Preschool - Week 20 - Letter S

This week was brought to you by the Letter S and the Number 19. :-)

Books:

How Spider Tricked Snake by Benitez, Mirna.
Sea Stars by Herriges, Ann.

Here's what we covered:

Language Arts:
- Letter of the week craft:

- Handwriting worksheets (spider, Kidzone S, KidsLearningStation)
- S Sound worksheet (homemade)
- I've been printing out some simple coloring pages for E to do while C works on letters. She's really improving on her coloring skills:


Math:
- Number 19 worksheet
- Made "Stamp Books" where the girls each put the correct number of stamps on each page of their book. E got 1-6 and C had 7-12.

- Subtraction (C LOVES subtraction! She caught on the the concept very quickly and enjoyed each activity that we did. I try to tell her often that she is good at math to build her confidence and enjoyment of math.)
     * Watched subtraction video
     * Talked about "number sentences" (x - y = ?)
     * Used little toys to do simple subtraction problems
     * Did a subtraction worksheet
     * Subtraction puzzles




Science:
- Sea Stars (read a couple great books on sea stars)
- Made a sea star craft: (click HERE and scroll to very bottom of page)


- Science Journal page:

Social Studies:
- Spain (didn't have any great books at the library, so I got one that we just looked at the pictures and talked about Spain. Talked about some Spanish words that we know, and watched some flamenco dancers on YouTube).

Sight Words:
- she, see, some, soon, star

Snack:
- Skittles

Music:
- Schubert

Bible Stories:
- Saul's conversion, Adam and Eve's Bad Choice
- This was very interesting to talk to the girls about Satan and his involvement in the fall. It's a topic that is not talked about in Sunday school...
- Did a craft to make the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil: