Tot Tuesday

My Riley as Darth Vader.

Oz Hands-On

Recently, we were able to visit the local hands-on museum to participate in The Wizard of Oz exhibit. We scored some free passes and it was a girls day - just me and J. Thought I would share a few pictures from the day.

In Kindergarten, we read The Wizard of Oz as part of Sonlight's program. It was somewhat graphic but we enjoyed most of it. J also learned that Dorothy's slippers were not red but silver. When they  made the film, silver wouldn't show up as well as red slippers.

J rode the bike with Toto in the back. Her pedal power made the cinemascope run.

She climbed her way to the Witch's broom. She liked the web climbing.

She wasn't too thrilled with the Scarecrow - see that face!

She brushed the lion's mane.

I tried to get her to milk the cow but she wasn't having it. The exhibit was great. I was worried that it was going to be too young for her but she had fun. It was a nice girls' day out.

Advent Study - God's Names

Last year, I gave J a choice of advent bible studies. I asked her if she wanted to learn about the Genealogy of Jesus, God's Names, or a simple Christmas devotional. She chose God's names.  Because of computer issues, I wasn't able to share what we did during the holiday season but I wanted to post this in case your family would like to learn about God's Names during the next advent season or any other time. It is not just for advent!

The first reading of the book talks about just how many names God has. It is amazing how many  names he has. The book suggested that J discover how many names she has - she came up with 11.

For every  name of God, we tried to come up with an ornament. Since this was the first lesson on how many names J had, she made a crystal J (borax experiment). This was easy to do with great results. It just takes a few days to dry.

Also, she colored each name for her poster and a mini ornament for the window display.

Here is her ornament for Elhohim. She made a coffee filter world and placed it in her hand.

Here is her Yahweh ornament - burning bush and her name for the poster.

The beginning of her poster. Each day, she added each name she learned. It was full by the time we finished.

Another ornament. Many times, I would ask her what she would like to make for the tree to represent the name and she would come up with some great ones. Here's a fish.

A magnifying glass ornament.

Our window display - God's names. She colored a new one each day. I love how this turned out. Our tree was also a success. I wish I would have taken a picture of it. We learned so much from this book - it definitely doesn't have to be an advent study. Have a great day.

Ten on a Sled

We have put Before Five in a Row on hold and are working on some book units for the holiday season. This week's book unit was Ten on the Sled by Kim Norman. It is a super cute book about animals that go for a sled ride and keep "falling" off. We also read the companion book - If You are Cold and You Know It by the same author.

Kaleb worked on "friends of ten" - all the addends the add up to ten. We used Christmas erasers and a sled ten frame. I placed the red candies on the ten frame and he had to find the other friend of ten. He then wrote the problem on his min whiteboard.

The Science for this book was to learn about caribou. He labeled the caribou diagram and he insisted on writing the labels himself. Yay!

I found some animals that matched the characters of the book and a sled from a Playmobil set. Kaleb set the animals in the sled and as I read the story, he pulled each animal from the sled.

This is the carnage of animals that were removed from the sled. I loved watching Kaleb "explode" the animals from the sled.

Another day of exploding animals - looks pretty gruesome, doesn't it? He had fun though:)

I found some pattern cards for snowflakes. I gave him the shapes and he recreated the picture.

We worked on "ed" and "en" words with word tiles. After he was done practicing with the word tiles, he stamped the words with alphabet stamps.

Kaleb worked on filling out a learning chart on caribous which he wrote himself. We read all about caribous and wrote down some facts. We definitely had fun with this book. Hope you have an awesome day.

Links

Real Life at Home - has a cute idea for a walrus craft.

Creativity Takes Flight - has the walrus craft instructions.

Reading Confetti - has a cute idea using plastic eggs.

Snippets by Sarah - has a cute craft using your student's picture, free download.

The Recovering Traditionalist - has free printable ten frames.

Tidbits Cami - has a popsicle sled craft.

Tales of a Teacherista - has a few ideas for learning about caribou.

Learn Create Love - has a free printable caribou template.

I Heart Crafty Things - has a cute reindeer sponge painting activity.

Y & Z Alphabet Review Pack - free printable

I am so sorry! I can't believe that I missed posting this. I am not sure what happened but I found this missing review pack on my hard drive. I must have thought that I already posted it but I didn't. I apologize. But good news - I found it and it is your now:)

There are puzzles, sight word printables, number puzzles, flash cards, etc... The final installment of my alphabet review packs. Enjoy.

Download Y & Z Alphabet Review Pack HERE.

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Riley recently re-found an old toy. I just his faces:)

Character Training - Holiness

A part of J's Bible program is character training and our resource is the Virtue Training Bible. J's new virtue this week was holiness.

Each week, she adds to her virtue notebook. Here, she is cutting out the pieces of the notebook pages that I have created.

She colored the word ring and added it to her ring. She likes to color the words. We read through the key verses on holiness.

J looks up the verses and highlights them throughout the bible, adding a color tag to each verse.

This is a photo of her notebook and the tabs. She is definitely filling it up. Once we place a tab at the bottom, we start all over at the top.

A photo of her completed notebook pages. If you would like to download the Virtue notebook pages for holiness, click the link below. Enjoy your day.

Download Holiness Notebook Pages HERE.