Nov. 8-27th, 2010...FIELD TRIP!!! YAY! On Nov. 8th we went to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Lili and Gabi both had a great time. Lili's favorite part was the sharks and I think Gabi's favorite was seeing "Nemo", clown fish. I requested a few books about some of the ocean life we would be seeing at the aquarium so that the rest of the week we could use that as our topic. We looked up information about sharks since that was Lili's favorite. She colored a picture of a shark and then wrote a few facts about them on the sheet. She colored a map of the world to show where the oceans are. In addition to our theme of the week we also practiced telling time on the clock and read some of our own books.
Week of the 15th...we colored some Thanksgiving pictures, practiced math with the dry erase sheets from Uncle Tom, read books, talked about and found on the books where the authors name and the illustrators names are and what those people did to make the book, we did a few pages in our workbooks, we got out our crayons, a sheet of paper and some lids, buckets, cups and some square items. traced around the bottoms to make circles and squares of different colors and sizes all over the paper then created a pretty picture from our shapes (clock square and / or circle, tires, balloons, lollipop, flower, etc...). Lili really liked this activity.
Thanksgiving week was a short week. We only had school on Mon., Tues., and Wed. This week we made a big word wall and cut out shapes and pictures of Thanksgiving related things and wrote the word on them and taped them up on our word wall. Some of our Thanksgiving words were...family, fall, harvest, dinner, turkey, gobble, pumpkin pie, November, Indian, Pilgrim and parade. We also read some Thanksgiving books from the library, colored some Thanksgiving coloring pages, made turkeys with by tracing out hands and did some building work with legos and thingamajigs (yep, that is really what they are called) Happy Thanksgiving!!
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Fun in the Fall
Oct. 4 - Nov. 5, 2010....WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I Knew I was behind but didn't realize it had been a whole month since I posted. YIKES! Well here is our past month in a nutshell...
We read lots of books and took many trips to the library. We reviewed money and did some worksheets on coins. We read books about different types of tools. Lili completely a unit study on stranger awareness. There were several worksheets and a role playing activity that we did with her barbies. We played out different scenarios of stranger encounters. We took turns playing the stranger, kid and parent. At first the topic of strangers kind of scared Lili since it is sort of a negative topic but once we started the barbie roll play she felt better and had a lot of fun with it. She even asked me a few days later to play it again with the barbies.
We went on our first hayride at the pumpkin patch. Grammy came with too. Lili rode on a pony and went on a little train ride. We all went on the hay ride and picked out our own pumpkins. Lili picked out a really nice one and Gabi got a really cute little white one.
In preparation for a week theme of "seasons/weather" we raked a pile of leaves and the girls jumped in them!
For our seasons week we talked about and wrote down information on each season like...the weather, holidays, fun things to do and eat in each season. Lili drew a picture for each season and on the last day we created areas for each season. I piled up items on the couch for Lili to decide which season they belonged to. Such as...butterflies, flowers, gloves, hats, sun visors, Easter baskets with eggs, beach ball, coats, jackets, trick or treat pumpkin buckets, etc... We put down long sheet of paper in spring to be our sidewalk for sidewalk chalk and bike riding. In summer we put down a big blue blanket for water and set up some beach chairs, a beach ball, sunglasses and sun visors. In fall we had jackets, and Halloween items. For winter we lied out a white blanket with white pillows for snow and balled up white socks for snow balls (Yes, there were a few snowball fights, lol), coats, hats and gloves. The girls played in the seasons all day. Here are a few pics...
We had a week of Halloween fun too. We read lots of books about Halloween, we colored and drew pictures and we made glue ghosts. I thought I had a picture but I can't find it now :( We drew ghosts on wax paper and filled it all in with glue. We stuck googly eyes on them and painted a black mouth. They had to dry for a couple days. When they were dry they peeled right off the wax paper. They were a bit white but also quite transparent. Very cool looking. They are quite durable for just being Elmers/school glue.
Okay, all caught up :) That is all for now.
We read lots of books and took many trips to the library. We reviewed money and did some worksheets on coins. We read books about different types of tools. Lili completely a unit study on stranger awareness. There were several worksheets and a role playing activity that we did with her barbies. We played out different scenarios of stranger encounters. We took turns playing the stranger, kid and parent. At first the topic of strangers kind of scared Lili since it is sort of a negative topic but once we started the barbie roll play she felt better and had a lot of fun with it. She even asked me a few days later to play it again with the barbies.
We went on our first hayride at the pumpkin patch. Grammy came with too. Lili rode on a pony and went on a little train ride. We all went on the hay ride and picked out our own pumpkins. Lili picked out a really nice one and Gabi got a really cute little white one.
In preparation for a week theme of "seasons/weather" we raked a pile of leaves and the girls jumped in them!
For our seasons week we talked about and wrote down information on each season like...the weather, holidays, fun things to do and eat in each season. Lili drew a picture for each season and on the last day we created areas for each season. I piled up items on the couch for Lili to decide which season they belonged to. Such as...butterflies, flowers, gloves, hats, sun visors, Easter baskets with eggs, beach ball, coats, jackets, trick or treat pumpkin buckets, etc... We put down long sheet of paper in spring to be our sidewalk for sidewalk chalk and bike riding. In summer we put down a big blue blanket for water and set up some beach chairs, a beach ball, sunglasses and sun visors. In fall we had jackets, and Halloween items. For winter we lied out a white blanket with white pillows for snow and balled up white socks for snow balls (Yes, there were a few snowball fights, lol), coats, hats and gloves. The girls played in the seasons all day. Here are a few pics...
We had a week of Halloween fun too. We read lots of books about Halloween, we colored and drew pictures and we made glue ghosts. I thought I had a picture but I can't find it now :( We drew ghosts on wax paper and filled it all in with glue. We stuck googly eyes on them and painted a black mouth. They had to dry for a couple days. When they were dry they peeled right off the wax paper. They were a bit white but also quite transparent. Very cool looking. They are quite durable for just being Elmers/school glue.
Okay, all caught up :) That is all for now.
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