This week brought us a freak snow storm where the public school kids received two days off from school. J, on the other hand, did not get a snow day. We worked all week amid doctor appointments, snow days, and sickness (Kaleb). We are preparing for a trip to Florida but we will be back in time for Easter. Hopefully the snowy weather will be done by then and we can have a warm Spring Break.
Because of the cold weather, we has school in the bedroom, complete with our lap desk. In Math, J learned about liquid measurement. I brought out all the items we were learning about and if it had been somewhat warmer, I would have allowed her to play with the items and water. Being in 'Merica, J was able to see what a gallon looked like - we use liters instead of gallons.
It is not often J gets to do art work during math. But I found this cute Super Gallon Man craft and figured it was a great time to make it. Super Gallon Man came from Amber Polk's TPT store.
You can find it here.
Our story of the week was The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. For her reading, we are working through grade level textbook readers that I have found at thrift stores. But since the story in the textbook doesn't have all of the great cut-outs and such, we used a soft back book of the same story.
After reading the story, J worked through a number sequencing exercise which I turned into a story sequence activity. We used the pictures to make a step book of each day and what the caterpillar ate. This gave her practice in sequencing the story as well as practice writing her days of the week. The sequence activity can be found at
Amy Buettner's TPT store.
J is sometimes still mixing up B's and D's. I was checking out pinterest and found a link for a B, D, and P online game for extra practice. The link for the game is
HERE. She played this several times and asked for more. She loves when I incorporate any kind of technology into school days.
J practiced her sight words with a memory game that I bought a while ago. The sight words were really pre primer so the game was relatively easy. But she enjoyed it and we played it twice.
Snakes were the focus animal of the week - one of J's loves. We read all about them in various books, which we have read a thousand times before, and she worked through the animal fact sheet for her animal notebook.
Lastly, we had it on our list to make pipe cleaner flowers since last week's story - Flower Garden by Eve Bunting. We didn't get a chance to make them until this week. So, I finally purchased some pipe cleaners and let J go to town.
She made a whole vase of pipe cleaner flowers. They turned out super cute and now are gracing the top on her grandmother's bookshelf. Nothing like have fresh flowers in the middle of a freak snowstorm! I hope you had a great week and I will see you on Monday with a new printable Wheel School Pack. I am just putting the finishing touches on it and hope to have it published soon. Have a great weekend.
