There was an Old Lady who Swallowed...

A Fly  and A Pie!!
We used both these books this week.  Starting with the traditional one for a couple days, then did the Pie for the last couple days.  I thought the Pie book would lead us right into our Thanksgiving theme!  Along with our books we did lots of repetition and sequencing this week.

Letter: Yy
Color:  White
Number:  11
Verse:  You are my friend if you do what I command of you.   Lots of good discuss with this verse and others this week, like "Honor your Father and Mother" is what God commands you. :))) 

Books we used: 

Highlights:

Magnet retelling

more magnets (we did a lot with magnets this week) Number correspondence

Well, Tuesday we did nothing "themed" so I took a picture of the trays for the day.  Hoping to refinish an old bookshelf and get new trays after Christmas.

This is the best and longest she has laced these things! Yay GB!

Acting out the story!  It's okay to laugh at our old lady! ;)) plastic jar,yard,felt and my apron!  It was great fun and you would be amazed at all the stuff that lady ate! ;)

About to eat a slinky dog. :)

lacing foam beads, and of course making it a pattern

Luke chose all the round ones. Hard at work!

This was her favorite and we repeated often and with the "pie" book pictures

Magnet pictures-find the letter it starts with, then write the letter on her glitter bag.

something new- (1+1+1=1) Letter mazes with magnet pompoms.  We printed several letters and it kept her busy for awhile!

Retelling cards and used here for beginning sounds

printable from..? Pinterest :)

Finally, making mini Pumpkin pies

Great way to share your pies; Minis

We used white bread sandwich and moz cheese with peeled apples for our white lunch.  We called our sweet potatos - Yams. :) Fun lunches were kinda boring this week, except for the reading and retelling of one of these books everytime we sat down at the table.  I introduced the book while they were eating on Monday.

Autumn or Fall Fun

I love Fall! Actually, I like all seasons except Winter!

Letter: Vv /v/  GB makes the /p/ and /f/ sounds instead of /v/.
Shape: triangle
Color: brown
Number:10
RRS Verse: Verly, Verly, I say to you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.  John 6:47

I decided to skip the concept/goal part- I know what our goals are and well, anyone that reads this probably doesn't care about that part! ;)

Books we used:

Highlights from our Fall Fun Week:

Bag of fake leaves....so many uses!  Sort

patterns, counting, we even played a few games of "find the hidden leaf" and "follow the leaf trail".

Small, medium, large with counting

abc leaves, she put them in order (with a little help), sang the abcs, I would say a letter she would find it and say the sound, she spelled her name and Luk (only 1 e)! :)

and of course she noticed the pattern! :)

counting owls

owl number correspondence/counting

acorn memory with shapes

picture match-this was really for L

Fall color painting with q-tips

hand-fingertip Fall trees

letter puzzles

cooking- we have been doing a lot of baking this week.

shape scarecrows- L's is on orange, GB's on Red

writing practice and dotting

scarecrow puzzle by numbers and counting cards.

These 2 were very popular this week.

Printables from homeschool creations

beginning letter sounds.  This is our first time with these and she did great.  I didn't have to tell her any of them.  Just that the apples were in a bushel-she couldn't find an A. :)

She loves those clips! They even make good hair accessories. :)  I had them in my teaching stuff (staples), but never used them until 2 weeks ago.

Nature Walk

all their collection

Leaf rubbings- Maybe this is better with older kids, we really weren't seeing much of the leaves after she colored over.  I held her hand on the orange one you can see. :)

Leaf sandwiches on festive plates.  That's pretty much a summary of our festive food, other than grilled cheeses shaped like acorns and using our pumpkin cups and Fall plates. Lots of leave and acorn shaped snacks too.  Cheese shaped leaves and crackers were the favorite.

Fun in the Fall leaves. 



I'm behind a week, so hopefully I'll find some time to share.  "There was an Old Lady" coming soon. :)

Halloween Fun

All our pumpkin fun the last couple weeks lead us right into a Halloween theme week. I love holiday themes, don't you?!

Our letter was: X
Color: black
Number: well, we didn't cover 1 number. :)
Shape: opps-missed that this week too.  we did all shapes! ;)
Verse: EXcept you be converted and become as little children, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.  Matthew 18:3

Our goals/concepts
regconize letter X
Halloween is just fun!
Scary costumes are just costumes
Say and understand verse and Bible story

Books we used:

Each year we buy the littles a book for Halloween(well every holiday).  And so does my mom, not to mention a few books I had from teaching.  We have plenty books around here, especially holiday books! ;)

Highlights of our Week:  We used a lot of our pumpkin tools from the last couple weeks for "pick a tray time" or free choice, these pictures should be of new stuff. :

Thongs and mini erasers into pumpkin tray, we used all three sets of thongs, big, medium and tweezers

Painting her Princess Halloween page- (this was what she choose to spend her dollar on-we love the dollar tree for our school stuff)

spider and bat rings into mini Jack o Laterns

I wasn't planning this to be a sorting lesson, but once again she is a great learner/teacher.  She first sorted the rings and then put them in the correct place with tweezers.

Lots of fun with both littles.  Felt pumpkin with lots of shapes and mouths to make funny faces.  You can't tell in photo, but their is also a felt P and she used it as the stem this time. :)

candy corn counting!

toliet paper ghost/pumpkin bowling!  Fun stuff!

Fishing letters out of Jack O Lanterns- say letter and sound

Putting together a pumpkin flashlight

Candy Sort...by kind, color, size.  She even made a candy pattern and counted her groups.  Who knew candy was such a great learning tool!

Because I didn't get many pictures of L doing school.  Can you say ornery?!

foam craft kit

Candy corn waffles

Pumpkin Rice Krispies

failed attempt at Jack o Lantern muffins, they look more like eggs and you couldn't see the faces.

Making spiders

Our Jack O Lanterns for the year-  I did the cat! :)