Weekend Happenings:
This weekend’s happenings seemed to stem a lot from a GoodReads Preview book that I read and passed down to my 6 year old. It’s called Time Flight. Briefly, a boy loses a paper airplane and goes on a marvelous adventure. Before she had even finished reading it…. Saturday the kids learned about and colored paper airplanes and did tests flights. Sunday night the kids drew pictures of beaches, and learned about folding paper boats and hats. They really get a lot of value added fun when dad decides to teach them something, too. Does that fall under art, aeronautics, origami? Hard to say, but they had a blast. The 6 year old learned a few things about coloring in pictures as well, such as losing details in the background because you decide to color the whole background… ahem… she’s messed up quite a few gorgeous pictures by scribbling the sky blue.. hopefully she learns this time, because she has quite a lot of imagination and it looks nice on the page when she tries hard. I realize there are no mistakes in art, but really when you have something so pretty and basically ‘blue’ it all out so you can’t tell what anything is… it’s just a mess. But.. it’s also a learning experience and hopefully a good one. She’s learning technique and that’s what counts.
So obviously weekend reading was Time Flight for my 6 year old.
She also read the scripture at church. This continues to impress people. She only went over it once right before hand, and although I didn’t go (I hate the ice and snow), her dad said she did a good job and only flubbed one word. I’ve seen adults do worse, so no complaints there. I’m glad she isn’t ‘backward’ and can’t speak to people or a crowd (I snort in mirth)… anyway…
We discussed different foods and Sunday night they helped according to ability to prep some foods for dinner: opening cans, using a pizza wheel to cut tortillas up for chips, etc. We talked about the food groups and what nutrition was in them, and had the 6 year old read the food label and identify the ‘good stuff’ in the can of beans, and how we can make ‘restaurant food’ at home.
Monday:
Reading Together:
My q book by Moncure
My U book by Moncure
The Magic Pasta Pot (play) by Hall
Why Should I eat well by Llewellyn
Sign Language: alphabet Q and U
Art: Trace, cut, glue-create a pizza out of construction paper
3 year old:
Music: P-I-Z-Z-A (like BINGO), On top of Spaghetti, Head/Shoulders/Knees/Toes
Letters Q and U phonetic sounds
Math: Writing letters 1-20
Alphabet: Trace A-Z, write a-z
Color by letter page
6 year old:
Independent reading:
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin
Writing: M-F Dinner menu including all the food groups
Spelling (grain group words)- read, write, remember [bread, grain, food, group, pasta, rice]
Alphabet: Write upper and lower case
Math: Finish subtraction page (color by answer)
Macaroni Math: Estimate pieces of 2 kinds of pasta needed to cover a ‘pizza piece’ , then using subtraction to figure out how close the guess was.
WE GOT OUR NEW PRINTER AND IT IS AWESOME. WELL WORTH THE EXPENSE! THIS HOME SCHOOL THING JUST WENT PRO!
Tuesday:
3 year old:
Alphabet:
Letter Q and U worksheets
Trace upper case letters
Math:
Trace numbers 1-20
Count the (angry bird) piggies and color the page
candy graphing page (with actual graph!)
Games with mom:
Picnic Basket Game (collect cards)
5 Senses sorting game
Multimedia/Tech:
Finished reading part of BRAINZY (Pre-K level of education.com game site) via ‘reading’ various stories online, answering questions, recognizing letters, etc.
Checked progress on math section, completed one small section that had been started (numbers 1-10) in January.
6 year old:
Independent Reading:
The Secret of Cacklefur Castle by Geronimo Stilton
Paws Off, Cheddarface by Geronimo Stilton
Here’s Hank by Henry Winkler “Bookmarks are People Too” –> Check this series out if your kids are dyslexic or have troubles flipping letters, the font is specially made to make it easier to read!
Alphabet:
Write upper case letters
Write Lower case letters
Math:
Write numbers 1-50
Graphing candy page (this time with actual graphing page, yeah!- Krystal’s Kreations from teachers pay teachers – freebie)
Writing/Language:
2 color by sight word pages
6 food word list (she recalled how to spell all of them without needing to look at them, yeah!)
Write the nouns page spelling out VALENTINE [she had a lot of trouble with this, mostly the ‘I don’t feel like trying trouble’]
Write results of experiment
Together:
Candy heart science experiment based on download from Curriculum Castle via teachers pay teachers freebie- check this out, there’s pins to the observation sheets and graphing sheets mentioned above.
Wednesday:
Oral A-Z food list during breakfast
Reading Together:
Growing Vegetable Soup by Ehlert
Eating the alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A-Z by Ehlert
3 year old:
Eat a rainbow coloring page
Food Pre-K learning packet (page 1-5)
Q and U alphabet worksheets
6 year old:
Eat a rainbow coloring page
Food themed Math Grade 1 workbook (page 1-7)
Life Science by Mr. K {Chapter 35] – read and completed 3 worksheets on nutrition
Color by numbers double digit math addition with regrouping/carrying
Independent Reading:
The Search for Sunken Treasure by Stilton
Field Trip to Niagara Falls by Stilton
Multimedia/Tech:
Brainzy Pre-K math from education.com
Thursday:
Together:
Multimedia/Tech: Video on George Washington Carver (biography-Inventors of the World series) describing his life and work with peanuts (meat group introduction).
3 year old:
Sort pictures into T and U categories
Pre-K learning packet- finished!- this including graphing (she did surprisingly well!), color by number, etc.
U and Q alphabet worksheets
6 year old:
Math:
Writing numbers to 50
1st grade math packet- finished (addition, some subtraction, etc).
Art:
Drawing fruit pictures (from education.com)
Language/Writing:
Long A worksheet — she needs more practice with this skill, or she’s faking not knowing that Sn-A-il has a long A sound– so I’ll hunt for more of these!
Writing dessert menu for a week
Writing down 6 spelling/vocabulary words
Home Ec: Kneading dough for fresh bread!
Multimedia/Tech: Brainzy educational games
Independent reading: The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining by Mazer
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Nita
Oh what a busy week for the little ones! I’m hopping in from Weekly Wrap Up!