Soooo....since I THINK I'm supposed to make lesson plans in case someone stops me & asks 'what on Earth is your child doing at home on a weekday?'
I just might pull out my blog...
We found this cute song on You Tube to help us learn the books of the Bible : 66 Books of the Bible. It's a little dated but J loves it. We used a pointer (pencil with a fun eraser) to point to each book on a chart as they sung the song!
Word puzzles are great!! I printed these over at one of my favorites for Printables...This Reading Mama: Free Bob Book Printables or This Reading Mama - Free Bob Book Printables cont'd
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Sight word Boom - blow the party blower and knock the cup with the correct sight word I read aloud. You can also read a story and have them listen for a particular word.
Sight Word Baseball-He had to hit the crumpled up pieces of paper, which all had sight words on them.
Sight Word Bingo - a simple 8-word grid and he has to mark the word with a dinosaur on his grid if I call it out. This Reading Mama has an awesome Word Wac Woe which is a very cute way to learn sight words!
Hide and Seek - Searching for Sight Words. You can also search for them around the house (and even put names of common household objects up around your house) or out and about when you go grocery shopping or on errands!
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Matching word families using animals.
Printed from This Reading Mama Bob Book printables. and More
Alphabet fishing - use paper clips to "catch" these fish and match the letter with the picture that starts with that letter.
Have you heard of BANG? Super fun letter recognition game (or you can use sight words!) Try to make pairs of letters by drawing them out of a paper sack (or hat - something that you can't see what you drawing). If you draw a BANG stick, you lose all your matches and start over! If you're playing with sight words, have the player sound out the word. If he sounds it correctly, he gets to keep it.
Don't Let the Cat Out of the Bag - very similar to bang. We worked on sight words with this game. Draw a card, say the word, get to keep the card (you get a point). If you draw the cat picture out (there were 5) you have to put back your cards. He thought this was hilarious!
Coloring with cue tips...ba, be, bi, bo, bu as he says the "words"
Reading with a pointer! We downloaded several FREE ebooks (which go into your ibook app on your ipad!) from 1+1+1=1 Raising Rock Stars.
These fun cards have cut outs for your magnetic letters. I bought them at the Thrift store!
He cut out pictures I had printed from google search of various things and he has to put them over the correct letter of the beginning sound.
We use this chart each morning to go over our letter sounds/phonics. We don't say the name of the letter anymore, just its sound! Then we play a fun game called Jibbily Jobbily where you make up funny words - long strings of letters that don't make any sense. He has to name each letter's sound and then I have to try to pronounce the entire word! Big laughs!
Sight word laminated play doh cards
Building words with Unifix Letter Cubes
Christian Preschool Printables has some great file folder games, lapbooks, and easy reader printable mini books - all free!
Bible Story Printables has a printable timeline for free! I am so excited to put this together, but I have a feeling it's going to take awhile!
This game came from This Reading Mama. It's called letter blending! If you go to THIS LINK, you can download the Set 4: Compound Words Bob Book printables for free! That is where I printed the cute blender! It explains how to blend 2 letters together. When 2 letters get together they say a special sound (called a blend).
Read - Build - Write from 1+1+1=1
Cool concept...You read the word in a story, build the word with letter tiles or magnetic letters (or paper letters), then write the word using your pencil. I'm a big fan of the multisensory approach.
Cut & paste to make the story correct. "I see a hat on a cat. I see a bee in a tree."
This one had trouble with 'C.' It was always backwards. So we talked about how C is a crow and drew a beak on the end and that he wanted to eat his corn so he needed to face forward or else he wouldn't get any corn. It worked!
MATH:
Building with Legos
Copy the pattern of shapes on the Angry Bird card using the building blocks. Then the fun part - knock it down with the Angry Birds!
Roll the dice. Put that many counters on the grid. Encourages understanding of one-to-one correspondence. (the number 4 means 4 spaces get covered)
Christmas Tree patterns - cutting and making patterns!
