">The counting wheel activity has made several appearances during our school time. Working with numbers is an area that provides Ava with a great challenge. We have been heavy on the letters over the last few months. She picks up on letters and sounds very quickly. Over the next few months, I will try to put more emphasis on working with numbers and helping Ava to see why math so important! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">We started a letter train to have a better visual of all the letters we have learned and where we are headed. She filled in the train through L. She will add a letter each time a new letter is introduced. The train was printed from <a href="http://www.first-school.ws/theme/printables/alphabet-train.htm">First -School.ws</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Day 2- M is for Money </span></div>
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Today we brought back out our letter box and found it filled with lots of objects that started with m. We took time to discuss money- why we have it, what we use it for, what it looks like, feels like, what it is worth, etc... </div>
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Book: <u>Money, Money, Honey Bunny</u> By Marilyn Sadler</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">We practiced counting pennies in the piggy bank. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Ava was given piggy banks with a number on each one. She needed to add the correct number of coins to each bank (The coin type didn't matter. We did take a close look at each type of coin and talk about what it was called, how much it was worth, and what president was found on each.) </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">For our letter M project I taught Ava how to do coin rubbings on a cutout of the letter. She attempted a few and decided to draw her own coins on the M instead (hence the circles all over the M). I then gave her printouts of pennies to glue on the M as well. The rubbings were a good thought, but too challenging because the coins were slipping out from under the paper and crayon. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Another math activity we did was coin sorting. I taped one coin under each cup so she could better compare the coins before sorting them. The penny and the dime were easy for her to separate out, but the nickle and quarter took extra concentration. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Day 3- M is for Magnets (and money continued!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Though the focus was on magnets, I brought back out the money activities from day 2. Another goal I have for our school time is to be more repetitive with activities throughout the week. The repetition is not only great for the kids, but a little less planning for me! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">We had fun with trying to figure out what objects attract magnets. I had a container of several objects. Ava, Dominic, and their friend took turns selecting an object, predicting if the magnet would attract it, and checking their predictions.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">So the art activity for our magnet theme was a bit of a flop, but had a great outcome just the same. The plan was to move a metal washer through paint in the pizza box by placing a magnetic stick under the box. The idea worked great until the paint was in the box. The magnet wasn't strong enough to move the washer through the paint. But, we simply used a Magneto ball from our Magneto set, called it a marble (to keep with the letter m) and rolled the ball through the paint. The end results were really cool. I can't wait to hang them in the kids' room! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Dominic had fun playing with the coins in his bear bank. He wanted to know all the names of the faces on the coin. Ava joined in when she was finished with her school work. </span></td></tr>
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Book: <u>I Know About Maps</u> By: Chris Jaeggi </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Our monster friend visited for a game of number eating! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Today we looked at and discussed different types of maps such as the world map, the city bus map, an atlas, and even a treasure map! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">The art activity (taken from <a href="http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2011/01/map-m-letter-of-the-week-and-geography-lesson.html">No Time for Flash Cards</a>) provided some practice with scissors. Ava cut the capital M out of an old map. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Dominic was pretty excited about the fact he was allowed to practice with the scissors. He worked at snipping around the edges for a long time! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Ava glued her M on construction paper and decorated it to be a treasure map. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">I let Ava pick her own math activity today. She chose an animal counting activity. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">The highlight of the morning was the treasure hunt. I created a map of our kitchen and living room. We studied the map by figuring out what the different pictures on the map symbolized and where they are located in the actual kitchen or living room. I hid 6 mega blocks around the two rooms. Each block was labeled with the clue number and a letter. The kids had to look at the map to determine where each clue was hidden. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">When all the clues were found, we stacked the clues in order from 1-6 to reveal where the treasure was hidden. As can</span> <span style="color: #351c75;">be seen, the treasure could be found in or on the couch!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Excited to find the treasure- a special snack, new pencil, and a notebook for everyone! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">As a teacher, I always loved taking those last few days before the holidays to have some holiday fun! This year my kiddos are at a fun age to start some of my favorite holiday activities!<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">On Monday we focused on the candy cane and the symbolism behind it. Though the lights, Christmas carols, and the magic of Santa are all fun, I don't want to my family to lose sight of why we are really celebrating Christmas. I love the symbolism behind the candy cane. </span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZRc-dJgVWd80QHgpUYcMwpe_Edwh4GxlmfkCuTHjyP42LxJzjLSgrsC4lWRWPSAeDoI2NIrNdYJb25J6f5PMp_a50r23UBXmuZ8HE02XJXgIxnlNWUJTCWbYSnXcaYBSZK5yEne9lOFrk/s1600/IMG_0133.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZRc-dJgVWd80QHgpUYcMwpe_Edwh4GxlmfkCuTHjyP42LxJzjLSgrsC4lWRWPSAeDoI2NIrNdYJb25J6f5PMp_a50r23UBXmuZ8HE02XJXgIxnlNWUJTCWbYSnXcaYBSZK5yEne9lOFrk/s320/IMG_0133.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I found this cute explanation behind the meaning of a candy cane at <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/">http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com</a>.<br />We chose to fill in our candy cane using pieces of tissue paper. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have seen versions of this game all over Pinterest and thought that we would give it a try! Ava. Enjoyed it so much that we decided to play it at our Polar Express party too. I printed out the outline of a gingerbread man. I wrote the 3 sets of the numbers 1-6 in the gingerbread. Ava and her friend took turns rolling a dice, identifying the number on the dice, finding the number on their paper, and stamping it out using dot markers. We kept playing until all the numbers were found! It was great practice rolling the dice and learning how to read the dice. This will help when we play other games involving dice. <iframe bordercolor="#000000" frameborder="0" height="150" hspace="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/N963.148119.BLOGGEREN/B6527721.7;dcadv=3632184;sz=180x150;lid=41000613802463762;pid=EDRE554;usg=AFHzDLvmmAwIWpbE17iwcprnGmNc7ieE8A;adurl=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.funtoymall.com%252Fedre554.html%253Fmr%253AtrackingCode%253DB0E055D1-50C5-DF11-907B-002219318F67%2526mr%253AreferralID%253DNA;pubid=607035;price=%2414.81;title=DO-A-DOT+ART+DAD201+DO...;merc=FuntoyMall;imgsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fsite.unbeatablesale.com%2Fimg021%2Fedre554.jpg;width=110;height=82" vspace="0" width="180"></iframe></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The salt dough ornaments were fun and easy! We made ours using 2 cups flour, 1 cup salt, and 3/4 cup water. After mixing until it formed into a ball, I rolled it out and the kids tried out all the Christmas cookie cutters. I baked them at 200 degrees for about 45 minutes. I still don't feel like they dried as well as they should, but we'll see! The kids also had fun painting them once they had cooled. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our versatile baby coral became the Polar Express train. Once all the guests arrived (dressed in jammies of course!) We boarded the train to read the one of my very favorite Christmas books, <u>The Polar Express</u>.<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We spread out all the kid's sleeping bags in the train and made sure our Christmas books were there too! But, there was no time for reading once the party started! This is Dominic patiently waiting for our guests to arrive. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sensory activity for the day was snow! Not real snow, unfortunately. I did this last winter and it was a hit. I can't remember where I came across it, but what you do is remove the inside of (clean) diapers and add water. The diaper material absorbs the water leaving it feeling somewhat like snow! I added ice cubes to make it feel cold like snow. The kid played in the "snow" with the Fisher Price Little People. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had some Christmas and train related choices for the kids to play with after the game, train craft, and sensory activity. This one was a Christmas tree math activity. Each tree had a number on the trunk and needed to be decorated with that many ornaments (which were small craft gems). It didn't really work out as I had planned. Ava decorated the two smallest numbers she could find and decided she was done. Dominic came through to "try" the activity and decided to dump the entire container of these small gems on the floor. Oh well, we'll put this activity away for another day! Some of our friends had fun playing at the train table and making the train ABC puzzle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The party ended with some Polar Express pizza! My friend precooked pizza dough, and using a cookie cutter cut train shapes out of the dough. It's hard to tell from the picture, but you get the idea!<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are fully excited for the holidays and to celebrate Jesus' birthday with our family! Wishing all a very blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year! ~Amanda~</span></td></tr>
