Sunday, May 24, 2015

{ Letter r }

This week Charlotte worked on the letter { r }.


{ Rr }


I love these types of coloring pages.
So many pictures hidden within the picture and yep, these ones all start with { r }.


Hats.


An easy and quick project, but always a favourite with the girls.


Writing.


{ r } is for rooster.
Isn't he the cutest?


Worksheets.
The one on the right [ my Rr puzzle ] came from a download I bought off TpT.



A { Rr } Red Apple Tree with a raccoon eating a red apple.


{ r } is for road.


Painting and another worksheet.
{ r } is for red.


More hats, but first we must colour some pictures for the hat.


Then she cut them out and I put them on a band for her.


Pre-writing skills.
This one was a freebie by Mel over at The Pond.


{ r } is for rocket.


Whew!!  If you made it this far you might be a little { Rr'd } out at the moment, like Charlotte.  :o)

This weeks worksheets:



If you need some more worksheets for the letter { Rr } I have this pack available in my store.
It is currently up to 35 pages of printables.

{ Rr } Letter of the Week

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Friday, May 22, 2015

{ Anaconda Writing Materials }

This week I put together a little writing packet on the Anaconda Boa Constrictor found in South America.

{ Anaconda Reading and Writing }

I included a little written piece to start the unit off.  It has both an Australian and American versions in the file.  That way I can get the children's interest from the outset and start them off nice and gently.

Also included are task cards and writing pages, with plenty of worksheets and interactive notebook pages to complete the unit.


There are 9 different activities.  Plenty to keep one busy for about 2 weeks of writing.

Activities included:

Reading
Note taking
Opinion Writing
Narrative Writing
Informational Writing
Procedural Writing
Vocabulary
Fact & Opinion


I was super pleased with how it came out.

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Thursday, May 21, 2015

{ Week 19 }

This week we began a new book in our read alouds:  

The Story Book of Science by Henri Jean Fabre.  So far it's been a great hit.  The girls are really loving it.  It can be found for free at mainlesson.com, just click the cover to go there.  I also managed to secure a very nice full pdf version from online as well, { that's what I printed - it just saved me a ton of time instead of getting it all in piece meal from the Baldwin Project page. }

[Cover]


Also, this week I purchased the next ELA Interactive Notebook by Mandy Gregory in the series for the girls - we are using it for some of their activity time.  { Each day I give the girls a different worksheet activity - basically some busy work to consolidate or review things they should be able to do.  I use all different worksheets, from all different scources, and this week some of it will be from this book. }  Just click the cover to go and check it out on TpT.

End of the Year ELA Interactive Notebook (2nd Grade)



We also did some work out of this book for activity time as well.

Aesop Fables - The Kingdom of the Lion

ABC Order & some word definitions.
These words are taken from the Fable - Kingdom of the Lion.
The word meanings are written under the little flaps.


A meal at my place, no meat, just lots of vegetables and noodles.


Now that the girls have pretty much finished reading and writing their way through a heap of their text book I gave them all a copy of the test booklets to complete.  I've only scheduled a page per lesson time, slow and steady wins the race.  I've also told them that it's open book.  So they can use their text book to help find the answers IF they want to.  But you know children, rush, rush, rush - no time for that mum!  They just want to get through it whether its right or wrong.  If they get too many wrong I might get ugly on them though.  Yep, I'm scoring them!  I have the answers in the teachers manuals.  ha ha ha.


Noah asleep in his walker.  It's amazing how quickly they fall asleep.  One minute you can hear them making noise and the next, asleep.  After a quick photo it was off to the cot for him.


Thought I'd encourage the maths along by using a white board.
The 6 year old ended up taking longer.
The 10 year old ended up getting her work done quicker.

Although to be fair, Miss 6 did 8 lessons in 4 days this week, so I should totally cut her some slack considering her level and output.


This week we worked on poetry for copywork.



Hannah has started this book for devotions:



I like how the stories are short.  I also like that they have questions at the end.


Current devotions:



Reading Shakespeare:

We finished 'The Tempest' and have now begun ' A Midsummer Night's Dream'.



From our Encyclopedia we read about:

Aconcagua
Acoustics
Adams, John Couch
Adaptation
Adelaide
Adhesives
Adler, Alfred
Advertising
Aerosol
Aesop
Aerospace
Afghanistan
Africa
African Art

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And that my friends ends this weeks summary.

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This week I'll be linking up with:



I hope you will join us.



Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

ha, ha, ha, so true.

Saturday, May 16, 2015

{ Letter m }


This week I decided to do a letter that Charlotte was already pretty familiar with,
the letter { m }.


Charlotte loved this page.  It was easy, and fun for her.


See the little girl mermaid?  Yep, that's Charlotte, if you ask her!


This turned out to be a little harder than we thought
{ fine motor grasping skills need to be developed }.


A new activity; roll the die and trace the letter that corresponds to the die.  When all the upper OR lower case letters are done, the game is over - regardless of the remaining other case.


Just practice pages.


I LOVED that I just gave this following worksheet to her WHOLE and she went off and this was the result:  completed without assistance.  Yay~!!


A few more practice pages.


A little flip book.


Inside:  paste the correct picture and write the letter { m }.
What you can't see is that I wrote a { m } in silver pencil for her to trace.  :o)
That's how she managed to get those m's looking so good.
It's all about helping them have "successful" learning.


This weeks worksheets, just click each one to download.

This week I've also included a page for "stamping" the letter { m } too.


And yep, you won't believe it, but I managed to make 6 pages for cut and paste this week.


Enjoy!!

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