Magic E Printable Game

May 16, 2013

While I was on Jury Duty for the month of April, The Geek and I decided something needed to happen so the boys could keep up with school. Especially because they just had a month or so off for our move! Thankfully The Geek’s boss was willing to let him adjust his schedule a bit. So…The Geek took on the role of teacher a few hours each morning!

He is not as obsessed with picture snapping as some people (ahem), but I did beg him to be sure and capture this new game for me! And, these are, literally, the only pictures he took. Maybe I should have been more specific. hahaha

The boys love anything that involves moving around – and especially anything that they have to “find,” let’s forget the part that the words aren’t really hiding…they are in plain sight all over the house…but hey.

Want to get the Magic E Word Hunt Game? All the words in this pack are also words BEFORE the Magic E is added (extra reading practice). You can hide them all around the house or the classroom. There are over 30 words to hunt and read!

Hope you enjoy this with your kiddos!

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Monster Word Spacers

April 21, 2013

I wanted to share something I created a few weeks ago for Micah to help him with his word spacing when he’s writing. This word spacer is the perfect 1/2 inch space between words. And, it is great for left or right hand writers! I looked and looked for one to actually buy, but commercial ones are all set up for right handed kids – with nothing to hold on the right side! With the Monster Word Spacer my left handed kiddo can hold this in place easily with his right hand while making the first letter of the next word with his left.

And – it’s monster themed – so there’s extra fun there too. I printed on card stock laminated, and cut it out. I think printing on regular paper would work just fine too (and would have been a lot easier to cut out after it’s all stiff from the lamination!). Just click the image below to download your spacers (be sure to print at 100% or “full size” to ensure your monsters are the right size). Enjoy!

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Weekly Wrap Up {RRS Letter M}

April 5, 2013

Well, it has been…a while…since I’ve had any time to devote to blogging. There are many changes going on in our lives right now. It happens. Hopefully the changes of the past few months {and those in coming months} will be fruitful on all fronts.

In the mean time, we’re back at school, which is lending some calm to our days. And, we’re in our NEW school room! Here is our week in photos.

Thing Two’s Preschool Activities

Thing Two’s activities came from the usual places: Raising Rock Stars Preschool (I use several of the Kindergarten RRS activities with him as well), Animal ABC, Letter if the Week Preschool, and also some of the Letter of the Week K4 activities too.

: M for mouse (Animal ABC)

: Monkey patterning (LOTW)

: Letter Mm maze (1+1+1=1)

: m for mole (Animal ABC)

: m and m patterning (LOTW)

: monkey patterning (LOTW)

: Mm dot paint (LOTW)

: things that start with m (RRSK)

: Puzzle (LOTW)

: Monster Truck number order puzzle (1+1+1=1)

: Number ordering monkey cards (LOTW)

: Follow the directions coloring. Thing One READ this sheet for him. I am so proud! (RRSK)

: Size Sequencing (LOTW)

: Milk Cap SPelling (LOTW)

Kindergarten with Thing One

For Micah, I recently realized, we are actually into -mostly- 1st grade level work. But we’re still working on counting up to our 180 “official” days of Kindergarten. So, do with that what you will. At some point I guess I’ll have to figure out his grade, but for now we don’t have to report to the state of Washington until he’s 8. I am tracking our days/hours (as they require) NOW so I am in the habit of good record keeping for later. I’ll just keep going at whatever pace he sets academically until I have to officially label him in a grade for our state in a couple years.

: Letter Mm maze (yeah, a bit under his level, but it is something easy and fun to mix into his day!)

: Math: We use Math-U-See and are into the Alpha level.

: Tallying up our weather from March and noting the least and most weather days. This is part of the calendar book I created for him. I am working on implementing a few more things to out books and then plan to share it with you. :-)

: Ordering his RRS verse (RRSK)

: working on adding doubles. I found this awesome worksheet on education.com and seriously thinking of paying for the subscription access. Awesome site!!!

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Weekly Wrap Up {RRS Ff}

February 8, 2013

Thing One (aka Micah) had some fun this week reviewing his 2′s Math Facts with a Lego Math Printable from View from the Pew. He loves building with Legos – so practicing his math with Legos was an instant hit!

: He like it enough that he didn’t think it was “work.” Haha – Mama 1, Micah 0

: I drew the + and = on our school table with a overhead marker (do people still call them that?!) so he could build the problems and we could wipe it off after we were done.

: Other than a backwards 5 – I’d call this a success full math day!

Letter F Activities

: RRS Letter flash cards – he cuts and glues them to a page that is the color of the week. then we put them in a page protector and into his RRS binder.

: ABC Animal FRog color & trace sheet

: ABC Animals Frog Dot Fun Page

: RRS Follow the DIrections Shape Coloring

: playing with some letter F flash cards I made and colored for the boys a couple years ago.

: COAH’s LOTW Fish Size Sequencing

: LOTW Fish Counting/Grpahing

: LOTW Fish Patterns

: Get Animal ABCs!

: Get RSS P or K for your littles!

Mr. Micah’s K Stuff

: For God so loved the world, He gave us what, Micah? — “It’s Eternal Life Mama!”

: Reason for Handwriting

: Our “Today is…” calendar sheet

: Reading worksheet

: Math-U-See!

: Coloring a game for our reading program.

Our John 3:16 verse craft from Raising Rock Stars

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Weekly Wrap Up {RRS Ii}

January 24, 2013

Our Raising Rock Stars/Animal ABCs Weekly Theme Board.

I am so, so proud of Micah – he recited all of this memory verses up to this week for Raising Rock Stars. He’s a true Rock star!

I feel like I always give all of the camera attention to Ben (aka Thing 2), because he’s doing “fun” stuff. So, now, thanks to a “cool” phone, I can easily record Micah actually saying his Rock Star verses – and that makes him pretty excited and proud of himself. Especially when I told him we would send the video to grandma and grandpa. He loves to show off for people.

No idea where he gets that from, but thankfully I don’t think there’s any chance of you getting your hands on old videos of my sister and me at that age.

Micah the Rock Star!

And now, Letter Ii with Thing 2…

He had fun doing all kinds of activities from Animal ABCs and Raising Rock Stars (I am using both the RRSP & RRSK level activities with him).

: Camera Shy? Nah.

: That face! (shown: inchworm activities from LOTW)

: I called out numbers for him to find on the 1-20 iguana counting sheet.

: One of his favorite parts of the Rock Star (K) program is the letter collage. THe directions say to draw pictures, but we hunt for the them in magazines.

: Counting out “eggs” to the “mama inchworms.”

: We make a sheet of all his letter words each week for his Rock Star binder.

: Get RSS P or K for your littles!

: Get Animal ABCs!

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