Saturday, January 29, 2011

Little Acorns Train Station Field Trip

Photos of the Little Acorns Train Station Field Trip

More Valentine Photos...













Pride and Prejudice...Book review...

I am trying to work my way through the classics and thought I would share my feelings about this book.


or you can download it free for your kindle...

After I finished the book I realized that I really enjoyed it and I do plan on reading it again. However I am new to classics and at times I was bored. The constant conversation bothered me. I know that as I read more of Jane Austen's I will probably get used to all the dialogue. But it was hard to follow at times. 
I am now reading Jane Eyre which I am finding easier to read.

Calendar Time...

I printed up a bunch of fun things to use during calendar time. I then cut them out and mounted them on cardstock and laminated them. I use this laminater...
with these refills...

I ordered velcro dots to put all the labels on and a magnet strip to put on the back of each one so that I can put it one a magnetic white board. I am still waiting on them. I will post a picture of the final product soon.


I found this Weather chart at Dollar Tree

I downloaded this at homeschool highway but I don't think it is available any longer.

You can download this at Mrs. Meacham's 
You can get this at Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 You can get this at Confessions of a Homeschooler.
You can download this at Mrs. Meacham's .

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You can download this at 1+1+1=1.

I can't remember where I got this. Does anybody know?

You can download this at 1+1+1=1.

You can download it at Mama Jenn's.

You can download this at Mrs. Meacham's 

You can download these on the LDS website.

You can download these on the LDS website.

You can get an address and phone number sheet at Confessions of a Homeschooler.

You can get this over at Homeschool Creations.

You can get this over at Homeschool Creations.

 You can get this over at Homeschool Creations.
You can download this at 1+1+1=1.

You can download this at 1+1+1=1.

You can download this at 1+1+1=1.

You can download this at 1+1+1=1.

You can download this at 1+1+1=1.

You can download this at 1+1+1=1.

You can download this at 1+1+1=1.

 You can download the color words at 1+1+1=1.
You can get this at Confessions of a Homeschooler.

You can get this over at Homeschool Creations.

You can get this at Confessions of a Homeschooler.

You can download this at 1+1+1=1.




What my child is reading...



Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson- This was my favorite book as a child and I still love to read it to my children. It is about  a boy that draws an adventure with his crayon. He gets homesick and finally finds his bed.




Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Dr. Seuss's Book of Wonderful Noises by Dr. Suess- This is a good book for kids with a lot of energy. They get to make all kinds of sounds.




Berenstains' A Book by Stan & Jan Berenstain- This is a good book for the letter A in a letter of the week curriculum.




Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff- This book is about a dinosaur that comes to life and plays with Danny for the day.




One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian- A fox gets his tail cut off for stealing milk and the woman says that if he replaces the milk she will sew his tail back on. He asks a cow for milk and the cow says he can have milk if he gets her some grain. And so the story goes everybody wants something in return until finally one person gives without anything in return. The first page seemed harsh. I wasn't expecting it. I did like the message at the end.




The Big Shiny Sparkly First Words Book by Susie Lacome- A fun book for Toddlers, it has a lot of pictures and flaps on every page.




Chicka Chicka Boom Boom- we read this every week to go with our Letter of the Week. Nathan calls it Chicken Back Boom Boom- A fun book about all of the letters. They climb up a coconut tree until it falls over and they all fall down.




Helen Oxenbury's Big Baby Book- This is a very simple board book but my kids have always loved it.



Mrs. Brice's Mice- a favorite from when I was a kid- Mrs. Brice has 25 mice. 24 do the same thing but one is always doing something different.



Week in Review #3

Calendar Time:
This week we started our new revamped Calendar Time. Unfortunately the magnets and velcro I ordered have not arrived yet. So we just held up the different things and did them individually. In the future I will put them up on a white board. I have a lot of pictures of our new things. We had a shape and color each day. We checked the weather. Counted the days we have been in school. We talked about the date and day. We also practiced a song and a scripture verse and several other things.

Math: 
They did lessons using Math U See and Time4Learning.

Language Arts: 
We played on Starfall. Rylee did lessons on Time4Learning.
We did a few lessons from "Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons". 

We read two Bob Books...



Our letter of the week this week was the letter Cc for Caterpillar. I will do a post with pictures of the different activities we did with this.
Nathan is still working on his first name in all capital letters and Rylee is working on her first and last name with Capital and Lowercase letters.

Science: 
In our Apologia Astronomy book we read about the Sun.




We also read: Uncover the human body- Nathan's favorite book right now, he looks at it several times a day.



For Geography we have been pointing things out on the United States Map. We also used the Tag reading system United States Map and World Map which is interactive and fun. I have a really fun Geography unit that we will start soon.



Art: 
We colored several times. We also did a few projects for Letter of the Week. We did Beautiful Junk. 

Gospel Study: 
I read from the Old Testament. We practiced memorizing the verse Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. We practiced singing a song from the Children's songbook "I am a child of God". I read from the children's Old Testament Stories. 

Family Read Aloud: 
Prince Caspian- Yes we are still reading this. I keep falling asleep after two pages. I really like the book but I think pregnancy is making me tired.




Picture books: (the ones I can remember anyway :) )
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom- we read this every week to go with our Letter of the Week. Nathan calls it Chicken Back Boom Boom. :)
One Fine Day
Harold and the Purple Crayon- my all time favorite book as a child.
Berenstains' A Book
Mr. Brown can Moo! Can you?
Danny and the Dinosaur- another of my favorites as a child
Helen Oxenbury's Big Baby Book
The Big Shiny Sparkly First Words Book
The Farm
Mrs. Brice's Mice- a favorite from when I was a kid


Books on CD: (We need to do a library run- mostly the same as last week)
Pippi Longstocking
The Magicians Nephew
The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe
Tales of the fourth grade Nothing
Super Fudge



Sign Language: We watch Signing Time videos all the time. These are great!

Unit Study: We didn't do a Unit Study this week but I am planning one for Valentine's Day!

Homeschool Group:
We did a tour of the Everett Bus Station and then went on a bus ride. We finished by playing at McDonald's.

Learning through Play:
Games
Puzzles
Legos
Triangle magnet blocks that form a cube- Nathan can't get enough play with these.
Wendy's had these linking toys in their happy meals and Nathan has been building everything he can think of with them.
And much more...

I will post photos of our week soon.









Thursday, January 27, 2011

Valentine's Day Portraits...

My kids are the very hardest kids to photograph. They absolutely refuse. I have to beg and bribe. And even then it is unlikely. With that said... here they are... not perfect, but with my mommy goggles on they are. :)





Saturday, January 22, 2011

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