Farm Unit - Horses

Kaleb is working on Journeys of Imagination for his kindergarten year. The unit we are currently learning about is the farm. This week, he learned about horses.

Kaleb is doing great working on his phonics and handwriting.

After we read about horses, he painted a some for his mural. He decided his horses should be blue and purple.

He added yellow fingerprints to his mural for chicks. The hen and the rooster just had to have chicks, right?

He is hamming up for the camera - he is reading a seek and find farm animal book.

He added the horses to his mural.

And he finished the yellow fingerprint chicks. They turned out super cute.

Here is his farm mural as it stands. We add to it every week - next week we learn about cows. The mural is definitely shaping up! See you soon.

Links

Learn Create Love - has the free printable horses to add to your farm mural.

Nursery Rhyme - Little Miss Muffet

Kaleb is working through the Literature Pockets - Nursery Rhymes as part of his kindergarten curriculum. This week's rhyme was Little Miss Muffet.

The rhymes lends to some Science exploration of spiders, of course! We read a ton of books on spiders and labeled the parts of a spider. This printable came from First Grade Garden (link below).

We discussed what a spider eats and how it eats it - who can say buggy milkshake? Kaleb compared what he eats to what a spider eats. He used this chart with printable pictures from First Grade Garden (link below).

He made a cute spider that we hung on the window.

He learned about the life cycle of a spider and created a simple chart for his literature pocket.

Then, Kaleb called Grandma and Grandpa, as well as asked who was afraid of spiders? He then graphed the results using the printable from First Grade Garden (link below).

He made cute spiders using paint and a tp roll. This idea came from Crafty Morning (link below). Kaleb enjoyed learning about spiders this week while learning Little Miss Muffet. I thought that he would not like learning about spiders but he truly loved it. Have a great day.


Links

Go Science Girls - has the curds and whey experiment.

Crafty Morning - has a cute spider craft idea using a tp roll.

First Grade Garden - has a few free printables for spiders.

Layers of Learning - has some ideas for spider learning including a short video to watch.

123 Homeschool 4 Me - has some good ideas for a spider unit.

Tot Tuesday

Starting school has posed a challenge for me this year. My little guy always wants to be in the middle of things. I recently gave him some crayons and paper to try to entertain him....it lasted all but three minutes. But, at least it was something:)

He's so intent on his picture!

American Artists - Charles Demuth

We are currently working through our second year of Great American Artists for Kids for our American study. Our artist of the week was Charles Demuth.

We read about the artist and looked at his artwork on the internet. J wrote a notebook page for her art book as well as a notecard for her art timeline.

She decided that she wanted to paint the number nine since it was her age.

She painted her nine silver and added a ton of hearts to her painting.

Her Charles Demuth project - super cute, a study of nine:) See you soon.


Links

Create Art with Me - has an idea for Demuth using a computer.

Art Projects for Kids - has a simple crayon project for kids.

Shine Brite Zamorano - another project using numbers for kids.

Do Art! - has another idea for a Demuth art project

Little House in the Woods - Week 1

We are currently reading Little House in the Big Woods and working our way through the Prairie Primer. In addition to the Primer, I bought the notebook pages for the first three books so I wouldn't have to create them myself. I love being able to print off pages for J to work on to put in her notebook. It is so easy. I am not sure what I will do when we are done the third book! Our first week of the Prairie went well.

Recently, at a thrift store, I found a beautiful read-aloud version of Little House in the Big Woods. It has all of the same charm of the chapter book but with bigger pictures. J and I read a chapter everyday and then she works on her notebook pages.

Each day starts with a page for her to write what she learned. She always dictates this to me which I, in turn, write it on the white board. She then copies it onto her page.

She looked up a Bible verse on the protection of our Father and added it to her page.

She created this pop-up version of the house in the woods - a free printable I found (link below).

After reading how Pa cleaned his gun, we learned about gun safety. J made a poster for her notebook about what to do if she found a gun.

