Holbrook Heroes: First Week of February

School is rolling right along. This week was pretty basic. I fell back to some workbook activities for writing and reading (more with Sawyer than Hayden). We had some fun art activities this week as well and a lot of outside playtime since the weather is so nice right now.

Reading:
Hayden learned about contractions this week. The title of his reader was "It's Groundhog Day, Dear Dragon." So, using the title as the first example, we went from there.

Bee Contraction Match-Up activity

Ice Cream Contractions. I used the backside of our feltboard Ice Cream Addition.

For Sawyer, I've decided to take him back to reviewing the letters of the alphabet and their sounds. He also colored and put together an early emergent reader which we read through (and will probably read through again next week. I tried doing some Hooked on Phonics with him as well, but he wasn't entirely cooperative with it. So, that didn't work out. We'll go back to BOB books next week. That seemed to work out better.

The Bee Book (pure coincidence that Hayden had the Bee Contractions)!

One of 3 letters that Sawyer reviewed this week.

Writing:
Our writing this week was mostly from workbooks, but we also did some activities to work on Sawyer's prewriting skills and his name. Hayden also had his spelling words to work on that we did something different with and he ended the week with a test.

Spelling word stamping. Each letter is traced with it's letter stamp.

Yarn Name. What I thought would be a fun activity for him, actually turned
out to be a very challenging one. He could not grasp the concept to start at
the end of a piece of yarn and follow along the letter line with it. He kept
trying to put the whole piece of yarn on the letter at once. He finally figured
it out by the end of his name.

Hayden did the same thing with yarn for his spelling words.

Working in the workbook!

Line Mazes

Cutting out the line mazes

Math:

Sawyer didn't do much math this week. He did mostly reading, writing, and art. However, he did do MathSeeds on the computer. It's a new element added to the Reading Eggs program that the boys do. Hayden worked using his abacus differently to make large numbers.

Building the number 4900

Art:
Since Valentine's Day is coming up, we did a couple of Valentine art projects. The first was a heart painting in the style of Jim Dine. The boys loved this one so much that they both asked to do a second one! The second activity was handprints on a heart on a woven mat. This was not as fun since the weaving was a bit difficult for their fine motor skills, but they came out nice anyway!