{ Ff } is for Fox

Working our way through the remaining alphabet....

{ Ff } is for Fox

Letter of the Week { Ff }

Today we are jumping over /d/ and /e/ since they are so similar to /b/ and /c/ and going to the letter { Ff }.  We'll back track later for those other two letters.

Here are this weeks files.  You'll have to click on each part separately to download them all.

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Week 9

This week a bunch of the children got sick with a stomach bug given to them via their big brother, who obviously picked it up from work and so kindly brought it home to share.  So yeah, a few days of not so much fun.

Looking forward to Friday evening when our oldest son, who lives on the other side of Australia comes to visit.

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How I ask my girls to give me a one paragraph oral NARRATION.

First they READ a passage.

Me: What is the topic / main idea?

Child: Tells me the topic / main idea - usually the chapter title.

Me: Give me 5 details.

Child:
1. detail full sentence
2. detail full sentence
3. detail full sentence
4. detail full sentence
5. detail full sentence

Optional ending - opinion sentence { what they thought of a particular thing. }

The end.

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Craft for Miss 4 this week: { Ll is for ladybug }

Then I read this book to her for fun { and a little information }.

Miss 10 read this book:

Miss 6 read this, yes in its entirety, by herself:

We also spent a little time working on outlining a paragraph using 'key words'.

Outlining is a key skill for clear and precise writing.  It's also good for comprehension as well.  It takes a while to be able to do it competently, but we are making good progress.

It's amazing when the children learn the basic format: topic sentence { main idea }, detail, detail, detail etc...  and then being able to pick out the key words - once they get that they start flying.  It all ties in beautifully when teaching a child to write well.

Of course another week, another Van Gogh.  :o)

Drawn by Chloe { 10 }, colored by Charlotte { 4 }.

This week I thought I'd share another worksheet from my Scrappy Initial Letter Sounds.

Just click the worksheet to download.

Today I'll be linking up with:

I hope you will join us.

Writing My Numerals - Mermaid

Today I have Writing My Numerals - Mermaid available for you to download.

Just click any picture to download.

They are perfect for your little ones just learning to write their numerals.

This week we hit up the number 5.

And a super cute craft for the letter { f }.

We also attempted an interactive cvc page.

It was a bit ahead of the game, but I thought I'd offer it to Miss 3 to see her reaction.

Little Noah can crawl and sit by himself!  He also cut his 3rd tooth.  { Upper top right }

This week I'll be joining up with:

I hope you will join us.

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{ Letter f }

This week Charlotte worked on the letter { f }.

{ f } is for fire,

flamingo,

fish,

and more fish.

Worksheets.  This week we also did a game board.

And some counting.

You can get a copy of these counting cards { to 10 } for FREE from my store.  Just click the card below to go there and get them.  I've had my set for years, but they've kept so well because they are  laminated.  I use laminated cut out pictures as the manipulative counters, but other things will work too.

Hannah decided that she wanted to join in and color too.  Sorry you all missed out on photos of the hats this week.  :o)

Charlottes current set of flash cards that she practices as often as I remember.  I try daily.

This weeks worksheet share:

Don't forget to click on both of them separately to get both sets.

I've got some { more than 30 } worksheets here in this pack.

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Fold Up Books

Time to add some more mini fold up books. :o)

These are all the ones that I've got at the moment in this set.

Just click any page to download the current book.

 

Today I'm linking up with:



and



I hope you will join us.  :o)

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Game boards Freebie

 

It's been a while since I gave you all an alphabet game board.

 

So I thought it would be nice to add a couple more.

 

Here's one for the letter / f /,

 

 

 

and one for the letter / g /.

 

 

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Alphabet Words e and f

 

 

Time for some more freebies to add to that little collection that we have going.