Second and Third Week of April 2012

We didn't do much the second week of April and picked back up some on the third week so I combined them into one post.

Here is what we did...

We were introduced to the letter Vv in these weeks.  We did many activities and our letter Vv books... both a tot book and an older child book.  Here are pictures of our Letter Vv books.

Older Children Letter Vv Book

 This is the cover and we colored the letter Vv and the van.

 On the left we put together our three piece letter puzzles and colored vases that had the letter Vv in them.  On the right we found the one that was different and drew lines from vases to the letter Vv both from Getting Ready for the Code Series.

 On the left we listened to clues to find the picture and colored them according to directions and we did a pre-writing activity both from Getting Ready for the Code Series.  On the right we found letter Vv's in the letter hunt from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

On the left we said the picture name and circled the letter that we heard at the beginning of the picture word from Getting Ready for the Code Series and we traced letter V's.  On the right we said the picture names and colored and printed v's for all the pictures that began with the /v/ sound and we traced letter v's. 

 On the left we drew lines from the pictures to the letters it began with from Getting Ready for the Code Series and we traced/printed letter V's.  On the right we circled the letter the picture in the center of each triangle began with from Getting Ready for the Code series and we traced/printed letter v's.

 On the left we said the name of the picture sound, circled the letter it began with and printed the letter we circled and we traced/printed letter Vv's.  On the right we said each picture name and printed the letter the picture began with.

Tot Letter Vv Book

 This is the cover and we used dot markers to fill in the letter Vv's.

 On the left we colored volcanoes the color indicated by colored color words and on the right we colored a volcano both from 1+1+1=1.

 On the left we used clues to find the pictures and colored them according to directions.  On the right we matched shapes.  All these activities are from 1+1+1=1.

 On the left we found letter Vv's in the volcano and on the right we did a pre-writing activity all from 1+1+1=1.

Here we matched grayscale pictures to color pictures from 1+1+1=1.

We talked about Gary the Gardener and some vehicles he uses when he gardens.

We had fun making tractors and playing with them.

 We had fun making 16 wheelers to carry the produce to the store and playing with them.

 And we sorted vegetables and fruits to know what truck to put each in.

As I said.  Not a whole lot this week although it seemed as though we were plenty busy.

Hope to see you back for next week.

Best,

Rose





Third week in March 2012

This month we learned...

The letter Uu.  We did many activities and completed our letter books.  Below I have posted our older children Letter Uu Books and our Tots Letter Uu book.

Letter Uu Books

 Here is the cover.  We colored the Uu's and the umbrella.

 On the left we made our three piece letter Uu puzzles and we colored umbrellas that had the letter

Uu in them.  On the right we found the one that was different and circled letter Uu's on the bottom of the page.

 On the left we found the pictures using clues and colored the pictures according to directions and we

traced letter Uu's.  On the right we used Confessions of a Homeschoolers Letter Hunt to find Uu's.

 On the left we drew lines from the letter Uu to pictures that began with the Uu sound and we

traced and printed letter Uu's.  On the right we said the picture name, printed the letter the picture

began with, and colored the picture.

 On the left we found the picture in each box that started with the letter Uu sound and traced/printed

letter U's.  On the right we said the picture name, circled the letter it started with, and printed the letter that was circled and we traced/printed letter u's.

Tot Letter Uu Books

On the cover we used dot markers to make the letter Uu from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 On the right we used Confessions of a Homeschoolers umbrella shape matching to make umbrellas and then we started a book about different animals being under an umbrella (I can't remember where I got this).

 On the left we continued the book from above.  On the right we colored an umbrella from 1+1+1=1.

 On the left we found pictures from clues and colored them according to directions and on the right we found letter Uu's in the umbrella and colored them.  Both are from 1+1+1=1.

The last page in our book was matching pictures (under are grayscale pictures that they matched

colored pictures to and glued them on top) from 1+1+1=1.

We talked a lot about spring.

We talked about spring weather and made a weather wheel.

We decided if we liked summer or winter weather.

We talked about kites and did this kite puzzle.

We talked about how a caterpillar develops into a butterfly.

We made a caterpillar that opens up into a butterfly.

We did a number ordering making a caterpillar.

And we made caterpillars that were a certain number of dots long.

We talked about gardening and how things grow.

We talked about the different tools used in the garden and then role played using the tools.

We sequenced the way a plant grows... we also acted out being seeds and growing into big plants.

We used Musing of Me's what makes a flower grow graphing... we saw pictures of things that

help the flower grow and things that don't.  When we found a picture that helps a flower grow we

would color in one part of the stem.  This is no longer able to be downloaded.

We made a tree.

We sequenced a tree.

We learned the nursery rhyme, "Mary Had a Little Lamb".

We did this coloring sheet after learning the rhyme.

We made some sheep.

And we talked about sheep families.

Hope you enjoyed our week.

Best,

Rose