Sensory
We brought the snow inside to play with it. That's my kind of playing in the snow. :) Not so cold.
Art
We made snowmen with marshmellows. :)
Sight Word Practice
I wrote his sight words on the chalk board and then he painted over them with water. Did the same thing for Gwen with her letters.
Snow Day!
We really haven't had a lot of snow this year, so we decided to make our own. We made giant snowflakes to take to the library. They were asking for snowflakes for decorations. We read bunches of books about snow, both fiction and non-fiction. We made a giant snow mountain in the living room. They would roll the dice, and have to climb the mountain to the other side and collect that amount of snowflakes and bring them back. This was a big hit. We also pulled out the shaving cream and put it on cookie sheets. The idea was for them to trace their letters and sight words, but it became just a cool sensory things to play in with their little bath toys.
Celebrating Literature!
Dad and the kids finished reading Stuart Little in January. We had a little Stuart Little party. I racked my brain for about...1 day and couldn't think of any Stuart Little food. So I gave up and we just had dinner, although the kids requested cupcakes because they said a bird in the book eats a cupcake at some point. :) After we partied, I thought, "Duh! Why didn't we have mini foods (stuart"little") or have foods that mice eat like cheese etc. *face palm! Oh well, they thought it was fun. They colored pictures of the characters from the book and then dressed up like their favorite characters. Gwen chose to be Snowbell and Miles was Stuart. I made a little Stuart Little sized bed out of a match box, just like the book. We also had jello with little "boats" on top because of the boat race in the book. Then we watched the movie, of course.
Handwriting
Miles' handwriting is definitely improving!
Math
More snow stuff! I found some free printables online of pattern block snowflakes.
Field Trips
Gwen's joy school was talking about the ocean this month, so for our field trip, we went to a scuba shop where they talked to us about all the technical stuff and then we got to watch them dive in their deep pool.
Homeschool Group
We hosted our homeschool group this month. We chose to talk about Persistence for our value. Since our little family is studying the body this year, and we have been learning about our muscles recently, we decided to incorporate muscles into learning about persistence too.
This is what the school room looks like at the end of EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Thank you Lindy.
Art
We made snowmen with marshmellows. :)
Sight Word Practice
I wrote his sight words on the chalk board and then he painted over them with water. Did the same thing for Gwen with her letters.
Snow Day!
We really haven't had a lot of snow this year, so we decided to make our own. We made giant snowflakes to take to the library. They were asking for snowflakes for decorations. We read bunches of books about snow, both fiction and non-fiction. We made a giant snow mountain in the living room. They would roll the dice, and have to climb the mountain to the other side and collect that amount of snowflakes and bring them back. This was a big hit. We also pulled out the shaving cream and put it on cookie sheets. The idea was for them to trace their letters and sight words, but it became just a cool sensory things to play in with their little bath toys.
Celebrating Literature!
Dad and the kids finished reading Stuart Little in January. We had a little Stuart Little party. I racked my brain for about...1 day and couldn't think of any Stuart Little food. So I gave up and we just had dinner, although the kids requested cupcakes because they said a bird in the book eats a cupcake at some point. :) After we partied, I thought, "Duh! Why didn't we have mini foods (stuart"little") or have foods that mice eat like cheese etc. *face palm! Oh well, they thought it was fun. They colored pictures of the characters from the book and then dressed up like their favorite characters. Gwen chose to be Snowbell and Miles was Stuart. I made a little Stuart Little sized bed out of a match box, just like the book. We also had jello with little "boats" on top because of the boat race in the book. Then we watched the movie, of course.
Handwriting
Miles' handwriting is definitely improving!
Math
More snow stuff! I found some free printables online of pattern block snowflakes.
Field Trips
Gwen's joy school was talking about the ocean this month, so for our field trip, we went to a scuba shop where they talked to us about all the technical stuff and then we got to watch them dive in their deep pool.
Homeschool Group
We hosted our homeschool group this month. We chose to talk about Persistence for our value. Since our little family is studying the body this year, and we have been learning about our muscles recently, we decided to incorporate muscles into learning about persistence too.
This is what the school room looks like at the end of EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Thank you Lindy.