Farm Spinner Game...OK. This game is super fun. And it covers multiple areas of learning...you use a spinner you can print from 1+1+1=1 in her kindergarten printables. You spin the spinner (which I used a brad stuck in a paper plate with a paper clip around the top of the brad). If you're playing with 2, each of you pick 3 animals and a color. There are 6 total animals. If it lands on my animal, I get to find the word on the chart and color one square in the color I chose. With each spin, color one square. Whoever gets the most squares colored wins. At the end, tally all the squares out beside each word/animal and write that number. Which animal came in first, second, third, etc.
Math sentences with Squinkies. Describe this scenario in a math sentence. I have 2 squinkies. Billy gives me 2 more. How many do I have now?
The math sentence is 2+2=4.
Monster Truck Graphing from 1+1+1=1 Raising Rockstar kids free printables. Print a spinner circle and mount to a paper plate. Use a paper clip to create a game spinner. Chart/graph each time you spin a certain truck. See which truck wins!
Tracing letters - he gets these cute letter books from Scholastic!
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Tracing name on laminated paper
Number Forming
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The clear snowman had sprinkles inside him!
The Melted Snowman game. I handed him a little bag with a button, a carrot, and an ice cube. He had to guess what was inside. It was a melted snowman!! Then we took the ice cube and the object of the game is to be the first to melt your cube! I cannot remember where I saw this game but you could probably search for it.
Roll 1 - Blow on your cube
Roll 2 - Hold in your hand for 10 sec
Roll 3 - Drop cube down your shirt!
Roll 4 - Soak in water for 30 sec
Roll 5 - Sprinkle salt on your cube
Roll 6 - Drop cube on floor.
Chilling at the library
Where are we? If Ricky and Priscilla went on a trip from Alabama to visit our adopted child Viktoria, all the way in Armenia, how would they travel there? What would they need? How many miles is it and how long do you think it would take them?
We always have to take advantage of the scale at the grocery store! Which vegetable do you estimate is the heaviest??
Georgia Aquarium
World Missions Offering at Church: Selling baked goods we made - peanut brittle, white chocolate cherries, and caramel popcorn trail mix
I got this idea from GO Kids, the elementary group at church and it originally came from online - Check out Light 'Em Up by Courtney DeFeo or More Light 'Em Up ideas
Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes - We prepared 3 boxes for a 4 year old boy.
We included a special note and an envelope with our address, in hopes we
would get a return letter. We are still praying our boxes will make it
to just the right little boys and that they will feel God's love.
Shoes for Soldiers - We also sent tennis shoes to soldiers guarding in Afghanistan. We pray that their feet will be guarded in the Peace of the Gospel. Eph 6:13
World Vision Sponsorship -
Check out the World Vision Gift Catalog. I let J pick out one thing for us to give to Jesus for Christmas. He picked out the goat one year and this year he was drawn to the Girls in Prison who are traffiked. There are many causes to support, wherever your heart leads you.
Our adopted children:
Viktoria - Armenia
Katerine - Nicarauga
"Rebby" -South Africa
BRAIN TREK - a private school owned and operated by Martha Williams, director of Kids Trek.
Making a mammals book
Lots of toys and learning at Brain Trek
BIBLE:
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| Be strong in the Lord and in His mighty Power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. Ephesians 6:10 |
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord. Col 3:23
Attending Bible Study Fellowship together on Wednesday mornings. Once a month the children during Intergenerational Worship, the children come into the Sanctuary and we worship together by singing hymns.
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| Nativity Scene Legos - These are Trinity Toys Brand from Family Christian. |
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| Acting out The Egyptian Plagues -the bubble wrap is for the boils on their skin! 1. Blood - red marble, red cup, or clear cup painted half-red 2. Frogs - plastic frogs or flippy frogs you flick with your finger 3. and 4. Lice & Flies - tiny plastic bugs 5. Pestilence/disease of livestock - plastic farm animals 6. Boils - bubble wrap 7. Hail -white marble or marshmallow 8. Locusts - plastic grasshoppers 9. Darkness - black marble or black felt/fabric/construction paper 10. Slaying of Firstborn - tiny plastic baby from King Cake or miniature aisle at craft store |  |
We found this cute song on You Tube to help us learn the books of the Bible : 66 Books of the Bible. It's a little dated but J loves it. We used a pointer (pencil with a fun eraser) to point to each book on a chart as they sung the song!
