Our theme this week
was "Going Green" and we focused on the number 25, and
reviewed the letters C, D and E, and hexagons.
We read this week: Duck and Goose by Tad Hills
The Story of the Root Children by Sibylle Von Olfers
Living Sunlight by Molly Bang
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
My Garden by Kevin Henkes
Our question of the week was "How can you 'Go Green'" It was such a strange saying to my kids that some of these answers are hilarious!
For our theme of the week, we made Earth Sun-catchers using wax paper and crayon. They almost glow when the sun shines through them!
We also made recycle themed collages and talked about why recycling is better for the planet then just throwing something away.
I already know that my kids love the newer movie version of the Lorax, so I wanted to show them the original. (Be warned! There is some not nice name calling... chalk it up to being from the 70's I guess...)
We also wrote in our journals this week about ways that we could help the planet. We brainstormed a list, and then the kids picked what they were going to do.
We planted seeds!
"Reduce Reuse Recycle
Are words that we all know
We have to save our planet
So we can live and grow
We might be only children
We have to try, you’ll see
We will save our planet
It starts with you and me!"
We also used our math boxes to help us count to 25. This is a great way to really get kids to learn that each number stands for something.
For
our letter activities, we reviewed writing and finding the letters that we are talking about, C, D and E. These pages came from Letters for Little Learners.
We Celebrated "C" with a cake full of c pictured candles. Cut and paste projects are so fun because my kids can do them now completely on their own and they are so proud of themselves! This project came from Letter of the Week- Book 1.
From Sounds Like Fun, we did the "Elephant Exercise" It was really fun to bend and stretch and swing our trunk, all while listening for the sounds that the letter E makes.
The
letter of the week books have pages that you can make a book into. I
picked from both to get my "favorites". Each week, we'll work on these
pages, and each child will end up with an alphabet book at the end of
the year. I like to do these pages, because not only do they get more
practice writing the letter, but they also have to finish the sentence
on the page, which is really cool. It gets them thinking!
This week the "C" page came from Book 1, the "D" page came from Book 2, and the "E" page came from Book 1.
We also worked more on recognizing our review letters in the tongue twisters from Alphabet and Counting. We used this book to turn our letters into fun animals, but on the pages is also a little tongue twister. I printed it large and made a picture, then laminated them with contact paper. Using wet erase markers, we take turns finding the letters hidden!
We kept working on our sight words! Every morning we go over around 10 of them. Once
we've mastered them, they will go on our sight word wall! So exciting! We're working our way through the 220 Dolch sight word list.
Here is what we have mastered so far!
Speaking of sight words, from Confessions of a HomeSchooler, I got these great sight word pages. We continued this week with the word "do".
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