One highlight of the week, J and Kaleb made butter. She did not believe me that the whipping cream was going to turn into butter but after a long....I do mean a long time, it finally worked its way into butter. Kaleb gave up pretty soon after the shaking started but I made J stick it out:)

Here she is trying her butter - not too bad. In fact, we made so much that she used it on her morning toast all week! Riley liked it too. It was a good week in the prairie. We are definitely enjoying our reading.

Links

Play dough to Plato - has a simple recipe for making butter in a jar.

Practical Pages - has the free printable 3D model of the Little House.

Lapbook Lessons - has a free printable Woods lap book.

Farm Week 3

Kaleb is working through Journeys of Imagination for his kindergarten year. The first unit is learning about the farm. This week, he was learning about how a farm gives us food.

Our bible story for the week was Tower of Babel. I found this free printable game from Crafting the Word of God (link below) that we played each day that we read the story. As you progress through the game, you add blocks to make towers then we measured ours to see which one was larger.

Kaleb worked on writing his T's. He makes the letter with his wooden pieces, writes it on his chalkboard, and then works in his writing book.

Kaleb worked on this sheet - where does our food come from? He found out that it comes from the farm.

Kaleb painted a chicken to add to his farm mural from Learn Create Love (link below).

He worked on the cover of his farm riddle book. This came from the Mailbox unit book - Farm.

We made several pages for his farm riddle book. We wrote riddles and added the answers to the riddles behind the pages. "I have four legs. I am pink and I say oink, oink."

Kaleb began adding with his Math U See program. He has been using those blocks for a couple of weeks and he already knows which ones are which without having to count them!

He learned about the life cycle of a chicken and created this super cute craft from Kindergarten Rocks (link below).

He is pretty proud of this creation.

He completed the Chickens can, have, and are worksheet. We learned a lot about chickens this week - see his surprise:) (and Riley in the background smiling). Pretty good week on the farm. See you soon.


Links

Learn Create Love - has the free printable chicken craft that we added to the mural.

Crafting the Word of God - free printable Tower of Babel game.

Kindergarten Rocks - has the free life cycle of a chicken craft in her TPT store.

Curriculum Castle - has a free life cycle of a chicken interactive wheel that we also worked on.

Bonker Bots - has the free printable about what farm animals give us.

Nursery Rhyme - A Little Bird

As a part of Kaleb's Kindergarten curriculum, we are working through Literature Pockets - Nursery Rhymes. Our first rhyme was A Little Bird.

We read the rhyme and worked through a little writing exercise - he made up his own rhyme A Little Mouse. He drew the mouse all by himself.

With this rhyme, we also read Feathers for Lunch. It seemed only fitting. Kaleb compared the differences between cat and bird using a T-chart.

With some pipe cleaner worms and a ten frame, Kaleb worked some on math problems as well as some fine motor skills.

We worked on counting by 5's. I hid a small bird underneath one of the numbers. Kaleb had to repeat the number to look under the card for the little bird. This is helping with his number recognition skills.

We read the rhyme each day as he memorized it. He colored the rhyme sheet for his notebook. All items that he creates will be added to the rhyme pocket in his notebook.

He made a little bird puppet which he used for reciting the rhyme. He loves those big eyes!

We discussed different animals that lay eggs and those who don't. He glued each picture under the correct heading.

An easy project for A Little Bird was to place a printout of a bird on top of the paper. Kaleb painted over it and then I removed the bird. Easy and it turned out cute. We had fun this week learning about birds, egg laying animals, and cats. Not too shabby of a week - and I was worried that we wouldn't get some Science in:) Have a great day.


Links

The Learning Tree - has a great color wheel activity for kindergartners. We didn't get to this but I may still do it.

Deceptively Educational - has a fine motor activity to go along with this rhyme.

One Time Through - has a great STEM activity - build your own bird nest.

Homeschool Share - has a free printable lap book for Feathers for Lunch. Some of the items we used were from this printable.




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