I’m going back through all the resources I bookmarked online, and getting in all the books we had ordered to finish up nutrition. Also finishing up the multitude of St. Patrick’s Day pages I had printed. I don’t think I’d even gotten through half of them before we ran out of paper, so I’ll have to go back next year I guess and catch up. Then perhaps we’ll take a short spring break and get some ‘work’ done around the house before delving into GARDENING!
Here’s a few of the additional resources we used this week:
Movie: How did that get in my lunchbox? –– this is a great overview, only about 15 minutes for the whole thing and hits on a lot of topics would be a great introductory video.
USDA My Plate Food Groups Picture — this resource we used to talk about current governmental food suggestions and how they differed from how the pyramid was structured when we (as parents) grew up and how it’s different now– my 6 year old pointed out that there was NOT a sweets group on the plate, and I agreed and mentioned casually obesity, heart disease and cooking at home, things that are on the rise or decline because of healthy or unhealthy eating, trends in food, etc.
CDC Nutrition Game: this was a good game, easy enough to click on the different options and get information as to the food group and how much to eat of it daily. No scoring, just information.
List of Healthy Grains: this explained various grains and what they are used to make, we talked about different recipes using grains.
My Plate Worksheets: we did various worksheets out of this site about food groups, gardening, etc. I wish I’d seen these earlier, but good for any time.
Curious George Goes To the Ice Cream Parlor (KIT with book and games)
Reading Together:
Splish Splash by Kessler
Monster Knows MORE THAN, LESS THAN (Math) by Capote
Topical books:
Lives and Times Ben Cohen The Founder of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream (biography) by M.C. Hall
Bubble and Squeak The Great Cheese Hunt by Fowkes
Steve and Wessley in The Ice Cream Shop by Morris
All About Dairy by Parker
Extra Cheese, Please, Mozzarella’s Journey From Cow to Pizza by Peterson
3 year old:
Finished writing 19-31 numbers on March
Traced and wrote letter Z worksheets with dry erase
Number maze recognizing numbers 1-20
How many in all (counting chickens) worksheet
Colored pictures and wrote spring words on spring coloring pages
Matching lists of words with images (dry erase) to sound out words
Spring dot to dot
’15’ worksheet practice writing, graphing and counting up to 15
6 year old:
Silent E worksheet page (write common words like dime, five, note, tape)
History of St. Pat’s Day Crossword Puzzle (had to look up answers in book)
AI/AY worksheet completing the word with the ‘a’ sound combination of letters
Introduction to pronouns and completed a ‘noun or pronoun’ worksheet
Continuing to work on telling analog time, including elapsed time, used ‘Time Tracking’ 2nd grade packet from education.com
Skip counting worksheets and putting numbers in order wksht
+/- worksheets and color by number
Sight word color by number worksheets (St Pat’s day themed)
Independent Reading:
Leprechaun in Late Winter by Osborne
Pirates Don’t Wear Pink Sunglasses by Dadey
Junie B Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus by Park
Cavemen DO Drive School Buses by Jones/Dadey
Four Mice Deep in the Jungle by Geronimo Stilton
A Cheese Colored Camper by Geronimo Stilton
Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman by Simon
Esme the Ice Cream Fairy by Meadows
St. Patrick’s Day from the Black Lagoon by Thaler
Mermaid Tales: A Royal Tea by Dadey
The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword by Mazer
Cliffhangers: Sliced by Weiner
Patrick Patron Saint of Ireland by dePaola
Nancy Clancy Super Sleuth by O’Connor
Ready to Fly: Silverlake Fairy School #3 by Lindsay
A-Z Mysteries The Runaway Racehorse by Roy
Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye by Stilton
Scooby Doo The Apple Thief by Herman
A-Z Mysteries The Yellow Yacht by Roy
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