11-26 - 11-30

Geography Unit Study

 -7 continents 

 -animals habitats on each  one

 -different people groups on each one

 -bible stories: Jonah and the Great commission

 -Memory verse : Mark 12:31 Love your neighbor as yourself.  

Activities:

-animal habitat cling game - also use the coninent clings to talk about where these habitats are

-map cling game

-dry erase things

-puzzles

-games: spot it, squence, bug pattern,

-button boards, make animal shapes, or a boat shape

-felt book

-dino lacing game

-dino bingo

-bird memory

-paint/color/stamp/dot animal habitat pictures

-animal puppets or people puppets: maybe act out one of the native myths/stories we are reading

-watch the fairy tales books on dvd

-work sheet

-play in the flour with the ocean animals

-color games

-counting games

Books:

Bible reading:

read the marked stories in the jsb, csb, nlt bible, cib, 

prmises for little hearts

what is god like

the lord is my shepherd - either one

Myths/Story:

shel silverstien- paul bunyon

mother goose

swahili counting book

why the sun and the moon live in the sky

brothers grim children's stories

tony's bread

raven

ashanti the spider

a crocodile's tale

Animal Books:

my little animal book

1001 animals to spot

all eyes on the pond

bats night fliers

where's that insect

bees

tigers

sea creatures

arachnids

the grouchy lady bug

fish is fish

sea watch (poetry)

is your mama a llama

from head to toe

Other:

it begins with an A

wing nuts: screwy haiku

on the day you were born

the hat

global babies

native american women

the world's great explorers

nora's castle

how leo learned to be king

shiver me letters

volcano

Monday:
-talked about south america
-looked at map of world and a map of the countries in south america
-watch a video of native a Brazilian dance
-talked about rain forest
-watch a video about jaguars hunting
-read global babies, pointed to where each baby is from on the map of the world
-talked about the poles, the equator and the different climates
-talked about north and south, up and down on a map
-read the story of jonah in the jsb, talked about loving everyone even mean people
-read is your mama a llama, talked about llamas in south america
-looked at the jungle page on the spot 1001 animals book, spotted and counted each animal
-made "Brazillian tacos" for dinner, ate bananas

Tuesday:

-talked about asia
-looked at asia on a map of the worlds and a map with all of the Asian countries
-talked about panda bears, only living in china, watched the you tube video of the panda sneezing
-talked about tigers, only living in asia, read a book about tigers
-talked about rice growing in china
-talked about origami in japan and that julian's brother lived there. tried to make origami stars
-read a crocodile's tale, a Philippine folk story
-read some haiku talked about syllables
-read jonahs story in the nlt
-practiced memory verse

advent links

http://godspace.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/celebrating-advent-with-kids/
http://www.cafod.org.uk/Pray/Advent-Calendar/Sunday-2-December/
http://www.share-christmas.com/kids/countdown/
http://www.ctkraleigh.org/resources/advent-devotional/

11-12 - 11-16

(Trying something new, again - I put all of these things in a basket for the week. I want to make a routine of blocks of time where we choose from these activities, and then record each day what we do)
  Zoo unit study
-letters and letter sounds
  - A words - autumn, ark, (ape, alliagator -emphasize the long and short difference here)
  - K words - kangaroo, kitten
  - G words - Gwennan, gorilla, goodnight
-goodnight gorilla unit study (http://www.homeschoolshare.com/goodnight_gorilla.php)
-Noah's Ark - God blesses those who obey  - We must obey God.  Acts 5:29
- Zookeepers try to make the animal's cages look like the habitats the came from... which are..?

