Sonlight Week 8

Sonlight Week 8 was cut a little short by the holiday but we managed to finish everything in the time we had. We learned about the importance of lighthouses while reading The Light at Tern Rock, we read about ancient China and learned about cave formation. Here are some of the activities we completed this week.

J learned about Joseph's life and different ways we can be kind to people.

We are still working on number recognition and counting to 100. Every day, she uses her 100's chart to count to 100 by 1's, 5's, and 10's. We played a matching game with the numbers to 30. She had to say the number when she flipped the cards.

Our mystery letter was H so here, J is making an H page. She found different pictures for H in a magazine for her letter page.

I found a cute H maze from Education.com, she had to help the hippo to the water. This included both upper and lower case letters for recognition. I always try to find different activities to go along with our letter review so she doesn't get bored.

J learning to draw a hippo.

Our sight word work for this week included stamping, writing, and...

working with magnetic letters.

I made mystery word family pouches - a mini pouch with magnetic letters for each word family that we are practicing. She had to create the words and read them. She has asked me to do this again, so we will work through all of our word families.

We had a really nice day during the week and I thought it would be fun to work on school stuff on our balcony. I laid a blanket down and brought out some work while Kaleb played in the sand.

J has a fascination with the magnifying glass lately so I decided to make a worksheet where she could use it. I typed her sight words really small and she had to use her magnifying glass to "see" and write them.

One last thing, recently we were able to actually watch the Disney channel on my iPad, thanks to my Mom and Dad. J and Kaleb have been able to watch Doc McStuffins and Handy Manny. It has been really nice. Here they are on the first night we tried it out, glued to the screen. Thanks Mom and Dad for doing this for us! We don't watch it every day but it is nice to have it. Also, it is without commercials - that's the way to watch t.v.

So, our week has come to an end. We are gearing up for week 9. I am hoping to work with the tot more, I will be trying to adjust our schedule some. But for now, have a great week.