Groundhog Day and More

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February 3, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

This month has flown by!

Here are the girls graphing…

I made Angry Birds cubes and graphs! They loved it.

They love their Crayola Dry Erase Activity Center for the graphing activities!

Snowflake graphing with stickers.

Penguin patterns with stickers.

Circus! The kids got to ride an elephant! So, at $10 per kid, we’re not eating this week! lol!

Letter O activities with You Can Read program…

Art with Artistic Pursuits, Book One: An Introduction to the Visual Arts.

Our new lessons boards.

We’re transitioning into 1st grade, y’all!

I’m using a mix of The Well-Trained Mind and Ambleside Online.

On the bottom right, that’s our sensory table for Valentine’s!

Groundhog puppet crafts from our homeschool co-op.

Time is going by too fast!

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New Calendar Board

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January 31, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Our calendar board is a work in progress.

I am forever looking for improvements and changing it to suit our needs.

One side is our monthly themed calendar:

The other side is our circle time morning board.

After this picture was taken, I added a liturgical calendar wheel to help us understand the church calendar.

On the left, I have our pledges to the American flag, Christian flag, and Bible.

In the middle is our Bible verse of the week.

On the left is our theme poem of the month.

We have our themes of the week on the green page: letter, character trait, state, animal, shape, color.

We have a clock, temp, and money chart.

We pray using the acronym ACTS:

Adoration,

Confession,

Thanksgiving, and

Supplication.

Tori and Katie have calendar notebooks that they do almost daily to help them understand the calendar and themes and whatever else I throw in there that makes sense to us that week or month.

The kids love to learn during our morning circle time. We get so much accomplished – Bible, shapes, colors, animals, money, time, temperature, months and days of the week. I love how much they learn in just a few minutes each morning.

Calendar Printables:

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Tot School still 21 months

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January 29, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

I title this: “No, I will not show you my snowy picture…”

But, I will be a ham while playing with fishy felts.

Tracing lines from mousie to mousie…saying yuuuummmmmm like the mousies are eating cheese.

Where’s the moon?

Where’s the star?

Cutting food

Playing Toca Boca Kitchen (we’re a little obsessed with Toca Boca games)

He’s a busy boy and learning so much!

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Montessori Kindergarten

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January 27, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 3 Comments

The girls are really enjoying the Montessori trays with works that I set out this week.

sorting corks

sorting solid geometry forms

Alex got into the geometry forms and Tori taught him their names.

Sequencing Puzzle Cards

geoboards

Fraction dot paint with Angry Birds K Pack

color sorting the fractions on the pages

subtraction math game
$subtraction snowmen math game$

writing the days of the week

I love that we have the freedom to mix things up and try new things!

Montessori Kindergarten gives the girls lots of options to learn on their own.

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Frozen Bubbles

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January 20, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

Winter math and science this week with Frozen Bubbles and Penguins

Feeding the penguin…combination of the game Memory and addition/subtraction.

Pick two cards and work out the math equation and then feed the penguin that many fish cards. They loved it.

Frozen bubbles

It’s been really cold. Why not blow bubbles outside and see what they do? They freeze and shatter!

We also estimated how many snowballs to make a snowman. We found a great template here.

We played a really fun math game called Melt the Snowman. Katie won, but Tori was a good sport. We’ll play it again soon.

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At the Playground

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January 16, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Here is what we do on Tuesday afternoons while Elizabeth is at her piano and voice lessons (if the weather permits).

At the Playground!

Alex had a fit if his sisters didn’t rush over to hold hands and slide with him.

He learned how to swing from the top bar. I about had a heart attack. Thanks, Tori, for teaching Alex that trick!

Such a happy boy!

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Story Art

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January 14, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

I set up a class at our winter homeschool co-op using the story+art ideas from A Mommy’s Adventures.

story+art=StArt

I have a theme each week and check out books from the library and bring art supplies for a craft. There are about a dozen kids signed up, grades K-2, including my Tori and Katie (for whom I planned the class).

Last week, we read some ABC books and did initial collages.

I had all sorts of collage materials, hoping to appeal to all the boys and girls: moss, rocks, sequins, shells, beads, jewels, stickers…

We all got a kick out of this alphabet book: A is for Salad. The pictures illustrate the letter, but the words say something a little different.

Victoria’s and Katherine’s initial collages:

I did one with Alex at home. He was so proud!

I couldn’t get the ‘A’ to print straight. Oh well, he didn’t mind.

This week, we read about dots and did Do-A-Dot pages.

Those were a real hit!

I got the dot printables from Making Learning Fun. We used the theme of Swimming Creatures to go along with our Apologia Science class.

Resources:

Peanut Butter and Jellyfishes: A Very Silly Alphabet Book
A is for Salad
The Dot
Press Here

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Snow Much Fun!

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January 13, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 4 Comments

Our Snowy Activities

We made a snow fort with Dad!

Ice experiment

Making snowball cookies (Danish wedding cookies)

Yum!

These are so fun and easy to make!

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Antarctica Unit Study

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January 7, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

We broke out our new continent box of Antarctica Friday.

I have a sensory continent card, penguin life cycle chart, penguin 3-part cards, animals of Antarctica, and a Penguin Toob. The kiddos LOVED it! We have lots of winter, snow, and Antarctica books on our display shelf right now.

The girls are proud of their new box and all the goodies! They spread it all out on our new mats (from Walmart), Montessori-style!

We matched penguins to the cards and learned about the different kinds.

We made a rubbing (sort of) out of the sensory card.

Then, Tori and I explored some prepositions with a penguin printable: above, below, beside, on, left, right, etc.

I found this great penguin FFG that I recommissioned as a Build a Sight Word game.

I wrote cold words on the penguin signs and Tori matched up the letters on the other penguins. She loved it.

We played a fun penguin feeding game.

Antarctica is a pretty cool place and we love penguins!

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Winter Tot School 21 Months

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January 2, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Alex went outside when it was 18 degrees to help his dad and the neighbors fix the fence. Brr!

He LOVES his new BLUE Crayola dry erase board!

Livin’ it up at Christmas dinner (sparkling grape juice)!

Our new cube system with some Montessori trays. Alex’s is on the left. My K girls’ is on the right, but they often share. Alex sure is different from the girls at 21 months! He is so active; he doesn’t want to sit still for long and has no interest in paper activities.

A favorite activity is in the bottom far left cube: pouring black beans into a bowl. He also liked picking up pony beads and “feeding” the duck in the middle bottom cube.

He pretty ignored all his other activities.

Here is Alex using one of the girls’ activities. I didn’t think he would be able to do it, but he sure surprised me! I named all the colors and shapes for him.

He loves the pattern blocks!