Fourth Week in February 2012

Trying to get caught up today...  so I've posted twice. 

Here is what we did this week...

We learned about the letter Rr and did our letter books.  I did both a Preschool and Tot version to the book.



This is our Preschool Letter Rr Book

 On our cover we colored the letter Rr and the rabbit.

On the left we put together three piece puzzles of Rr and colored the rabbits that had an Rr

on them.  On the right we found the one that was different and did a pre-writing activity. 

On the left we colored the spaces on the rocket that had a letter Rr and we circled the letters
in the row that were the same as the first letter in the box.  On the right we did a letter hunt from
Confessions of a Homeschooler.

On the left we found Rr pictures through clues and then followed directions to color them and then
we traced letter R.  On the right we colored the picture in each box that began with the /r/ sound
and traced r.

 On the left we circled the letter that each picture began with and traced/printed letter R's.  On the right

we colored the pictures that began with the /r/ sound and printed r's on the line below the picture

and we traced/printed letter r.

 On the left we drew lines from pictures to the letter that makes its beginning sound and we circled and printed the letter that is the beginning picture sound.  On the right we printed the letter that makes each

pictures beginning sound and we traced/printed Rr's.

This is our Tot Letter Rr Book

We used dot markers to make letter Rr's from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 We matched color clouds to the rainbows from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 We colored a rain forest from 1+1+1=1.

 We found pictures that began with Rr and colored them according to directions from

1+1+1=1.

 We found the letter Rr's in the picture from 1+1+1=1.

We did a pre-writing activity from 1+1+1=1.

And we did a picture matching from 1+1+1=1.

For President's Day we talked about George Washington.

We talked about George Washington as we did this paper piecing as we glued facts

onto the page.

We heard the story of George cutting down the cherry tree and made cherry trees.

We talked about the occupation of being a carpenter.

We matched tools.

We made houses out of popsicle sticks.  We decorated them too, but I forgot

to get pictures.

We talked about the occupation of a florist.

We waterpainted flowers.

We made these toilet tube flowers.  You can find the directions here.

We talked about the occupation of a mail carrier.

Here are a mail carriers wearing their hats.

 We made mail trucks.

 And we sequenced a "mail" story.

Our last two activities were math activities.

We cut out ten dimes and practiced tracing the number 10.  We also counted

to ten and counted by 10's.

We drew the number of snowflakes in the snowman around the snowman.

Hope you enjoyed our week.  Finally caught up!!!  Off to making learning box games.

Best,

Rose

Third Week in February 2012

When is the "busy" going to end!?!  This has been a year so far where my plate is so full and keeps filling... but for some reason I can't empty any of it.  Hope that changes soon as I do not like that feeling.

This past week we did the following...

We learned about the letter Qq and did are "Letter Qq Books".  I did both a Tot book and a Preschool book this week.

Our Preschool Qq Book looked like this

 This is the cover and we colored the letter Qq's and the queen.

 On the left we put together two three-peice puzzles of the letter Qq and we colored queens that 

had a Qq in them.  On the right we colored the picture that was different and circled letters that 

were the same as in the first box.

 On the left we colored parts of the quilt that had a Qq and we listened to clues to find the right Qq

picture and then followed directions to color the picture.  On the right we drew lines from the letter to

a picture that started with the sound of the letter and we traced Qq's.

 On the left we used Confessions of a Homeschoolers letter hunt to find the letter Qq's.  On the right

we drew lines from the pictures to the letter that we heard in the beginning of the word.

 On the left we listened to the beginning sound of the picture, circled the letter that makes that beginning sound, and printed the letter and we traced and printed Qq's.  On the right we listened to the picture name in each diamond and circled the

letter on the point that makes that beginning sound and we printed/traced letter Qq's.

 On the left we circled the letter that makes the beginning sound of the picture in front of the letters

and we traced and printed letter Qq's.  On the right we printed the letter that makes the beginning

sound in each picture.

Our Tot Letter Qq Book looked like this

 We used our dot markers to make a Q by filling in each circle with a dot.  From

Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 We talked about the /q/ sound in queen and colored the Qq's. This is from

1+1+1=1. 

 Here we colored a quilt for Qq from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 We put quilt shape patterns together from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 We attempted to trace the letter Qq from Confessions of a Homeschooler and then

we colored it.

 We found pictures that started with Qq and tried to color them a specific color from

1+1+1=1.

 We found all the Qq's on the queen and colored them from 1+1+1=1.

And we matched queens from a grayscale picture to a colored picture from

1+1+1=1.

We learned and did activities with the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill.

We colored a picture that goes with the rhyme.

We sequenced the rhyme and you can find it here.

We talked about the occupation of a construction worker.

We talked about what a construction worker does and then we lowered and lifted

a flag to signal to traffic that it was safe and not safe to go.

We rolled and covered tools a construction worker might use.  The first one who covered the

board was our game winner.

We found the construction vehicle that was different.

We colored the hammer by reading color words. You can get this here.

We matched construction vehicles.

 And we did a dot-to-dot bulldozer.

And we began our President's Day activities learning about Abe Lincoln.

We made a paper piecing of Abe Lincoln while we discussed facts about

Abe Lincoln.  Some of the facts were glued onto our paper piecing.

We made a log cabin for Abe Lincoln.

Hope you enjoyed our week!  We had fun.
Best,
Rose