Beginning of a New Year

Even though we are schooling it year round, I felt like we needed to do our traditional "beginning of the year" favorites photos.  This year, we get to include Riley, which is very exciting for him.  Our units of study are taking longer than a month to complete.  So, for the sake of keeping the post from getting too long winded (which I'm prone to do), I'm just going to put up the boys' favorites photos, and some of Riley's Letter of the Week lessons.  Here we go!

Riley's Letters of the Week
We got through the next four letters of the alphabet:  E, F, G, and H.  Man, this kid is LOVING his school time.  He is one of the big boys now!

Letter E Books We Read:

Ella the Elegant Elephant by Carmelo D'amico

But No Elephants by Jerry Smath

The Ear Book by Theo leSieg

An Extraordinary Egg by Leo Lionni

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

Letter E Activities

Do-a-Dot activity courtesy of The Measured Mom

Okay, so not an "E" activity, but this was one of our butterflies we got as a caterpillar
back when we studied letters B and C.  We let them go this week.

E is for Ears!

E is for Envelopes!

Putting "eggs" in the nests.

Letter F Books

Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni

The Pout Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen

A Frog in the Bog by Karma Wilson

The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

I Don't Want to Be a Frog by Dev Petty

F is for Firefighting by Dori Butler

The Firefighters by Sue Whiting

Letter F Activities

Letter Cards from The Measured Mom.  We sorted them into categories of Food vs Not Food

Putting stretchy frogs onto the letter F.

Fireman putting together a firetruck puzzle.

Letter G Books

Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae

A Giraffe and a Half by Shel Silverstein

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Goodnight Engines by Denise Mortensen

Goodnight Gorilla by Peggy Rathman

Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat

Garbage Collectors by Paulette Bourgeois

Jo MacDonald Had a Garden by Mary Quattlebaum

Letter G Activities

Cheerio math with a die and a giraffe

Just making use of those cheerios in some fine motor activity.

G is for Gumball

Putting garbage in the garbage truck!

Parts of a garden activity from the public library.

Letter H Books:

Hear Your Heart by Paul Showers

The Day it Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond

I Love You With All My Heart by Noris Kern

My Hippo Has the Hiccups by Kenn Nesbit

Old Hat New Hat by Stan & Jan Berenstain

Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

Letter H Activities

Q-tip heart tracing

Coloring hearts acccording to size

Flannel board Humpty Dumpty

Flannel board Hickory Dickory Dock

Humpty Dumpty puzzle (with bandaids!)

Puzzle pieces cut in half for scissor practicing skills.  Then he put back together.

Listening to our hearts

Cat in the Hat hat!

Making shape houses

House 1-10 Counting Cards from the Measured Mom

Next week, I'll get a post up of where the other two boys are.  In the meantime, here are our beginning of the school year photos: