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Thing Two, Thing Two, What do You See?

I think we’ve finally found something to rival the Farm Tot Book: The Brown Bear Printable Pack. He loved it! In fact, we all did – such cute graphics and I really loved the real-life animal pictures. Adorable.

 IMG_0143 IMG_0145 He loved matching his “color friends” as he likes to call them. He did this every.single.day. this week.

IMG_0121 IMG_0142 He also really loved “reading” his little “What do You see?” book to me. And the great real life animals were a huge hit as well. He matched them up each day. And even funnier, there is a set of “cartoon” animals as well, but he didn’t want to play with those at all – he was all about the real pictures!

IMG_0169 He tried the line tracing, just drew straight lines to each object (some were zigzag or curvy), but hey – that’s cool too.

IMG_0167 He also decided he would play the roll & graph game all on his own. hehe Then he also played it with Big Brother.

Thing Two also enjoyed his Very Hungry Caterpillar Tot Book activities (we did this because the caterpillar becomes a butterfly).

IMG_0148 IMG_0149 IMG_0151 IMG_0153  This is a great pack – lots to do and he has played with it many, many times throughout the year.

He also enjoyed some of the LOTW Letter B games and some Bee Activities from 2 Teaching Mommies.

IMG_0132 IMG_0133 He couldn’t really get the hang of the spinner, but he still had lots of fun trying it out.

IMG_0117 IMG_0176 IMG_0122 He took out ALL out LOTW lacing. He said he wanted ME to do them all. HA HA HA not happening!

IMG_0157 IMG_0173  IMG_0137  I was surprised this week he was actually interested in trying to actually follow the lines and trace. He usually just scribbles these pages, and I don’t often give him a tracer activity unless he would ask. In the future, he’ll be getting LOTW all to himself and then I’ll be having him work on his tracing and counting more regularly. Right now he’s just having lots of fun during our school time.

Well, that’s it – our last week..based off of Thing One’s movement through the LOTW PreK/K4 curriculum. Stay tuned for what’s next for Thing Two. :-)

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Butterflies, Bees, and Brown Bear

Our last letter!  Butterfly activities are from LOTW, Bee activities are from 2 Teaching Mommies, and Brown Bear, Brown Bear (what do you see?) is from 1+1+1=1.

IMG_0118 IMG_0147 IMG_0178 IMG_0128 IMG_0150 A couple different number activities. I had him order 1-10 but we didn’t add items to each card this week. Then I printed twice as many butterflies for the “How Many Butterflies” counting activity, so we could go to 20. I have done this for many of the letters – I just wrote 11-20 in the backs of LOTW’s 1-10 cards before I laminated them and then we use the same set of cards for each week they are needed. So, I don’t print new ones for each letter (though they are colored to go with the different themes, but he doesn’t notice that at all).

IMG_0154 IMG_0158 IMG_0160 Patterning, Milk Cap Spelling (letter matching), and a Butterfly Puzzle which I cut into “crazy” pieces It was a little challenging for him – but that was my objective :-)

IMG_0132 IMG_0133 IMG_0182The boys did some of our Bee activities together. They liked the Spin & Graph, but the spinner was not as fun as tossing a di. It was also tricking to get it to spin, but it was still fun. Thing One did the counting clip cards all alone while I was helping Thing Two with something – I was pleased he sat and did it all himself without complaints. And the were all correct too! :-)

IMG_0179 IMG_0181 The Brown Bear activities were –by far- the biggest hit of the week. They were my favorite too. SUCH cute graphics. The great thing about most packs from around the web is they are so versatile. We used what were meant for sentence strips (to help retell the story) for color-word practice.

IMG_0184 IMG_0185 Three Part Cards: After Thing Two matched up all the “animal friends” I had Thing One come over and match up the words. I had him read off the letters in each word and then he had to find the word that matched on the correct cards. Some words he knew by sight or from random cvc activates that I have tried with him (“cat” seems to be one word he memorized). Other words he figured by the beginning letter (horse), others he had to compare to several words before he chose the correct match.

IMG_0137 IMG_0161 IMG_0170 IMG_0177Various crafts from LOTW. His cutting was pretty good this week, but still needs a lot of practice.

IMG_0163 IMG_0165 IMG_0168 IMG_0189 We made coffee filter butterflies. I remember doing this when I was little! Fold the filter in half and in half again.

  1. Color the coffee filter completely with markers.
  2. Drop water on it (we used a straw, if you’re fancy and have one, a dropper works better to control the amount of water).
  3. When it’s all wet, open it up and the colors will have bled to the rest of the filter. Let them dry about an hour or so…depending on how wet they are.
  4. Fan-fold the filter and stick it in a clothes pin. Spread out the wings and TA-DA! Butterfly clips. (You can also add pipe cleaners for the antenna, which I realize we forgot now that I am looking at the picture.) :-)

It’s been a great 28 weeks of officially homeschooling for Preschool. What’s next? A few weeks of break and a little bit of fun review. Maybe. We might not even “review” anything. I am not 100% sure yet. Though I am certain they will miss the routine of schooling if we don’t at least do something. I have gathered materials for Kindergarten – a lot of which requires planning and prep on my part because I chose to grab our subjects from everywhere rather than going with a boxed plan.

I do know I more or less see us as year-round scholars, simply because it makes the most sense with learning. I have always thought that about any type of school, even when I was a kid in high school – lots of smaller breaks make more sense than one big one when you have more time to forget everything.

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