Since it was so nice today, we did a Leaf Art project. I got the idea from The Girlies Of Mt Hope. The kids had a blast collecting leaves, then making their creations. Here are our finished products:A Leaf monster with lots of eyes, the numbers are how much he…
Here he is working on his dry erase numbers booklet. You can download a copy of my butterfly numbers writing practice here. And practicing blends is a great way to improve reading skills. He’s doing just the one’s he’s learned thus far. You can download a copy of my blend…
We’d planned on going to the pumpkin patch for our Letter P week, unfortunately weather (snow) made this impossible, so we finally went this weekend. Actually its a whole harvest festival thing and we were so tired by the time we got done that we didn’t even get pumpkins! LOL!…
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I found a great idea on The Snail’s Tail. She really does a good job of explaining it on her site, but I’ll try to do it here too. The idea is to practice the consonants, blends, digraphs and common word families. I have to admit I was a tad…
We did our Very Hungry Caterpillar Game and book today. It was a huge hit. As I read the story she laced her pieces on. My 2nd grader filled out the graph just for fun and helped her sister find the correct pieces. You can download the Hungry Caterpillar lacing…
We did a color mixing project today. I got the idea from The Pioneer Woman’s homeschooling blog. I provided them with Blue, Red and Yellow water, and then gave them ‘recipe’ cards to work from. Just because I don’t trust my kids with that large a quantity of water, I…
Hi everyone! Welcome to the Letter B! Naturally after finishing with caterpillars last week, butterflies just seemed the right way to go. I did go a little overboard with this, so brace yourself! Letter B Memory Verse: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Acts 16:31…
I’d made these file folder games awhile back and forgot about them! Just remembered and put them in boxes. I like this idea because its more like playing a game than working! This one is a beginning sounds game, I don’t remember which book I got it from, but this…
Day 3 of our Letter C submersion class and its going well. I asked her today and she has no clue what letter she’s working on…seriously? We even sing the song everyday “The C says “Ka” the C says “Ka” every letter makes a sound the C says “Ka”! I’m…
