6-8 Year Old
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter J
Day 1 Find “J” and “j” stickers and put on a J Color and assemble Letter J book (I only use three pages.) Went through our library and got j books Activity sheet 1 Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Day 2 Fill in J Outline and j Outline with: She has started doing them without talking to me, so she drew jaguars in one and wrote the word “jam” in the other. (jewels, jellybeans) Letter to a friend with a name that starts with “J” This was the first time she wanted to write a lot, rather than just draw a picture and have me write most of it. It…
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South African Safari Photos (Pilanesberg National Park)
Here are a photos from the spring in Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa. Find a list of historical fiction set in Africa here. These photos are published under a creative commons license (CC BY-SA 4.0). If it seems like the photo isn’t downloading at a res you’d like, please leave a comment with the number of the photo, and I’ll send an original. Thanks! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 6. 7. 8. There’s a lion laying in the grass, dead center…if you look hard enough. 🙂 9. 10. 11. 12. Hippo in water. 13. 14. 15. …
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Math, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter I
Day 1 Find “I” and “i” stickers and put on I Color and assemble letter I book (I only use three pages.) Look through our library and get I books Put out I words (instruments, iPad, iPod, iPhone…I highly recommend using masking or painting tape so nothing is ruined when you pull it off) Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew In about 3 min, I made some ice cream scoops and cones from leftover felt. We don’t have any good scissors around, and I didn’t use a template, so the results could probably be on one of those Pinterest fail lists. 🙂 But she enjoyed playing with them quietly, which…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter H
This week was a little crazy. She was not really into a lot of the worksheets. I think she only did a couple. I linked them still, but she didn’t do them. And, as I’ve said before, I don’t force her to do any of this stuff if she’s not interested. Apparently, H was not a letter she cared to get into. 🙂 Day 1 Find h stickers and put on H Color and assemble letter H book Get H books out of our library Hokey Pokey (she had lots of fun doing this) Starfall Computer Activity Video: Get Squiggling!-Letter H Day 2 Hopping Fill in H outline and h…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter G
Fortunately, grandpa and grandma visited this week (G people!). I took full advantage and had them do the more hands on activities, while I was with the baby. These would not have otherwise gotten done. Thanks, mom and dad! 🙂 Day 1 Find g stickers and put on G Color and assemble letter G book Go through our books and get G books Put out G words (garbage can, guitar, glass…I highly recommend using masking or painting tape so nothing is ruined when you pull it off) Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Day 2 Fill in G outline and g outline with: grass and I was going to use glitter, but…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter E
One of my goals is to work on not controlling everything…it took a lot of will power not to unstaple and turn the one sheet around and not redo the stapling of the book for her. (Note to self: be around when she’s stapling. 😉 ) Day 1 Put uppercase letter and lowercase letter (cursive and manuscript) on 12 circle stickers. Hide them around a room. Once she finds them, she puts them on a letter outline. Color and assemble letter E book (I only chose the three pages I thought she would like most.) Gather books from our bookshelves that relate to the letter E. Song: E Eats Everything Song: Everybody…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Science, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter D
Day 1 Put letter D and d (cursive and manuscript) on 12 circle stickers. Hide them in a room. Once she finds them, she puts them on letter D outline. (see example in picture above) Letter D book (I only chose three of the pages I thought she would like most.) Gathered up D books from around the house. Video: D Is for Dragons and Donuts! Song: D Song Play dominoes (and play with dominoes…and even dance with dominoes. 🙂 ) Day 2 Visit the Natural History Museum to see some dinosaur bones. We went to the LA Natural History Museum. It’s free the first Tuesday of every month, except in July…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter C
This week we were dog sitting, so not many pictures, and not a ton of activities. This will be a very basic letter of the week. 🙂 Day 1 Put letter C and c (cursive and manuscript) on 12 circle stickers. Hide them in a room. Once she finds them, she puts them on letter C outline. (I used printed ones for this, but they were too big. By the letter D, I just made small handwritten letters on card stock to put the stickers on). Letter C book (I only chose three of the pages I thought she would like most.) Starfall Computer Activity Day 2 Bake Cookies Activity Sheet…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter B
Day 1 Put letter B and b (cursive and manuscript) on 12 circle stickers. Hide them in a room. Once she finds them, she puts them on letter B outline. (I used printed ones for this, but they were too big. By the letter D, I just made small handwritten letters on card stock to put the stickers on). Letter B book (I only chose three of the pages I thought she would like most.) Starfall Computer Activity Have a BBQ Day 2 Make a bird out of a paper plate and glue feathers on it. (regular paper plate folded in half, put a beak and feet on it.) Make a…
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- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter A
Day 1 Put letter A and a (cursive and manuscript) on 12 circle stickers. Hide them in a room. Once she finds them, she puts them on letter A outline. (I used printed ones for this, but they were too big. By the letter D, I just made small handwritten letters on card stock to put the stickers on). (See picture above.) Letter A book (I only chose three of the pages I thought she would like most.) Cut up red pieces of construction paper and glue onto small plate for apple (see picture above) Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Video Day 2 Paint cardboard apple and alligator plate (see…
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- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, Curricula, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Math, Preschool, Science, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week
So, there is a lot of controversy over whether to do letter of the week or not. Really, there is. I can see the validity of both sides and have tried to take out the repetitiveness and implement more meaningful activities. But, ultimately those who oppose the letter of the week idea, would rather the learning is part of something bigger, and has the whole alphabet being learned on a continuous basis, not as separate parts. This is basically what we’ve been “doing” for the last year, which is evidenced by her knowledge of the alphabet already. But, it really came down to our family situation this year. With being…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, History/Social Science, Interest Led Homeschool, Preschool, Science, Social Activities, Teaching, the Give Way, Tot School
Tot School: Community Worker Dramatic Play Party
At the end of our community worker theme, we had a little get together. It was a great party. It would have been a lot better if I’d had a few more older kids to show the little ones how to do things, but they did a great job on their own. There was one area that they didn’t even attempt. We moms could’ve helped more, but these are as much for us to enjoy talking with other adults as it is for the kids. 🙂 The kids had fun. We had fun. And this is part of my journey of letting go of my controlling tendencies…I will not force…
