Preschool - Week 23 - Letter V

This week was brought to you by the Letter V and the Number 40. :-)

Books:
Visiting the Vet: Learning the V Sound by Carson, Janet.
Vicky the Vet by Brooks, Felicity.
Vacation Under the Volcano by Osborne, Mary Pope
Earthquakes (Natural Disasters) by Michele Ingber Drohan
Volcanoes by Leslie Dinaberg

Here's what we covered:

Language Arts:
- Letter of the week craft: (a vase, with flowers cut out of magazine pages)

- Worksheets (Initial Sound V, KidsLearningStation, Kidzone, HandwritingForKids)

Math:
- Number 40 worksheet
- Larger/Smaller Numbers Worksheet

Science:
- Volcanoes - yes, the long awaited volcano week has arrived! The girls have been looking forward to this for so long. We read books, watched videos, and of course, did some volcano experiments!
- Experiments:
First, we broke out the kit that Aunt Sharon got the girls for Christmas:

It has materials for two volcanic eruptions - one is to be a mock "underwater" volcano, using a test tube, and the other one involves creating your own volcanic island and using a dropper to make it erupt. These were very colorful and exciting!
We also made a traditional volcano, using a dixie cup, alum foil and paper plate.





- Videos:


- Science Journal page:

Social Studies:
- Veterinarians (read books about vets and talked about their job)

Sight Words:
- vase, volcano, very, violin

Snack:
- Vanilla wafers

Music:
- Vivaldi (violin music to boot!)

Sun Bather

We've all enjoyed the wonderful weather to count us down to spring - even Sadie.

Preschool - Week 22 - Letter U

This week was brought to you by the Letter U and the Number 30. :-)

Here's what we covered:

Language Arts:
- Letter of the week craft: Umbrella
C learned to draw a raindrop (make a "J" and a line to close it up)


- Handwriting worksheets (KidsLearningStation, Kidzone, Handwriting for Kids
- FunFonix Build-a-word Worksheet - Short U sound

Math:
Since we've made it through numbers 1 - 20, we are going to cover the remaining numbers by 10s.

- Number 30 worksheet
- Intro to counting by ten's (I made our own "ten sticks" by having C put together three sticks of ten Trio blocks each. She counted them by ones and then I showed her how to add them together to make 20 and then 30.)

Science:
- Urial (couldn't find any books on urials, so we turned to the internet and looked at pictures of urials and read some basic facts about them. Google images shows a lot of "trophy urials" so that led to a discussion about hunters. We measured how tall an urial is with the tape measure and looked up their habitat on our globe.)
- Science Journal page:

Social Studies:
- United States (read book, talked about the 50 states, found USA on globe, worked on a new USA puzzle)

- Watched a cute video from the library:

Sight Words:
- umbrella, up, until, under

Snack:
- Meant to make Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, but didn't get a chance! :(

Music:
- Sir Victor Uwaifo


Bible Stories:
* Parable of the Lost Sheep

Preschool - Week 21 - Letter T

Once more, things got busy around here and I decided to spend two weeks covering letter T. Hopefully this weekend I'll get Letter U figured out so we can get back on track!

So, these past two weeks are brought to you by the Letter T and the Number 20. :-)

Here's what we covered:

Language Arts:
- Letter of the week craft (train tracks):

- Handwriting worksheets (Initial Sound T, Kidzone, Handwriting for Kids)

Math:
- Number 20 worksheet
- Counting worksheet
- Played with the Tangrams some more

Science:
- Tigers (read tiger books, watched a tiger clip on the web)
* We made the cutest craft ever! Here are K and C painting their paper bags:

The finished tiger puppet:

C decided it needed a tail (and so did she):

and she (completely on her own) added these adorable legs and whiskers!

- Science Journal page:

Social Studies:
- Thailand
* Couldn't get any age-appropriate books this week, so we read some parts of books on Thailand and looked at the pictures
* Learned about how the children there are taught respect for their elders. Even younger children have to say "big sister" instead of their older siblings name.
* Practiced the wai, which is a bow of respect.
* The best part was when C received a postcard from Tori - FROM THAILAND! What a super-fun coincidence. She LOVED it.
* Made a Thailand flag (C's idea!):

Sight Words:
- tree, this, that, to, turtle

Snack:
- Turtles (the candy kind...)

Music:
- Tchaikovski

Bible Stories:
- Esau and Jacob