I was awarded a "Liebster Blog" Award!

Today Jackie from over at "It's Elementary" sent me an award.  How exciting it was as this is my first award.  The award goes to blogs you follow that have less than 200 followers.  It was so nice of her to think of my site.

I have sent awards to the following sites:

All Star Kindergarten -she shares activities from her Kindergarten classroom

Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers -she shares many of the things going on in her daycare

Kozy Kids Family Childcare -she takes you into her daycare and the happenings

ABC's of Jess's House -she shares many of the activities she does with her daycare

A Child's Place -she makes wonderful preschool printables

Hope you will take the time to take a peek at these 5 sites.

Best,
Rose

Second Week of March 2012

This week we focused on letter Tt.  We did many activities to reinforce the letter.  Below is our older children's letter book and I forgot to take pictures of our tot book (sorry).

Letter Tt Book

 This is the cover.  We colored the letter Tt's and colored the tent.

 On the left we made our three-piece letter puzzles of upper and lowercase Tt.  We also colored tents with the letter Tt.  On the right we found the one that was different and did a pre-writing activity from Getting Ready for the Code Series.

 On the left we circled letters that were the same as the first one in the box and we drew lines from the tents to the Tt's.  We got these from Getting Ready for the Code Series.  We circled Tt's from

Confessions of a Homeschooler Letter Hunt.

 On the left we listened to clues to find the Tt picture and colored them according to directions. This is from the Getting Ready for the Code Series.   We also traced uppercase T's.  On the right we drew lines from the Tt-tag to pictures that begin with the /t/ sound.  This is from the Getting Ready for the Code Series.  We also traced lowercase t's.

 On the left we drew lines from the letter to the picture that begins with that letter sound.  This is from the Getting Ready for the Code Series.  We also traced/printed letter T's.  On the right we wrote the letter each picture began with.  This is from Getting Ready for the Code Series.  We also traced/printed letter t's.

 On the left we colored pictures that began with the /t/ sound red and the pictures that don't blue.  This is from First Phonics.  We also traced/printed letter T's.  On the right we pasted pictures that began with S or T in the appropriate place and printed the letter.  This is from First Phonics.  We also traced/printed letter t's.



We talked about the pet hamster and waterpainted a hamster.

We talked about farm animals.

We made farmer puppets.



We talked about the chicken family.

We fingerpainted eggs the girl needed to find.



We waterpainted hens.



We talked about ducks.

We made paper bag ducks.



We also did a few math skills. 

The younger children matched numbers from Childcareland.

The older children looked at graphs to determine which one is more.

 Hope you enjoyed our week.
Rose





First week of March 2012

I know it's a little late but here we go...

The first week of March we were introduced to the letter Ss.  As I have been doing we did a older children letter book and a tot letter book for my younger children.  Below is what our letter books looked like.

Letter Ss Book

This is the cover of our Ss Book.  We colored the Ss's and the sun.

On the left we put together our three piece letter puzzles and colored a sun by using

yellow for uppercase S and orange for lowercase s.  On the right we used Getting Ready

for the Code series to find the one that is different and some pre-writing practice.

 On the left we colored the parts of a sock that had a Ss in it and we circled the letters that

are like the one in the first box.  We also used Confessions of a Homeschoolers letter hunt for

letter Ss.

 On the left we colored pictures by listening to the clues to find the picture and following the

directions to color the pictures.  We also traced letter S's.  On the right we circled the letter

that the picture began with and we traced letter s's.

 On the left we drew lines from the picture to the letter on the line and we printed the

letter each picture began with from Getting Ready for the Code series.  On the right

we found the picture that begins with the first letter and colored it and we traced/printed

letter Ss's.

 On the left we said the picture name, circled the letter it began with, and printed the letter.  We

also traced and printed letter S.  On the right we said the picture name and printed the

letter the picture began with.  We also traced/printed the letter s.

Tot Letter Ss Book

 We used dot markers to make the letter Ss from Confessions of a Homeschooler

Letter of the Week series.

 We matched letters to spell the word snowman also from Confessions of a Homeschool

Letter of the Week series.

 We found pictures and colored them according to direction and colored the

letter Ss's from 1+1+1=1 tot printables.

 We found letter Ss's in a star from 1+1+1=1 tot printables.

 We traced letter Ss from Confessions of a Homeschooler Letter of the Week series.

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

We matched pictures that were grayscale under and glued colored on top from

1+1+1=1 tot printables.



We talked about how March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb.  We made the following lion/lamb project.

We met Rhonda Reporter and talked about the job of a reporter.  We used Rhonda through the month to teach other skills and concepts.

 This is Rhonda Reporter puppet which I got from High Reach Curriculum.

 We made reporter hats and microphones and pretended to be

reporters.

We also made reporter helicopters.  I forgot to take a picture of the final project but we

had fun playing with these.

Rhonda did a news story on pets and we talked about and made a dog and a cat.

And that was our week.  Hope you enjoyed it.

Best,

Rose