- 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, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter F
When she was taking the “e” stuff down, she was acting all sad, so she left an “e” up. 🙂 (First time doing this with the baby around. So, lots less pictures an less activities that involve a ton of set-up. Still trying to get over the guilt of not having enough time for her. :/) Day 1 Find f stickers and put on F (She also got a sticky pad and made F’s on them and put them around the room for dad to find. And realized I could’ve had her help me make all the stickers. Duh!) Color and assemble letter F book Find F books on our…
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Thank You for the Smooth Transition
After having my second baby, I was reminded again of how wonderful it is for people to give their time to help. We had some great meals provided to us. And, my mom of course has helped tremendously, as always. Thanks, mom. I look back, with regret, and think of all the friends and family I could’ve helped more. I had so much free time! In fact, I hope if I’d known, I would’ve been like my friend Stephenie. There are people I wish I was more like. She’s definitely one of them. She has gone above and beyond and truly exemplified the give way of life. Being pregnant and having…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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, Curricula, English, History/Social Science, Interest Led Homeschool, Math, Parenting, the Give Way, Preschool, Science, Teaching, the Give Way
What a Three Year Old Can Learn
I really liked having goals for my two-year-old and myself last year. So, I figured I’d try and do it every year. Then as I wrote this article and titled it “Plans and Goals,” I realized that there are goals for me, but most of what I called “goals” are really just what I see her learning. I’ve always had a hard time explaining why I really didn’t care if I met the goals. I mean, why make goals if you don’t want to meet them, right? So, I’m changing my terminology as part of my attempt to grasp this natural learning process. So what follows are goals for me and just…
