Wheel School - Q is for Quad

The next visual lesson plan for Wheel School - Q is for Quad - is now available for download. Only nine more letters to complete - yay! I chose the theme of forest/bugs for my Quad week (it was way hard to find activities for quads/atv's).

Alphabet and Counting Poke Cards are the free printable for the Quad week. I included a link for visual directions for poke cards. 

Download Q is for Quad HERE.

I hope you are encouraged with these plans and printables for the letter Q. If you download, it would be nice to hear from you. Thanks.

Heart Day

I know that Valentine's Day is over and I had planned to post this earlier. But life got in the way and I just had to wait. I still would like to share some of the activities that we did accomplish on Heart Day - just for fun.

J worked on estimating the amount of candies that could fit inside the heart shape. She estimated about 20 candy hearts. Using the candy she received for Heart Day, she filled the entire image of the heart.

She then separated the candies into piles of ten and discovered that it was 86 candies that fit into the heart.

She worked on a super cute cupcake mini book about some of her "loves."

Lastly, J worked really hard on creating Valentine cards for her family. She spent the rest of the day, cutting, gluing, and writing. I was impressed. Not a ton of Heart Day activities but fun none-the-less. Hope you had an awesome day.

Tot Tuesday

Ever since my son picked up his lovey (about two years ago) - Mousey from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie..., I have been in search of an extra mouse. Every thrift store, every Goodwill, I have searched for another mouse to take place in case of (gasp) Mousey getting lost or damaged beyond repair. It has taken me two years to finally find one. I had plans of keeping the new mouse until I needed him but it didn't end up that way.

My family didn't think that Kaleb could be fooled by the new mouse. So I hid the old mouse and brought out the new one. I explained to him that I fixed Mousey and he was all better.

Kaleb shook his head - that wasn't his Mousey. I assured him it was and then he took it from me. He sniffed it, rubbed his tail, and promptly handed him back saying it wasn't Mousey. Gee, how could he tell?

Kaleb was so serious that his Mousey was gone, I had to return his original Mousey. I then proceeded to put away the new Mousey for a rainy day but he had other plans. He wanted both of them - old Mousey and new Mousey. The last thing I wanted was another addition to his sleeping animals (currently, he sleeps with old Mousey, new Mousey, Dog Go Go, and Lightning McQueen pillow). But I couldn't take him back - new Mousey was Kaleb's now.

I thought for sure that Kaleb would soon tire of new Mousey but that hasn't been the case. He loves them both and carries them every where he goes. He treats new Mousey with the same brutal love as he does old Mousey (throwing him, squeezing him, dropping him to the floor etc...). The other day I found this - Kaleb had taken my scarf and bundled up his Mouseys. I believe he loves them both....and maybe, just maybe, both Mouseys can be friends.

Sorry...

It has been a hectic few weeks here. We have had a ton of snow, sickness, as well as a hospital stay of my father. Our travel plans were postponed and I am just thankful that we were here to help my family through the caregiving. My father is doing better and I am finally ready to take up the blog once more. In my absence, I have been working on some printables and hope to post soon. It is good to be back. Thanks for hanging in there.

Tot Tuesday

While we were learning about penguins and polar lands, I invested some money into a penguin animal toob as well as the polar land figure toob. J loves these little animals and I have found that Kaleb does too. With a little snow play dough, Kaleb was set to play and play he did. This little polar land bin kept him busy for some time. No tech toys here - just animal figures and play dough.

Endless open play, this is what they need. No fighting - they each had their own bin with the same amount of play dough. I love times like this :)

Winter Promise Week 19

It has been quite a week. We received another snow storm at the beginning of the week which changed our whole school plan. J asked for another snow day - well, I can't blame her as the public school kids had plenty of snow days this week. So, we had to work extra hard to get all of our school work done in a short amount of time. I have been struggling with a head cold/infection which doesn't help when you are trying to finish ahead of schedule. But, through all of it, we did manage to get our school work done and enjoy the snow for the second week straight.

J is using her counters to complete 4 step addition and subtraction problems.

She also used her counters to practice counting by 7's.

J read her story, I Can Read from a reading textbook all week. She practiced reading to increase her fluency. I am so proud of her - she is reading so well.

J is working on her Explode the Code Book. She is currently practicing blends which fits in nicely with her reading lessons.

Because of the weather, we had to  move our schooling from the front (enclosed) porch to the bedroom. It was super cold out this week and we decided it would be better to be warm while schooling.

We talked about our voices while reading and I had J read the book Yo!Yes? by Chris Raschka. It is a story about two kids who become friends and it is told in very few words. I remember reading this book to my two older kids. J loved it and she practiced reading it all week.

A bit of sadness this week - my sister's beloved dog, Bear, died. He was a true companion and protector of my sister. He will be missed by all.

We are through the half way mark - only 19 more weeks to go. Next week, we will be traveling yet again but we will manage to finish school before we go. On the road again.....see you soon.

Tot Tuesday

Anyone who knows me knows that one of my loves is children's books. I love children's books and will spend my last dollar on a book without a second thought. I treasure the stories that I shared with my olders and look forward to sharing the same stories (and more) with my youngers. I teach my kids to respect the written word which can be difficult when you have a tot who happens to be ALL boy. Occasionally, he gets carried away with the books he is looking at and rips a page (oh, no!). But books are meant to be enjoyed and with a little tape, they can be fixed. I am (somewhat) okay with a rip as long as it is not utter destruction of a book on purpose. I recently caught my tot enjoying his books - love it!

He was excited every time he took down a book to check out. He pulled a few out and then sat down to read them all. Sure, I had a mess to put back. But I absolutely love to see my tot "read" his books. It does my heart good. May your week be full of great reads!