Preschool - Week 11 - Letter J

This week was brought to you by the Letter J and the Number 10. :-)



Other Books:
Jelly Beans for Sale
Jellyfish (Blastoff! Readers: Oceans Alive)
Jellyfish (True Books: Animals)
Jellies: The Life of Jellyfish
The Jellybeans and the Big Dance

Here's what we covered:

Language Arts:
- Letter of the week craft:


- Handwriting worksheets (jellyfish, Jesus)
- J Sound worksheets

Math:
- Number 10 worksheet

- Counting worksheet
- Jellybean counting

Science:
- Jellyfish (read books and make a jellyfish craft)

- Science Journal page:


Social Studies:
* Japan
- Read books on Japan
- Made some origami



- Practiced with chopsticks

- Ate a meal Japanese style

- My attempt at "bento:"


Sight Words:
* just, Jesus, jump, jelly, jam

Snack:
* Jellybeans

Music:
* Scott Joplin


Bible Stories:
* Creation, Adam Names the Animals
- Made animal thumbprint drawings:

My hair cut

So, it's been a while since my last haircut.

It's gotten so long that I knew it was time to do something. So at Dionne's house today, Kristi, Dionne and Jen helped me decide to try something shorter...and Jen made it happen! :-)


Before:

After:

Back:

My locks of love:

Preschool - Week 10 - Letter I

This week was brought to you by the Letter I and the Number 9. :-)

This was a weak week (haha) for me - I will explain more in another post. We didn't use many books this week.

Here are the ones we did read:
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
Dream Wolf
The Apache Indians (Native Peoples)
Tacky the Penguin

Language Arts:
- Letter of the week craft:
- Handwriting worksheets (ice cream, igloo)
- Initial Sounds worksheet (long i)

Math:
- Number 9 worksheets (bees, boxes)
- Inches
* Measured different objects to determine how many inches long they were and recorded the lengths on a note page:


Science:
- Ice
* As I alluded to above, I was having book issues at the library. So the closest we could get to a book on ice was Tacky the Penguin, which is mostly about being tacky, but did include the word "ice" several times. :-)
* We did several ice experiments this week in lieu of books.
   - First we did the old trick of using a string to pick up an ice cube (put salt on it).
   - Then we did some Ice Excavating (from Chasing Cheerios)


   - Finally, we made ice cubes in the freezer:


- Science Journal page:


Social Studies:
- Native American Indians
   * Went to a homeschool class on Plains/Woodlands Indians at the Children's Museum.
   * Had a discussion about Indians, viewed artifacts, watched a performance of drum songs and dancing, got to go inside a Plains Indian tepee, made a craft tepee:




Sight Words:
* In, It, Is, Ice

Snack:
* Ice Cream

Music:



Bible Stories:
* Abraham and Lot
* Abraham and Sarah wait for a baby

Preschool - Week 9 - Letter H

This week was brought to you by the Letter H and the Number 8. :-)



Here's what we covered:

Language Arts:
- Letter of the week craft:


- Handwriting worksheets (heart, hippo)
- H Sound worksheets

Math:
- Number 8 worksheets (ice cream, traceable 8)
- What Doesn't Belong worksheet
- Concept of Hours
   We made a clock and introduced the concept of telling time by looking at the hour hand and minute hand. Her favorite part was decorating it, of course!




Science:
- Horses
* Read books (see above plus: The Usborne Book of Horses and Ponies and My First Horse and Pony Book)
* Got to feed, groom and ride horses with friends!





- Science Journal page:


Social Studies:
- Hawaii (read some books, watched a bit of some travel videos, made a sticker page from the Aloha Hawaii Activity Book)

Sight Words:
* Has, Home, Had, Horse, Hand

Snack:
Honey

Music:
Putamayo Kids Hawaiian Playground



Bible Stories:
* Jesus Calms the Storm

Game/Activity:
Horseback Riding