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Lions and lights were the talk of preschool this week. It was an exciting letter to talk about because we know lots of family and friends whose name starts with the letter L! We had two days of home preschool this week since Ava attended the Home School Monday program at the museum. </div>
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On Tuesday we talked about Lions. We read <u>Face to Face with Lions</u> by: Beverly and Dereck Joubert and <u>Nobody Laughs at a Lion</u> by: Paul Bright. During our circle time we also discussed some basic facts about lions (Where they live, what they eat, how they live in prides) and even got to hear a lion roar and see a lion in action at <a href="http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/">National Geographic Kids</a>. On Wednesday we talked all about lights. The kids are LOVING all the Christmas lights this year, so they had fun sharing all the places we see lights. We also sang <i>This Little Light of Mine</i>.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">During art time, we made lion faces. I got the idea from the blog <a href="http://www.teachpreschool.org/2010/12/l-is-for-lion-in-preschool/">Teach Preschool</a> , except I chose to have the kids use paper strips to make the mane instead of colored pasta. Here is Ava's final product! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dominic LOVES to use the glue now! He needs close supervision or the above happens. This would be when the doorbell rang. Supervision went from me sitting next to him to 2 minutes of free reign with the glue bottle! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava practicing her letter Ls</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think it is safe to say Ava has mastered identifying numbers 0-7, but 8, 9, and 10 continue to confuse her a little. So, this week we focused only on 8 and 9. I think she is getting the hang of it! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We had some fun with the counting bears. first she sorted them by color, and then we worked on creating AB an d ABC patterns. She is getting really good at patterning! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She wanted to count them before we picked them up. She was so excited that we counted to 50! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We used sequencing cards to put an event in order from start to finish. The first event we did was building a snowman and the second was making chocolate milk. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dominic joined in on this activity too! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On Wednesday we decorated letter Ls with Christmas lights. This idea came from<br /><a href="http://www.littlefamilyfun.com/2010/12/l-is-for-lights.html">Little Family Fun</a>. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava worked on the next page of her ongoing alphabet book. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made Ava two pattern strips to practice patterning using Christmas light bulb cutouts. We did some together, and then I let her create her own. She glued her own down to the paper. This idea also came from <a href="http://www.littlefamilyfun.com/2010/12/l-is-for-lights.html">Little Family Fun</a>. </td></tr>
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Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078297489286784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6909277102237956145.post-50197160922455854252012-12-11T14:09:00.001-05:002012-12-11T14:10:17.516-05:00The Holidays are Coming <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With the holidays fast approaching, I am feeling the final count down crunch like many! Last week I totally skipped out on blogging, but it wasn't an accident. In all the hustle and bustle of house projects, taking care of kids, planning preschool, and keeping up with the day to day tasks (how three little bodies can produce so much laundry, I will never know!), I was looking for one place to cut back. Blogging it was! We still went on with our preschool plans. (We studied the letter K!) I just chose to leave the camera behind and focus on our lessons. It was a good change of pace! December just gets so crazy, and I will be the first to admit that I get overwhelmed by the ever growing to do list that needs to be checked off before December 25th!<br />
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Here are a couple of blogs that I have enjoyed reading over the last couple of weeks. These blogs talk about simplifying and keeping to the true meaning of Christmas. Sounds good to me!<br />
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<a href="http://notjustcute.com/2012/12/04/147-things-you-dont-need-to-do-during-the-holidays/">Not Just Cute </a><br />
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Unfortunately, my kiddos aren't lucky to have the camera put away for two weeks in a row. I have it back out and I am trying to capture our letter L week happenings! But, I am sure I will have to look for some other way to simplify the week. Wonder how long we could go without doing laundry? : )Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078297489286784080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6909277102237956145.post-87005313375702823552012-11-29T20:06:00.002-05:002012-12-05T21:31:11.410-05:00Jumping Jacks for J! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This week was one of those neat times when I can look back and start seeing results of our school time. Ava has been super into her letters and is really interested in putting her letters together to make words. And, since we are moving right along in the alphabet, we are able to play more alphabet games. She is more willing to try and (most of the time) is really excited about her "school work". This week we worked on the letter J. In the math department we have been working on patterning, sequencing, one to one corresponding, and really trying to master numeral recognition. </div>
