Week 8

Not a lot of photos from this week.  The camera didn't get the usual workout that it would normally get.  Overall the first 3 days were pretty productive, but Thursday ended up being lost.   It's not every week that we lose a day, but we did this week.

What I did get for show and tell this week:

Hannah did a living / non-living cut and paste.

We also did a little review on some phonograms.

Then we used the white board to do the words again.

This is what Hannah { 3y11m } read to me this morning:

Chloe had a play with one of my maths centers.

Phebe started a new book today:

This is a Grade 1 reader and we're only in March, so we're doing ok.

And a little picture of Charlotte to finish off.  This week I finally got serious about weaning her.  All done and dusted.

Time to go and get some more work done.

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ABC Cowboy { freebie }

Last week I offered a "feminine" ABC Cowboy worksheet, so this week I'd like to offer a "masculine" one.  

Just click the worksheet to download.  :o)

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Cowboy Math Centers

And just when I thought I was going to take a break from Cowboy stuff I thought, hey, why don't I add a couple more math centers for fun?

So I got out my cutest ever Cowboy and Base 10 clipart.

Then I put together 2 new math centers.  They can be used separately or together.

{ Set 1 - 9 pairs = 18 cards }

{ Set 2 - 9 pairs = 18 cards }

3 different, but similar single recording worksheets.

Or a recording worksheet where you can do both sets on the same page.

 And I even added answers just in case you want to get the children to mark their own work.

So what do you think?

If you're interested in grabbing a free copy just leave me a hello comment in the box below and I'll put your name in the hat for a drawing out on Saturday morning.Thanks for visiting.

Cowboy Multiple Phonogram Games + { freebie }

Wow, 3 freebies in a row.  Don't forget to go and check out my last couple of posts.

But before we get there though I just want to do a quick little show and tell with my latest offering.

A Cowboy Multiple Phonogram Games pack.

I am particularly fond of the Spalding method as are quite a number of very well to do spelling curriculums that are available these days.  They've discovered the same thing that I've known for nearly 20 years.  Phonics and rules work.

It even has recording worksheets as well.  Feel free to use them anyway that works for your student.  Please know that I tweak them to suit my individual children.  Miss 3 currently only writes out her sounds as she travels around the board.  Miss 7 writes the sound on one side and her word with that sound on the other side.  Ideally it is designed for the child to write a word and underline the phonogram sound in the word.  Just use them according to the ability of your student/s.

Two recording sheets per page.

{ For your FREE sample just click the worksheet below. }

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Cowboy Months / Days of Week { freebie }

Today I have another freebie for you.

Months of the Year and Days of the Week recording worksheets which are designed to work with my Cowboy centers.  It works without it too, so if you don't have the book you'll still be able to use them.

Just click the worksheet to download them.

{ There are 2 Months of the Year centers, and 3 Days of the Week centers in the Cowboy & Cowgirl book, just in case you wondered }.  This is so you can rotate them around for a change.

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Cowboy Antonym { freebie }

Just a super quick little post today to give you all a recording worksheet for the Antonym Centers from my Cowboy & Cowgirl book.

Choose an Antonym center { 1, 2, or 3 } and write their matches down on the worksheet.

Just click the worksheet to download.

Got a big day on today.  Back to school full time.

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Cowboys & Cowgirls

After I worked on the cowboy spelling page I started thinking, I'll just put this little Day Pack together.  So I ended up with a day pack.

{ Cover page }

{ Cowboy Facts }

 {Q & A worksheet }

{ part 2 of the double sided can, have, are flip book }

Instructions are also included in the file.  I thought - cool, now I have some printables to go with a couple of books that I have on the shelf for next term when we resume for project time.  Then I popped it up on TpT and went off to do something else in the house.

But it wasn't long before I sat down in front of the computer again.

Then I thought, I'll just work on some cowboy themed writing papers for Hannah.  I usually make these so she has something to write on, do copy work with, or just fun with.  So I just re-themed some older papers and we were good to go.

And THEN,

Well, you know what happened next?

Yep.

I thought to myself, I'll just make a couple of worksheets for this cowboy theme.

And the next thing you know, the day was GONE.   The children were sound asleep; but I had an awesome 68 page workbook full of printables:  a heap of worksheets and activities for center work sitting on my laptop.

Oh, you'd like to see what's in it?

Yes, yes, please sit down and have a peek and gander at what I put in this little book.  :o)  You can even click on the sample frames and get a bigger view of what's in there.

So, do you like my samples?  I got carried away with myself with doing the show and tell part, but it'll be good for people who want to know what I put in there.

And yep, then I went and popped it up on TpT.

So now, I really think I'm all good to go for project time in our house for a little while.

AND now here's the most exciting part of this whole post - the celebration part, and thank you if you've manage to read down to here.  If you are interested in getting a copy of my little workbook - Cowboys & Cowgirls, for free, just leave me a hello in the comment section and I'll put your name in the cup for a drawing out on Saturday morning.  I'll be giving TWO very fortunate visitors a free copy each.  See you on Saturday when I find out whose names I pull out of my cup, bowl, tin.

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Cowboy Spelling { freebie }

I'm taking the last few days of our break as slowly as I can.  Doesn't really say much for relaxing, since my days are still really full on.  

The two older girls continue to do some maths, and pretty much the whole family has gotten into music.  We've had some really fantastic new additions to our curriculum recently.  This has resulted in the girls enthusiasm for these two subjects being high on the charts.  So I've just been making the most of it. :o)

This week I was putting together a new play form for Chloe's ABC Order work for when she does spelling.  The one I made last term was a bit squishy as I tried to get two lots of ABC order on the one page.  So for this term I thought that I'd just put one set on each page and see how that goes.

Then I thought of all of you.

Yes, yes I did.

So then I tweaked it a little more and made a generic worksheet so that anyone can use it with any list of words.

I hope you like 'Cowgirl' as a theme.  :o)

Just click the worksheet to download your FREE copy.

During the course of the next term I am hoping to add some different pictures to keep giving it fresh new looks.  You can never go wrong with cute graphics.  :o)

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