Games/Activities:
sequence for kids
bird memory
letter puzzle
animal action/sound cards
spot it
habitat things
puzzles
number puzzles
dry erase books
work book pages (folder)
songs/finger play (also in folder)
mommy says
animal sticker book
button boards
letter tiles
dry erase boards with magnetic letters and animal clings
make a zoo with blocks and animal toys

Books:
2 poems, where the sidewalk ends
2 haikus
noahs ark from the jsb and the csb
2 psalms
put me in the zoo
brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?
ploar bear, polar bear, what do you hear?
From head to toe
snakes
gorillas
it begins with an A
all eyes on the pond
jump, frog, jump
z is for zookeeper
goodnight gorilla
my little animal book
spiders

Monday
-briefly talked about noah's ark, talked about memory verse
-read goodnight gorilla, carefully talking about letters, colors and habitats
-used animals and dryerase board made our own zoo... made shape cages (circle, square rectangle, triangle. talked about colors. wrote the first letter of each animal name, counted them, wrote the numbers 1-6)
-made a few animal cages with animal habitats

did memory verse puzzle

read:
polar bear polar bear
jump, frog, jump
noah's ark
z is for zookeeper
spiders
gorillas
noah's story from toddler bible
noah's story from csb

Tuesday
played with animal action/sound cards
did number puzzles and counting 1-8
read noah's ark in jsb
played with memory verse puzzle
read picture books for 2 blocks of 20 minutes
played with cousins
played dino train computer games
made a zoo
played with animal habitat scenes and cling animals


Wednesday
played with habiat games, learned about tapirs, watched tapirs on youtube:(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxZ2fsSSwL8)
played legos
played with tinker toys
played with letter tiles, Elias found and put all of his the letters from his name in order
Read the noah's ark story in the kids nlt bible
played with

Thursday
played hi ho cherryo
read:
from head to toe
noah's arc story from ag
polar bear book
bears
brown bear, brown bear, what do you see
my dinosaur
from the psalms book
papr bag princess
played the spot animals book, counting animals, talking about where and how they live
drew pictures of animal habitats for animals.
also, drew a lot of other neat dinosaur and animal picutres
talked about our memory verse
helped me make lunch

Friday

11-5 - 11-9

Monday
Planned:

Accomplished:

Tuesday

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Accomplished:

Wednesday

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Thursday

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Friday

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10/29 - 11-2

Monday
Planned:
-recover from a busy weekend

Accomplished:
-read books
-played spot it
-colored
-lots of play
-they each slept like 2.5 hours :)
-did puzzles

Tuesday

Planned:
-play with dry erase tings
-play bug sorting game

Accomplished:
-made puppets
-read books
-played with dry erase things



Wednesday

Planned:
(my doctor apt at 10)
-

Accomplished:
-played spot it
-read



Thursday

Planned:

Accomplished:
-painted
-did abc and number puzzles
-painted



Friday

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Accomplished:

October 22-26

Try to remember the reading time and dance party every morning. :)

Monday:
Planned:
- have the kids help me hang up labels of some things around the house
-get out where the sidewalk ends
-read abc rhyming book

Accomplished:
-read books in the am (mostly poetry)
-read abc rhyming book, made up some silly rhymes (which elias acted out)
-read some poems
-labeled a few things around the house
-played with magnet kit
-played with felt book
-sorted all of the legos by color while playing with them...
-played with mosaic tiles
-elias worked really hard on the lacing string cards, with significant improvement each time

Tuesday
Planned:
-read abc books
-read the pancake poem
-make pancakes and use the letter cookie cutters, have our name pancakes
-make up stories with finger puppets, sing songs, abc's, itsy bitsy spider, head and shoulders


Accomplished:
-made the pancakes, read he pancake poem
-went for a walk, talking about how different trees spread their seeds


Wednesday
Planned:
-More where the sidewalk ends
-and the a is for apple pie book
-make up some alphabet rhymes
-go to library
-read new books


Accomplished:

Thursday
Planned:
-read counting books
-use the story cards, count how many cards in each story
-homeschool group?

Accomplished

Friday
Planned:
-read letter books
-watch abc videos
-grocery shop

Accomplished:

What your kindergartner needs to know

Ideas of teaching reading a writing:

good programs...
- develop all aspects of language (reading, speaking, listening  and writing)
- surround the child with language. posters, name plates, word signs for everything
-strong knowledge of alphabet (upper and lower cases)
-explicitly and systematically develops phonetic awareness
-covers alphabetic principles
-is systematic
-teaches patterns

What i can do now

-read aloud
-play word/language games
-tell stories
-play games
-computer games
-play name or rhyming games


Reading aloud

- look at pictures first
-run finger below words
-discuss the sequence of events
-thing Who, what, when, where, why and how
-act it out