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Story and Song:<i> Jack and Jill</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To review our letters (and look ahead to the coming letters) our monster friend visited for a game . The lower case letters were spread out face up on the floor. The capital letters were in a pile face down. Ava had to pick a capital letter, find its lower case letter and feed the pair to the monster. I got this cool game idea from Little Family Fun <a href="http://www.littlefamilyfun.com/2012/05/alphabet-monster-game.html">http://www.littlefamilyfun.com/2012/05/alphabet-monster-game.html</a>. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Jack and Jill art activity was a simple coloring sheet of the nursery rhyme. But, before coloring, Ava had to find and highlight all the letter Js in the rhyme. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Ava made the letter J mini book from http://www.first-school.ws/theme/alphabetp2.htm#d </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava was excited that Daddy had the day off and could do some school work with her! Here she is working on her counting wheel. </td></tr>
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Books: Eyewitness Books- <u>The Jungle</u> and <u>The Loudest Roar</u> By: Thomas Taylor</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our mornings had to include some J is for jumping jacks!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Itsy Bitsy Learners (http://itsybitsylearners.com/preschool-themes/jungle/) had great jungle themed printables. Here Ava is working on matching upper and lower case letters. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Also, from Itsy Bitsy Learners, Ava had to count the jungle animals and place the correct number on each card. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our sensory activity this week was rice with jungle animals.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For our jungle art project, Ava had to trace the letter J using our dot paints. She then colored, cut, and glued animals that would be found in the jungle. </td></tr>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">J is for Jelly Beans!</span></div>
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Books: <u>Jelly Beans for Sale</u> By: Bruce McMillan and </div>
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<u>The Jellybeans and the Big Art Adventure </u>By: Laura Numeroff and Nate Evans</div>
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Songs: <i>5 Little Jellybeans</i> (counting rhyme)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The jelly bean project was a hit for the obvious reason that jelly beans are yummy! But, they each got a few before the project to eat and surprising didn't eat any during the project! Dominic practiced gluing jelly beans. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava filled in the outline of the capital and lowercase J with her jelly beans. </td></tr>
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This week Ava also worked her handwriting activities, focused on learning about the number 8, and practiced making puzzles.<br />
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We are back to school after a week of a wonderful visit from Mimi and Papa! I think I have come to a new realization. I am not sure there is such thing as just a normal week. Weeks that don't seem normal are become the norm! Or I should just say that every week presents its own challenges and surprises! This week everyone took their turn being sick and we had a surprise home visit from our foster care agency in the middle of it! Yet, we still managed to learn all about I and have some fun doing it. Here is a glimpse at our week!</div>
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<b><span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;">Books: </span></b><u>Wemberly's Ice-Cream Star</u> By: Kevin Henkes</div>
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<u>How Did That Get to My Table? Ice Cream </u>By: Pam Posenberg</div>
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(I have introduced Ava to the terms fiction and non fiction. I now try to have one of each on a topic. We discuss which type of book it is and why it would be classified as that.)</div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><b>Song:</b></span><i><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span>I Like Ice Cream</i> -Jean Warren- </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Part of the ice cream rhyme we recited involved knocking all the scoops of ice cream on the floor. This was Dominic's favorite part. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For the art activity, Ava had to assemble scoops of ice cream on a cone in order from 0-5. She added some sequence to it for some added sparkle!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">During math time, Ava, pretended she worked at an ice cream shop. I gave her four cones to work on at a time. Each cone had a number on it. She had to put the correct number of scoops on each cone. We used the magnetic board for this activity.