October started off with a bang! The first week included a field trip, a family day in St. Augustine, and a big race on Saturday to finish it off. Week two came and went before I could even blink...So, as I begin this post, I'm curious to see what all we accomplished when I look back through our pictures. Honestly, I would never remember anything that we did if it weren't for my diligence with the camera. Thank goodness!
Language Arts:
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Letters of the Week. Coloring as nicely as possible since we know that we
are making a book out of them all when we are done! |
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| Thinking hard about the "-an family" |
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| ABC Arc in reverse. We are getting faster! |
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Coloring Wink, Blink, and Pink (the seashells from his easy reader) to make
into puppets. |
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The lesson here was to write out his first and last name along with his phone
number. Then he could illustrate it however he wanted to. He chose to go
with the backyard swing set, I guess. |
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Hayden was a little envious of the above mentioned schoolwork. I told him
he could do the same thing once he finished his own lesson. So, he did. Then,
he drew a picture of a place he'd like to go and I had him write a sentence
about it. |
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| Making words |
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| Working on beginning sounds: W, I, O, G |
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"Head, Tummy, Toes" activity. Using the words we created, he had to pick
out the beginning, middle, or ending sound of the word depending on the
brown cue card flipped over. |
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| A little fun with Handwriting Without Tears: Aim & Scribble! |
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| Look at THAT grip!!!! |
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| Looking up sight words in the easy reader |
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| W Letter Hunt |
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| Tracing sight words of the week. The start of a sight word caterpillar. |
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Read, Trace, and Cut & Paste sentences with words from the -an family
along with sight words. |
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| Making word family flip books with the families, -ust, -ink, and -and. |
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| Sight Word Color-by-Number |
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| Handwriting: lapbook minibooks |
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Short story, "The Wind and the Sun" by Aesop.
After reading it, we talked about it, and then Hayden had
to color and cut out three pictures and put them in order
to make a Triple Story Chart. |
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| The finished Triple Story Chart. |
Math:
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| Learning the rules of adding even and odd numbers |
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| Reinforcement Time. |
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| Counting with tally sticks |
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| Putting bead cards in order. |
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| .....and expanding to tally cards and finger counting cards. |
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| Patterns in Counting (the abacus helps to visualize the patterns) |
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| Continuing the Pattern |
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| I can build stairs with my abacus! |
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| Fun Game Time! |
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| Annnnndddd it's another match! |
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| Continuing Patterns Up and Down |
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| Showing amounts by making tally marks |
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| Reinforcement of Writing Tally Marks! |
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| Making patterns with Rectangles |
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Playing a new card game: Multiples Memory. We each had an envelope
with multiples of a number (Hayden was 9s, and I was 7s). We had to find all
the multiples of our number in the right order. |
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| Learning to use the geoboard by creating different sized squares and rectangles. |
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| Translating quantities (fingers, tally sticks, abacus) |
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Guessing the number of tally sticks when I add or take away a certain amount
behind the folder. |
