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Oct 31, 2011

F is for Fish Week

Learning the Letter F
It has taken a little time but my little engineer is finally starting to 'like' school. He says, "Let's play school." I'm not sure if this is a good thing but for now I'm not really worried about it. To refresh we are following the Confessions of a Homeschooler curriculum. Here's what he worked on:

We started with Leap frog Ff song...The F say ffff the F says ffff every letter makes a sound the F says ffff. And letter F fish lacing and fish lacing.

These are  numberclip cards. We started with large clothespins...

Then went to small because they fit better on the cards. We also use paperclips for these.

These are upper/lower case practice with wooden letters disks. The Engineer loves this one hence the cheesy smile

Size sorting fishes. He's still getting the hang of this activity but now corrects himself when he realizes his mistake.

Dot-A-Dot markers are another fun activity part of the curriculum.


This activity is beginning letter writing  practice. These are laminated for reuse.






























It's always great to use the stuff you already have in your toy collection for school. This magnet fish puzzle was a huge hit with the Little Engineer.
The absolute favorite during the week was the Letter Ff Scavenger Hunt. I took an old easter basket and hid things around the living room. The following items are everyday household stuff that I know a lot of people have. Then we sat down after he was done and talked about each item and its Ff starting sound.
 

F is for Freight cars
Flute








            
Florida
Letter F links
Feet

                                                  
Firefly


Finding things
Five

Flashlight


Firetruck
We glued fall colored feathers on a collage page




Color matching puzzles

Pattern activity
Number counting activity

Number graphing pages are so much fun. My little Engineer picks out different things, like pom-poms, to use for counting each week. Then he places the number of items on the page.

Upper F lower f sorting

Pom pom magnets activity

A simple but fun coloring page

fish puzzle

Another pattern matching activity.



Cutting practice

Cutting and pasting practice


We did many other things such as Letter Ff tracing, floor numbers with fish cards, a fish lap book, a poke page, a paint bag, and used foam letters to make the letter F, and lacing beads. We went on a mini-field trip next door to look at the fish swimming in the neighbors pond. And lastly but never least, went over our F memory verse daily: For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23























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Building Fun

The boys finishing off the bridge supports.
Stability is the key to a successful run as well as an evenly rounded loop so the cars do not jump the track.

The Engineer is camera shy :)
Test Run Numero Uno

Later Dad (the real engineer) made sure the lego bridge was structurally sound  so that it wouldn't collapse is a small persons hand used it as a crutch to stand up.

Oct 14, 2011

Workbook Friday AKA Happy Camper Free-style Day (yes I just made a snowboarding reference!)

The Engineer practicing his letter in his Brain Quest Pre-K book.
Jr. practicing his letters in his Kumon book














On Fridays we keep things light and simple. I let the boys pick out which activities they'd like to do instead of following their specific curriculum's. 

Then the Engineer picked out Kumon first book of cutting.

The boys both concentrate well when cutting, I'm not sure but I think it will improve their hand/eye coordination.

The Engineer tracing and learning his numbers. I cannot believe we are already finishing up week seven.

Jr. working in his Scholastic beginning math level 1 workbook. He tends to go a little fast with math because he likes it but I have to gently remind him that he needs to actually absorb the material plus its for first graders so he'll probably be reviewing it all again next year.

Next the Engineer wanted to try out cutting and pasting from his Kumon workbook. Boys are so much more hands on when it comes to-well-everything! They would go through a whole book if I let them.

Jr. cut out a pickle piece.

Then insisted on including the picture on the page of what its supposed to look like, after he was done.


And how do I manage this with the TQB running around? By keeping the tiny queen bee busy with play-dough at the end of the table. She usually last only 15-20minuetes at a time per activity. But still is so happy!

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