Preschool - Week 12 - Letter K

This week was brought to you by the Letter K and the Number 11. :-)


Here's what we covered:

Language Arts:
- Letter of the week craft:


- Handwriting worksheets (kite, printing practice)
- Sight Word Match-Up worksheet

Math:
- Number 11 worksheet
- More or Less worksheet
- Counting K worksheet
- Played with tangrams

Science:
- Kangaroos
   * Read Books: (see above plus: Kangaroos (Animals Are Fun))
   * Made a kangaroo craft:




* Science Journal page:


Social Studies:
* South Korea (read non-fiction books, looked up Korea on the globe, read some Korean folktales)

Sight Words:
* key, king, kiss, kite,kitchen

Snack:
* Kabobs - the girls had fun making some apple and cheese kabobs. We will definitely do this one again!



Music:
* Aram Khachaturian


Bible Stories:
* Creation continued, and Samuel annoints David

Craft-Fail?

I have a lot of crafty ideas and grandiose plans, but they don't always turn out as planned. I found a link to this beautiful wreath made from a coat hanger and round ornaments.

I attempted to make my own with some black-Friday bargains. Not quite what I had envisioned, but it will have to do for now:

Advent Calendar

I'd seen this idea floating around the Interent and thought it would be fun to try out this year. I already had the mini-muffin pan, scrapbook paper and stickers. All I bought was some magnetic paper from Hobby Lobby. I borrowed Dionne's Cricut to cut out all the circles, ran them through my Xyron sticker-machine and attached them to the magnetic paper. Then all I needed to do was cut them out, put on the stickers and put it together.


To fill it up, I wrote out some fun activities on paper slips (i.e. bake Christmas cookies, drive around to see Christmas lights, etc.) and also included some mini-ornaments for the girls.



Ideally this would be hanging from the wall, but the magnets are not strong enough to hold the little ornaments inside, when vertical. So far, it's a hit! And the best part is, I can reuse it for next year and still have the use of my muffin pan. :-)

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