Second Week of June 2012

A bit of a slower week... vacation bible school, safety town and vacations going on... so we didn't do as much as I would have liked to and it looks like next week will be even slower.

My older readers worked on Explode the Code Book 1 and sight words.  I didn't take pictures of the Explode the Code work but did take pictures of the sight word book.

 We used 1+1+1=1, You Can Read program for these two pages. 

 I used the ideas posted on Moffatt Girls, Ready2Read program for these two pages.

My other children worked on letters Aa and Bb.

 We finished up Aa with these activity papers.

 And we started Bb with these activity sheets.

And my tots started this Bb book.

We dot markered a letter Bb for the cover from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 We put butterflies together with upper and lowercase Bb's from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 We worked on our outdoor toy vocabulary with this from 1+1+1=1.

 We put dot markers on letter Bb's on the ball from 1+1+1=1.

 We found the pictures with clues and colored them according to directions at 1+1+1=1.



We colored balls according to the colored color word from 1+1+1=1.

And we worked on our Wild West Books.

We talked about how cowboys use horses and we matched front end (already glued) to back end horses with upper and lowercase letters.

 We talked about a horses shoes vs. our shoes and we did this activity sheet from Preschool Palace.

 We made horses...

 And here they are.

And we made some Father's Day gifts...

 We colored trophies and put them on a black big envelope.

 We filled out a Dad Questionairre and drew a picture of Dad on the back.

And we made a handprint poem picture.

There's our week.

Rose



Third week of school

Boy that was a fast week!  Not sure why because last week was a four day week and it dragged... thought it would never be Friday. 

We had a lot of fun this week...
We continued learning the letter Bb.  Below is a copy of our whole Letter Bb book.  I know I posted a few pages last week, but I decided to put them with the completed book.  You can download most of the pages here.

 We introduce the letter and colored the cover.  On the first page we put together 3 piece

puzzles of both the upper and lowercase Bb and then we colored the parts of the bell

that had the letter Bb in them.

 On page 2 we found the Bb picture or letter that was different and we put a ten piece

counting puzzle together of balloons.  On page 3 we did a spin and graph and traced

letter Bb's.

On page 4 we used Confessions of a Homeschoolers letter search... and I might add

the children loved this story (we emphasized the "boom").  On page 5 we used "Getting

Ready for the Code" to find pictures using the clues they gave (I had them color all the pictures

vs. following the directions exactly), we traced letter Bb's, and we printed b's under

pictures that began with the Bb sound (again from "Getting Ready for the Code").

On page 6 we circled the letter the picture began with and at the bottom we

wrote the letter the picture began with. On page 7 we named the picture words and

decided it we heard the /b/ sound at the beginning or end of the word and then we

traced the letter Bb. 

 On page 9 we named each Bb picture word, traced the word, and colored the picture.

We also wrote a few words of choice on the orange page.  On page 10 we sorted

letter Bb's and traced and wrote some Bb's.

On page 11 we colored the picture word in each row that started with the

/b/ sound and we traced and wrote Bb's.

We also made a baseball buddy from DLK.

 And we made a bee from an uppercase B that I found here and a butterfly from a lowercase b that I found here.

We worked on our sight words a, and, see, and the using 1+1+1=1 sight word unit.

 We circled the different sight words according to the key.

We found our sight words in sentences.

We also did many activities at the pocket chart reading the sight words,

spelling the sight words and playing games with the sight words.

Lastly, we started our apple theme. 

 We made apple trees... they were supposed to be fingerprints... but our little fingers

were just to small so we fingerpainted the tree top part and used a paint dabber to

put the apples on.  We traced our hand and arm onto brown construction paper

for the trunk.

 We made apple cores out of paper plates and dot-r-markers from the pieces to

the right... but I forgot to take a picture of the finished product. 

 We completed this book counting apples from the Virtual Vine.

We ripped paper making an apple.

And we did a apple counting sheet from the Virtual Vine.

Hope you enjoyed our week!