our week

March 19th - 23rd

We again didn't spend as much time in our school room this week, but we still did a fair amount. Mostly shelf work, though. We didn't do very much from our workboxes. That's okay, though! I never require her to do anything in particular.

Our shelves

Learning palette

She loves working with this but we never did get to

it this week. This was a new sheet she hadn't tried, yet.

I may put it back out next week. 

Kumon activities

A favorite as always. We did get to these. She really

loved the snowman one. She had to cut the strips of

paper into small pieces, then used her fingertip to

make a bunch of small dots of glue. Then we dumped

the "snowflakes" on the page and shook it around. 

Fraction pies

These have been sitting half done in my closet for

months and I finally finished them! I just let her

explore them this week. I told her how fractions

worked, but we didn't do any specific activities

to work on the concept.

Soaking up water

She had fun with this one. We filled the pitcher with

water and then she got to dump it on the tray. She

used the sponge to soak up the water from the tray

and squeezed all the water out into the bowl.

Magnet play

She uses the yellow magnet to sort out metal vs

non-metal items.  She went back to this one several

times.

Sand tray

This was just for having fun and tracing things in

the sand. She did some letters, but mostly just

made random lines and hand prints.

Color mixing

We had a lot of fun with this one! I filled the bottles

with red, yellow, and blue water and she used the

droppers to mix colors in the tray. We also used

card stock and paper towels to make pictures and

color wheels.

Art table

I was planning on this being two separate art activities

with the glitter glue being used on construction paper.

But she decided to use the glitter glue on one of the

pages from the watercolor book. It turned out cute!

Glitter glue painting

We dipped strips of paper towel into the tray to

better see the colors. Most of them looked too dark

in the tray to really tell the color. It was also fun

to watch the colors separate back out a little on

the paper towel strip after a couple minutes.

Color wheel. She used a toothpick to swirl the colors

together before laying the paper towel over the top.

Some were dripped straight on to the paper towel

and some of them were done first on card stock.

Some just for fun pictures!

On our way to the park on a beautiful day!

Love her choice of outfit. That's white

shortalls over a green shirt with a

green tutu. Too bad she didn't pick this

one out on the 17th!

Our week 3/12-3/16

We didn't spend as much time in the school room as we usually do. We had plans with friends a couple of days and the weather was really nice one day, so we spent most of it outside. Monday was the only day we spent as much time as usual in the school room and Tuesday we did a little bit.

Our shelves

Number play

This was mainly to practice tracing the #2, but I also

put 2 each of several items in the bowl. After pairing

them I was going to have us work on skip counting

by two's. But we didn't get to this one this week.

Kumon activities

We didn't do these this week. She saw them at one

point and was excited for it, but we never got back 

to it.

Phonics

This is always one of her favorite activities. I put

two animals for each letter in the bowl this time.

It only threw her off when she got to the 4th animal

she pulled out and it didn't match her remaining letter.

She tried to put it in the right spot and take the other

one off, but then it had no where to go. Once she

realized there could be two on the same letter, she

finished quickly.

Sticker mosaic

Usually a hit, but we didn't do it this week.

Counting puzzle

She had fun with this one, but it didn't challenge

her at all.

Lacing cards

She loves lacing as long as I don't put it out too

often. She chose the pig this week.

Transferring

Transferring using tongs. I also had her sort them.

She always loves transferring activities. This one

was a bit more challenging because these tongs

have more tension than the ones she usually uses.

I finally finished our light box. This has been on my to-do list for about 3 months, so I was excited to finally get to it. 

 

Some school-time pictures

Kumon workbooks

I don't usually get pictures of it or mention it, but

she LOVES her Kumon workbooks. Especially

mazes. We have a stack of workbooks and she

picks them almost every day. She will do a handful

of pages from each. She would go straight through

the entire book of mazes in one sitting if I didn't

slow her down!

I did something kind of crazy. I let her dump out

every container from my supply closet. It's mostly

all the different things I use for sensory tubs, sorting,

transferring, and phonics.

 She had a blast dumping them out and playing

in them! She called it "play soup". It was a much

bigger mess than it appears in the pictures! We

did at least get a little bit of educational value

out of it. We played "I spy" and worked on

being descriptive. It took myself and DH, with

"help" from Monkey, over half an hour

to get everything sorted back out and put

away. It was fun, but I think it will be a while

before we do Play Soup again!

Just a few fun non-school time pictures

Our week from March 5th-9th

Our Shelves

Pattern lacing

She loves this one and picks it every day. After following

the patterns she likes to just string a bunch of beads and

pretend it's a snake.

Classification cards

She really liked doing this one. She was so excited as

she named where each card went. "Where do birds go? 

They belong in the sky!"

Matching upper and lower case

She's been able to match upper and lower case letters

for a long time, so the way I set this up probably wasn't

interesting. I was planning on doing more with phonics 

after she'd matched them and tracing the letters, but

she never picked it.

ASL alphabet puzzle

She had fun with this one. She couldn't always tell

what the pictured hand shape was doing, so on some

of them I made the hand shape and then she would

announce the letter and find the spot.

Dice math

We roll the dice, then add beads to the little heart tray

for the number of dots on each die, then she counts

all the beads to find the total. She liked it okay, but 

only did it a few times.

Kumon activities

These are always her favorites. The cutting project
was making a cage to fold up over a butterfly. After
folding up the sides, she looked down at the butterfly
and said "I think this is distressing to him." So cute!

We took a trip to the children's museum

We also had Parent Day at her Dance/Tumble class