Week of May 16-20, Jack and the Beanstalk.

This week marked the start of our summer lessons. We finished up the totschool lessons that I had planned out for the year last week, and since Arthur loves going to school, I decided to continue lessons loosely through the summer.  Each week we'll frame our lessons around a different story or book. We'll continue to learn sight words, and we'll review letters and numbers as we go. 

For the summer lessons, I created a new board, see above, so we can start getting into a morning/beginning of class routine. I want to start this so that when Arthur starts school at 4, some of it will look similar to what we were doing at home.  We sit on the rug, and we sing songs and talk about what day it is, the days of the week, the weather, and what we're learning. We also take the time to read a book. This week we read three different versions of Jack and the Beanstalk.

After we read (or listened to) each book, we would talk about the similarities and differences in each one. Arthur was quick to point out that each story had Jack, three beans, a cow, a beanstalk and a giant. From there, the stories would all differ.

We completed several different activities revolving around the story. We used worksheets that you can find at 3 Dinosaurs and Totschooling. We love these websites, because they have so many great resources for different levels.

Coloring the large bags of Gold Yellow, the small Orange (3 Dinosaurs)

Syllable Dotting (Totschooling)

Completing the pattern (3 Dinosaurs)

Matching (3 Dinosaurs)

Shape Tracing (3 Dinosaurs)

We continued work on the sight word TO. 

Circle the word in the sentence (3 Dinosaurs)

Tracing the word (3 dinosaurs)

We practiced the letter Jj this week.  As we go back and review letters, we are taking the time to practice tracing the letters and building up our writing skills.

Finally, we completed an art project to go along with the story. We decided to use Mickey Mouse as our Jack, since we read that Mickey and the Beanstalk book this week.

Next week we're going to be reading the story Little Red Riding Hood, completing our lessons on the word TO, and learning the word IN, and reviewing the letters Rr and Ww.