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the language arts activities (not ice cream related) came from www.prekinders.com . Ava was given a set of picture cards and a mat containing pictures that rhymed with the pictures on the cards. She completed three mats. I recommend checking out the prekinders website. She has so many great printable activities! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Since we have been on break for the last week, we introduced our November calendar pattern this week. This month we will work on completing and AABB pattern. This has become one of Ava's favorite circle time activities. She always wants Dominic to put up the daily weather so she can work on the pattern!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sensory activity actually involved preparing for a science experiment planned for Tuesday.The kids were given ice cube trays, measuring spoons, and measuring cups. Using the cups and spoons they practiced scooping and pouring water into the ice cube trays. When they were finished exploring the water, I froze the water in the ice cube trays. (I added food coloring to each cube before putting them in the freezer. See Tuesday to see how we used the ice! </td></tr>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><b>Books</b></span>: <u>Casy and Derek on the Ice </u>By: Marty Serderman</div>
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<u>Cat on the Ice</u> By: Susan Schade and Jon Buller</div>
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(I didn't come across an non fiction stories about ice at our library but these stories were a good reminder that ice can be used to skate on since this is something we have not done yet!)</div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><b>Songs:</b></span> <i>I Love Ice </i>Jean Warren </div>
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(Jean Warren has a great website at http://www.preschoolexpress.com. It's my go to place for theme related rhymes and songs!)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The art project was a hit! The kids were given paint pops (just washable paint and water frozen in Popsicle molds) and large white paper. They painted with the ice pops. This idea came from http://www.thechocolatemuffintree.com/2011/07/painting-with-ice-cubes.html. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was cool to see how the paint changed as the ice began to melt. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ava discovered she could use the paint that was melting in the bowl that held the ice pops and drip it all over her paper. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The finished results of ice painting. I thought they came out pretty neat! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our science experiment used the colored ice cubes we made during our sensory activity the day before. We looked at the molds and talked about how the water changed and why it changed. The kids described how it felt and talked about what shape the ice would be in when we took them out of the molds. (I remembered to cover their clothes, but forgot how food coloring stains hands until after they all touched the ice! Luckily we have plastic gloves on hand and the kids didn't seem to mind that they had red fingers!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The purpose of our experiment was to observe what happens to ice when it is not kept frozen.. We also used the opportunity to explore colors and how colors changed when mixed. Here Dominic is putting blue and orange ice cubes in a bag. We also made up bags of blue and red ice and red and yellow ice.<br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Today our sensory activity was (naturally) ice! I am always amazed at how much entertainment ice, bowls, spoons, and ice cream scoops provide!</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b>Book:</b></span> <u>Musical Instruments</u> By: Ruth Thomson</div>
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Okay, so Wednesday was slim in school content. One by one we each took our turn having a sick day. Wednesday day turned into an overlapping day for a few of us! It was also the day we had a surprise home visit for Lillly. These happen periodically. When these happen we are forced to drop everything to visit with the social worker. The beauty of home school is we do what we can and can work on the rest when we are ready!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We started our morning by reading a nonfiction book about how to make instruments. We learned about many different types of instruments. We brought out our box of instruments and used them to play and sing. Then I turned it into a math game to practice recognizing numbers and counting. I showed Ava number flash cards. She had to tell what number was on the card and then together we all drummed or shook our instruments that many times. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After an interrupted school day and a little remaining energy left in the evening, I brought out the number beads. Ava had fun making number necklaces. I tried to pick a couple numbers and ask her if she could make me a necklace using only the numbers I chose (so she would have to use her number recognition skills!). But, she said that she had her own way of making necklaces. Considering the day we had and that she was fully engaged in doing it her own way, I was perfectly content letting her use the materials as she wanted! </td></tr>
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Next week we have Home School Monday class at the Cincinnati Museum and will spend Tuesday and Wednesday learning about Thanksgiving. We sure have a lot to be thankful for! </div>
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