Jacks Academy: BFIAR–Angus Lost / Dog’s Colorful Day

As we came upon letter D week, I thought this would be the perfect time to Row the book Angus Lost. Sammy loved the book, but since it was about a dog, and letter D was for dog, he begged to do the book Dog’s Colorful Day. I figured they would go nicely together, so we rowed both of these books.

Angus lost is a story about a dog who wonders away from home and get’s lost. Dog’s Colorful Day is about a dog who has one spot, and as he goes about his day, he get’s spots in many different colors and in different ways. Both stories are really cute, and offer many learning opportunities.

To kick off our letter D week, we did our Letter D page from All About Reading Pre-Level 1. He used bird seed to represent dog food on his picture.

We then did a few pages from the Animal ABC’s Unit from 1+1+1=1. If you can’t tell by now, Sammy was really into the color grey and painting. Since Sammy was painting, Liam wanted to paint too, so Hailey set him up with some eatable finger paints, and tried to get him to say the name of the colors. He did say “Red”, but that’s it.

The next day we read each book and both boys sat to listen. Sammy enjoyed counting to ten with the book Dogs Colorful day. We then worked on Colors, and direction (under, over, behind, above, beside..) using some printables from Homeschool Creations. These activities also allowed him to work on his gluing skills. Just for fun he pulled out his cutting skills busy bag.

We met dome friends at the park, and made them all dog ears, and had a little fun. We pretended that they had lost their snack, and had to use one of their five senses to find it. Dogs use their nose (sense of smell) to find things. So the kids sniffed around the park until they located the brownies (GF). They were so cute in their dog ears.

We enjoyed learning a little bit of sign language though that was mainly for the older kids. We also used the felt pieces we got at a busy bag swap to retell the Dog’s Colorful Day story.