Letter Cc

Letter Cc for Colors of course! What better books than Harold and the Purple Crayon, and Dog’s Colorful Day?

 

I had intended to put up long sheets of plain white paper for the kids to color pictures on, but I found 50ft crayola color pages in the dollar spot at Target. The kids had a blast coloring on the wall.

We had a little fun with these giant Crayola sticker books we found.

Of course we needed a snack and “C” is for Cherries. YUM!

We set up C shaped race track for the boys to play cars on because “C” is for Cars you know.

The boys each located the correct color spot for Dog as I read the story Dog’s Colorful day.

The boys each made paper bag color books

In addition to these fun activities we read Harold and the Purple Crayon at least 10 times.   Sammy also worked on www.Starfall.com letter B

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Letter Bb

We had fun with Letter Bb. Though we are going to continue using Heart of Dakota’s Little Hands to Heaven, we really did not focus on that for this unit. The boys are loving the themes.

This week we did Batman/Bugs

Sammy and Liam both enjoyed  the Batman Pak I printed for them. Hailey tried her hand at instructing them and the responded really well to her. We may do more of that.

After we completed our Batman pak we changed to a bug theme. The boys love bugs and were thrilled with the activities. We kept it simple and fun. We started with a fun game of Swat the “B” Bug.

And that game turned into hide and find the bug letters.

I thought a little sensory play would be fun.

After the boys found all of their hidden bugs we counted them, then separated them by color, then by kind. Then they played freely with the bugs and sand. One word to the wise, DO THIS OUTDOORS. I’m still sweeping up sand. LOL.

Last but not least we read the letter Bb section from our many many alphabet books.

Simple but fun!

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Aa Apple

We started school last week. We decided to use Heart of Dakota’s Little Hands to Heaven this year with Sammy (4) and Liam (2). I have several goals for them each this year, and  I thought that the curriculum looked great and fit with our goals. Though we did get a curriculum for the boys, I will not be pushing them. That is actually something I like about the curriculum.

This week we focused on Creation. We decided to make a creation book. We completed 2 pages. I only have photo’s of 1 of the pages for some reason. Oh well.

Day 1 of creation we talked about how God made the heavens and the earth, but we talked about how God made something out of nothing. for the art project I drew the sun and a moon, and some starts on a piece of paper paper with white crayon, and then they painted the paper with black water color to reveal what had been drawn on the paper.

Day 2 he separated the waters from the waters.

 

We did an Aa is for apple theme, and completed many different cute activities. I was very proud of Sammy’s coloring sheet. He did more that just scribble. This was AMAZING for him.

Both of the boys had a different agenda than I did this week. I wanted to do the lessons in HOD. They wanted to do Busy bags. They won. LOL

We did work through our HOD Unit 1 the best I could. The boys really were not interested in anything but Busy bags and playing outdoors so I do not have any photo’s I just tried to get the lessons in while they were playing or we skipped them. I am hoping to have more HOD stuff to record next week.

I almost forgot we read the read several alphabet books and focused on the letter Aa. Sammy worked on tracing the letter Aa with his finger.

Preschool Science- Caterpillar

What I love about preschool science is that it yields itself to the natural progression of learning.

Sammy- “Look mom, it’s a caterpiwer!!!!! My watch it”.

Me – Isn’t it cool that you can find caterpillars almost anywhere? This one probably came from that tree over there. I saw a few on it the other day.

Kids – “Let me see, pick him up, pick him up, DAD, mom can’t pick him up!!!!”

Dad – “Caterpillars love to eat leaves.”

Me – “Caterpillars turn into Butterflies.”

The older kids – “After a while they go into a cocoon and stay there for a while and when they come out they are butterflies.”

Sammy – “Let’s put him on the tree so he can turn to butterfly!!!”

And that’s how pre-school science works around here. HEE HEE.

We did watch this youtube video as well,

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.

Because no row is complete without great snacks, I made some dog bone scones. They were great!

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