A week on Counting

This past week was spent on counting. Ashley had learned to count awhile ago (up to fourteen) but didn't connect it with anything, so I wanted to work on it this week. She did a great job and can now easily count/match items up to five, and is doing pretty well with 6-10. Here are some of the books we used this week.

When we read books, we used puff balls to count along with the book. Here is a page from "Five Little Ducks."

We got the next sheet pictured from confessions of a homeschooler. She has lots of free printables. I printed multiple sets. One I printed on cardstock, and laminated whole (in sheet protectors taped closed) for Ashley to use her bugs (from discovery toys) to count.

The next one I printed out the first page (1-5) cut out each one, and laminated with packing tape. We added puffy ladybug stickers to each one, and spent a lot of time putting them in order from 1 to 5.

The third set I printed on regular paper and we used stickers to put in each square and counted them.

This sheet came from 1+1+1=1. We printed two copies, one to put stickers on and one to cut into cards and use with little gems (under supervision of course)

Some other things we did this week: Number Tracing. I think this was a 1+1+1=1 page also.

Counting puff balls next to little foam numbers.

Using our "Melissa and Doug" Number mat, counting one side, and coloring and counting the other side.

A few more things that I don't have pictures of... We have a sesame street video called "the number game" which we watched several times. Also, we counted EVERYTHING. food, trees, cars, whatever. Ashley learned so much this week and we had a great time! See you next week. This post is linked up to Totschool!

Chicka Chicka BOOM BOOM

I love the book Chicka Chicka BOOM BOOM, so we had to do a week on it. There are so many projects you can do with it, depending on your child's age. Here are some of the things we did.

Read the book - obviously. many many times. I have most of it memorized!

Watched a video of the book that I found on you tube.

I made a coconut tree using a coloring sheet I had from my college teaching days, and I colored it and used packing tape to put it on our dryerase magnet board. Then Ashley had fun having the letters climb the tree!

I had Ashley color a copy of the same tree to use for her lapbook.

She watercolor painted five smaller trees (I colored the trunks with marker) for her lapbook.

Lapbook cover I printed from online somewhere, if you recognize it, please let me know so I can link it.

Inside the lapbook. I cut out the trees and we glued them. We glued sets of coconuts (1-5) on to the trees.

I made the numbers, cut them out, and used packing tape to make them square, so they are easy to pick up, but see through. The numbers climb the correct tree!

On the back, we glued ashley's colored tree. I made the letters of her name the same way as I made the number cards, so that her name can climb the tree. There are storage envelopes on both pages for the letters/numbers to be stored in.

She loved that it spelled her name!

Tree made from a paper towel tube. I cut the leaves out and attached them. Ashley helped by putting the alphabet stickers on the tree.

The other tree we did, but it was too hard for ashley. There were holes poked in the tube for the feathers to go in, and the pompoms are glued on top as the coconuts.

What a fun week!

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April Update

It's only been three months this time, doing better!

One thing about blogging, when I forget to blog, I don't take pictures. So there aren't many. sorry!

My big kids went back to public school in February, so it's just Ashley and I most of the time now. Long story, but anyhow we do plan to homeschool Ashley as she grows.

We finished our weekly alphabet with Z the first week of March. We have been doing some short units - a hungry catapillar one, and one on cats. Also on being a princess of God.

A couple of pictures for you...

Name Tracing in January...


Reading on the table 2/6/12


Playing with shaving cream! This is a huge deal because it was the first time (after many many tries) that she played with it!


4/5/12 - Ashley brought me this and said "I make you a car mommy." LOVE IT!


Happy Spring!

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