PHONICS & READING:
Word puzzles are great!! I printed these over at one of my favorites for Printables...This Reading Mama: Free Bob Book Printables or This Reading Mama - Free Bob Book Printables cont'd
We encourage making all kinds of words with the magnetic letters...even potty words...whatever makes him happy! Typical boy.
Sight word Boom - blow the party blower and knock the cup with the correct sight word I read aloud. You can also read a story and have them listen for a particular word.Sight Word Baseball-He had to hit the crumpled up pieces of paper, which all had sight words on them.Sight Word Bingo - a simple 8-word grid and he has to mark the word with a dinosaur on his grid if I call it out. This Reading Mama has an awesome Word Wac Woe which is a very cute way to learn sight words!Hide and Seek - Searching for Sight Words. You can also search for them around the house (and even put names of common household objects up around your house) or out and about when you go grocery shopping or on errands!
Matching word families using animals. Printed from This Reading Mama Bob Book printables. and More
Alphabet fishing - use paper clips to "catch" these fish and match the letter with the picture that starts with that letter.Have you heard of BANG? Super fun letter recognition game (or you can use sight words!) Try to make pairs of letters by drawing them out of a paper sack (or hat - something that you can't see what you drawing). If you draw a BANG stick, you lose all your matches and start over! If you're playing with sight words, have the player sound out the word. If he sounds it correctly, he gets to keep it.
Don't Let the Cat Out of the Bag - very similar to bang. We worked on sight words with this game. Draw a card, say the word, get to keep the card (you get a point). If you draw the cat picture out (there were 5) you have to put back your cards. He thought this was hilarious! Coloring with cue tips...ba, be, bi, bo, bu as he says the "words"
Reading with a pointer! We downloaded several FREE ebooks (which go into your ibook app on your ipad!) from 1+1+1=1 Raising Rock Stars.These fun cards have cut outs for your magnetic letters. I bought them at the Thrift store! He cut out pictures I had printed from google search of various things and he has to put them over the correct letter of the beginning sound.We use this chart each morning to go over our letter sounds/phonics. We don't say the name of the letter anymore, just its sound! Then we play a fun game called Jibbily Jobbily where you make up funny words - long strings of letters that don't make any sense. He has to name each letter's sound and then I have to try to pronounce the entire word! Big laughs!
Christian Preschool Printables has some great file folder games, lapbooks, and easy reader printable mini books - all free!
Bible Story Printables has a printable timeline for free! I am so excited to put this together, but I have a feeling it's going to take awhile!
This game came from This Reading Mama. It's called letter blending! If you go to THIS LINK, you can download the Set 4: Compound Words Bob Book printables for free! That is where I printed the cute blender! It explains how to blend 2 letters together. When 2 letters get together they say a special sound (called a blend).
Read - Build - Write from 1+1+1=1
Cool concept...You read the word in a story, build the word with letter tiles or magnetic letters (or paper letters), then write the word using your pencil. I'm a big fan of the multisensory approach.
Cut & paste to make the story correct. "I see a hat on a cat. I see a bee in a tree."
This one had trouble with 'C.' It was always backwards. So we talked about how C is a crow and drew a beak on the end and that he wanted to eat his corn so he needed to face forward or else he wouldn't get any corn. It worked!MATH:
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| Using a number line: use a small toy/plane or coin to cover up a number and ask "Which number is under the toy?" |
Copy the pattern of shapes on the Angry Bird card using the building blocks. Then the fun part - knock it down with the Angry Birds!
Christmas Tree patterns - cutting and making patterns!
Farm Spinner Game...OK. This game is super fun. And it covers multiple areas of learning...you use a spinner you can print from 1+1+1=1 in her kindergarten printables. You spin the spinner (which I used a brad stuck in a paper plate with a paper clip around the top of the brad). If you're playing with 2, each of you pick 3 animals and a color. There are 6 total animals. If it lands on my animal, I get to find the word on the chart and color one square in the color I chose. With each spin, color one square. Whoever gets the most squares colored wins. At the end, tally all the squares out beside each word/animal and write that number. Which animal came in first, second, third, etc.
Math sentences with Squinkies. Describe this scenario in a math sentence. I have 2 squinkies. Billy gives me 2 more. How many do I have now?The math sentence is 2+2=4.
Monster Truck Graphing from 1+1+1=1 Raising Rockstar kids free printables. Print a spinner circle and mount to a paper plate. Use a paper clip to create a game spinner. Chart/graph each time you spin a certain truck. See which truck wins!
HANDWRITING:
Tracing name on laminated paper Number Forming.jpg) Do-a-Dot painting for difficult letters | ||||||
| Do you know about b sees d? It's a way for kids to remember which letter faces which way! |  |
SCIENCE:
Experimenting with water, food coloring, and snowman molds!.jpg)
The clear snowman had sprinkles inside him!
The Melted Snowman game. I handed him a little bag with a button, a carrot, and an ice cube. He had to guess what was inside. It was a melted snowman!! Then we took the ice cube and the object of the game is to be the first to melt your cube! I cannot remember where I saw this game but you could probably search for it.Roll 1 - Blow on your cube
Roll 2 - Hold in your hand for 10 sec
Roll 3 - Drop cube down your shirt!
Roll 4 - Soak in water for 30 sec
Roll 5 - Sprinkle salt on your cube
Roll 6 - Drop cube on floor.
Another experiment with frozen water - dinosaurs got 'caught' in the ice during the Ice Age! That is how we believe they became extinct.
ART:
Aunt Leslie gave us these wonderful Window Markers. They will be great for art and maybe some handwriting practice too!
FIELD TRIPS
Learning about the American Indians at a friend's Konos co-op
Early Works Children's Museum
We always have to take advantage of the scale at the grocery store! Which vegetable do you estimate is the heaviest??
Georgia Aquarium
ON MISSION:
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| We raised over $150 for the Lottie Moon Offering! |
Passing out oranges and peanut butter crackers at Manna House - we always bring a fold up stool so J can reach the food line & participate.
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| Mrs. Fran at Manna House always finds a sweet treat for J to nibble on |
This Christmas (2013) we passed out MOUNDS of blessings, small chocolate bars with a blessing verse throughout the surgery waiting room of the hospital and in the
hospital chapel.
Here we are with all of our Mounds of Blessings and candy canes gifts we prepared to give out to anyone we ran into that might need a lift. We asked God to show us the right people and provide opportunities to share Jesus' love.
Shoes for Soldiers - We also sent tennis shoes to soldiers guarding in Afghanistan. We pray that their feet will be guarded in the Peace of the Gospel. Eph 6:13
Gifts for our Neighborhood Servants: Mail carriers, Garbage & Recycle Collectors: Waiting...
Making gifts for special servants - Sunday School teachers & school teachers
Fried Pies :)
World Vision Sponsorship - Check out the World Vision Gift Catalog. I let J pick out one thing for us to give to Jesus for Christmas. He picked out the goat one year and this year he was drawn to the Girls in Prison who are traffiked. There are many causes to support, wherever your heart leads you.
Our adopted children:
Viktoria - Armenia
Katerine - Nicarauga
"Rebby" -South Africa
BRAIN TREK - a private school owned and operated by Martha Williams, director of Kids Trek.
Mensa Kids Trek is free, open to the public, and geared for all ages. Children
must have adult partners. For more information on Mensa Kids Trek and/or Brain
Trek, please contact Martha Williams,
kidstrek@earthlink.net
a free program for Huntsville to faciliate hands-on learning.
Making a mammals book
Lots of toys and learning at Brain Trek
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