Preschool - Week 26 - Letter Y

This week was brought to you by the Letter Y and the Number 70. :-)

Here's what we covered:

Language Arts:
- Letter of the week craft (yarn art):

- Handwriting worksheets (KidsLearningStation, KidZone, HandwritingForKids)
- Y coloring page for E
- Y Sound worksheet

Math:
- Number 70 worksheet
- Count by 10's worksheet

Science:
- Yak (read about yaks online)
  * Wikipedia
  * EnchantedLearning.com
  * Yak Facts and Pictures
- Science Journal page:

Social Studies:
- Yellowstone National Park (this kinda crosses over with science...)
  * Read books on Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park (Going Places) by Cari Meister
Yellowstone National Park : Vision Books Series by Jenny Markert
  * Located Yellowstone on the map of the USA
  * Watched a short video segment on Yellowstone

Sight Words:
- yellow, you, yes, yo-yo

Snack:
- Yogurt pops


Music:
- Yodeling! (found some fun yodeling examples online)
  * 11 yr old yodeller
  * Franz Lang

Bible Stories:
- Zacchaeus

Activity:
- Visited a yarn shop

Preschool - Week 25 - Letter X

This week was brought to you by the Letter X and the Number 60. :-)

Here's what we covered:

Language Arts:
- Letter of the week craft:

E helped make a xylophone X this week, too! C loved using the hole punch.



- Handwriting worksheets (KidsLearningStation, KidZone, Handwriting for Kids)
- X Sound worksheet
- Coloring page for E

Math:
- Number 60 worksheet
- What Doesn't Belong? worksheet
- Counting worksheet

Science:
- foX (read books about foxes, talked about different kinds of foxes and colored a red fox diagram)

- Science Journal page:

Social Studies:
- taXi driver (talked about what a taxi is and how some people have a job to drive a taxi. Then I taught the girls how to hail a taxi and we played "taxi cab" together, where we took turns being the taxi driver and driving each other to various locations.) :)

Sight Words:
- fix, fox, next, box, six

Snack:
- pretzels in an X shape

Music:
- saXophone music (yes, I subjected them to KennyG!!!)

Bible Stories:
- Love One Another

Activities:
- X Marks the Spot Game (each girl made 5 "x's" on Post-it notes and took turns putting them on objects in the basement while the other one hid. Then they had to come out and find all 5 "x's".)

- Letter X color by number worksheet (Confessions of a Preschooler)
- Went to Children's Musuem and Conner Prairie
- Saw some oXen:

Preschool - Week 24 - Letter W

This week was brought to you by the Letter W and the Number 50. :-)



Here's what we covered:

Language Arts:
- Letter of the week craft:

- Handwriting worksheets (KidsLearningStation, Kidzone, Handwriting For Kids)
- W Coloring page (for E)

Math:
- Number 50 worksheet
- Counting worksheet

Science:
- Wind (read books about wind, and made windsocks)
* Made windsocks:



- Science Journal page:


Social Studies:
- Writing (talked about writers of books (authors) and looked at photos of authors on our books, wrote a letter to a friend)

Sight Words:
- who, what, when, was, why

Snack:
- Watermelon!


Music:
- Richard Wagner

Bible Stories:
- The Widow's Mite

Game/Activity:
- Flying a Kite!