June 13-17: Pete the Cat

This week we turned our summer studies from fairy and folk tales  to everyone's favorite cat: Pete! We also continued working on the word, IT, and practiced writing the letter Cc and the number 4.

Books

Theme Work

To go along with Pete the Cat, we used some worksheets I found at 3 Dinosaurs.  We also used felt pieces on the felt board to help tell our story.

Using the Felt Board to tell the story "Pete the Cat  and his  White Shoes"

Completing patterns

Completing patters

His Completed Worksheets

Counting the objects an d circling the number

Sight Words

Reviewing all of  his sight words! He's getting really good at it!

Finding "IT" in the sentence. 

Handwriting Practice

Miscellaneous

We played a couple different learning games this week.

Color sorting

CVC Word Match. Matching pictures to the words. He needs lots of help with this, but he's learning!

Next week, we're going to continue on the one book a week thing, and we're going to do "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." I'm looking forward to this theme, because we're going to be making homemade chocolate chip cookies to enjoy!

June 6-12: Little Red Hen

This week we finally lived up to "relaxed, summer lessons."  We only did lessons one day this week, the rest of the week we played outside and enjoyed some spray grounds at a local park with friends. 

The theme this week was Little Red Hen, and Arthur really loved it.  We did a couple worksheets for Little Red Hen, we started learning the word, IT, we practiced the letter Hh and we baked bread!

The book we read this  week

Made our "flashcard" for IT

Practicing writing H

Practicing patterns!

Matching beginning sounds

Proof that I let Arthur do his own work. It's REALLY hard to not make him put those letters on straight!

Father's Day Card

Baking bread!

Finished Product!

Next week we're going to do a little something different and move away from Folk and Fairy Tales and do Pete the Cat!

Week of May 30-June 3: Pinoeers

This week we learned about pioneers in preparation to go to Living History Farms!  We also reviewed the letter Pp, the number 3 and continued with the word IN.

Books

We read the following books this week:

Theme Introduction

This week, we introduced the theme in a manner we're going to when we start Preschool in the fall. We sat down, talked about the theme, which was pioneers, and we brainstormed what we already knew about it. I wrote it all down on the white board, and we referred back to it every day. Please don't judge me on my art skills.

Discussed covered wagons and what we would pack in ours.

Sight Word

We continued with the word IN. Arthur is getting really good at reading the words we've learned.

This week we continued doing some circling of the word, and we even found it in a work sheet that went along with the week's theme. All the work this week can be found at 3 Dinosaurs

Letter Review

As with every week, we practiced writing.

Math

Instead of working with our review number this week, we worked on some easy math as an introduction to addition. Since he's not there yet, I wrote the numbers, but he did all the  counting to get to the numbers.  We also did some simple which picture doesn't belong activities.

Field Trip

This week we were able to take what we learned in the classroom and apply it to the real world. We went to Living History Farms, which is a museum that shows what life was like on farms in 1700, 1850 and 1900 Iowa, and in a town in 1875 Iowa. Arthur had a lot of fun. He really liked visiting the farms and seeing the animals.  He also liked all the hands on activities there were.

Working in the corn field.

Looking cute

Learning at School

Making a seed bomb

Crushing up cinnamon

Next week we return to fairy tales and folk tales with Little Red Hen. We're going to finish up IN and start IT, review the letter Ll, and bake some bread!