Wheel School - W is for Wagon with free printable

It is Friday again and I am checking off the items that have been on my To-Do list. Today's finished project is Wheel School's Visual Plans for W is for Wagon. This one was somewhat difficult as the wagon items and activities that I found were for the western theme and covered wagon. I thought about doing the western theme but I really liked the little red wagon idea. So, here goes....W is for Wagon.

Download W is for Wagon Visual Plans HERE.

Links

Tippy Toes Learning - has a free printable emergent reader that includes a wagon.

Our Own Corner - has a simple tissue paper craft idea.

Parents - has a free printable coloring sheet.

School Time Snippets - has a cute wagon math mat and a W cut and paste activity.

Artists Helping Children - make a cardboard box wagon, cute and easy.

Crystal and Comp - has a cute and simple watermelon wagon craft idea with printable.

YouTube - a video on how to draw a monkey in a wagon. (I did not preview it, you should)

Farmer Boy

We are in our final book of our Little House School Year - Farmer Boy. J and I have worked through all of the Little House books and The Prairie Primer. It has been a great year. We have both learned a tremendous amount. And this week, we have something exciting happening at our house.

This is the beginning of something fun :) From the start of our Prairie Primer and The Little House series, I had this crazy idea of building a little house playhouse as a final project. I thought it would be a great learning project for the kids to help build their own playhouse -oh, what they would learn with a hands-on project like that!

We truly didn't think that this project was going to be possible because of some snags with the city. But, with grit and determination (I just about gave up), my husband took hold of my vision and made it happen. Isn't he great?

It is coming along :) We can't wait for it to be finished because we are hoping to have an End-of-the-Year Little House Tea Party with some of J's friends. We have been planning this all year and J is super excited. See you soon. 

Tot Tuesday

My Riley is always in the middle of whatever we are doing. He is usually parked on my lap while I am trying to work with Kaleb. But lately, he has decided that my lap was not good enough and he has taken up residence on a chair that he moves right next to me. (practically on my lap:)

"I sit by you, Mommy!" he says while dragging his chair around Kaleb's chair and planting it right next to my chair.

After a few minutes, though, he comes back to sitting on my lap:) I will take it either way!

Letter M Interactive Notebook Pages

I am crossing unfinished projects off my To-Do list. Today, the unfinished project that is now finished.....Letter M Interactive Notebook Pages. Yay! I am working on finishing these Interactive Notebook Pages and I hope to have them done by the end of the school year. Keep coming back every Friday and you will see a new finished project. I am hoping to finish my Wheel School visual plans as well as my Interactive Notebook pages for the alphabet.

The Interactive Pages start with some flip books that your child will glue pictures of items that begin with the letter M under the flaps.

There is a simple letter puzzle. I would print this on card stock and add some magnets for easier use. The magnets allow the puzzle to stay in place instead of moving around and frustrating the child.

I included an upper and lower case muffin sort. Your child will place these muffins on the correct plates (not pictured). You could add pockets behind the pates to store the pieces.

This is a fine motor activity - have your child hang the mittens up on a mini clothesline with clothespins. Match the upper and lowercase letter mittens.

The Math activity is a ten frame on a muffin. Child could practice number recognition by placing blue pom poms in the ten frame to match the number candle on the top of the muffin.

I created another alphabet review page. Just use white pom poms or glass bottom beads and call out a letter. Have your child cover the correct letter with the pom poms. If you have any questions for this download, let me know. Have an awesome weekend.

Download Letter M Interactive Notebook Pages HERE.

Nature Journaling

I had the privilege of camping this past weekend with a few of my friends. We camped at a neat little cabin near the beach on a small remote island. I can tell you that it was super hot and sweaty but, being by the beach, I was able to find some really cool shells. My friends are also super creative and I came home inspired:) Inspired by a book called Natural Journal by Kristen Rogers, and armed with a cute handmade journal, I encouraged J to draw the shells that I brought home.

J truly loved this activity - it was Science and Art all rolled up into one. We spent the morning, quietly observing the shells and sketching what we saw. It was a nice ending to my camping trip, an impromptu session for learning about shells. Have an awesome day.

These Happy Golden Years - free notebook pages

J and I have been working through The Prairie Primer this year and we have definitely enjoyed reading all of the Little House books. I had never personally read through all of them but it has been nice to read about Laura's life after the Big Woods. While working through each book, J has been completing notebook pages for each reading. I noticed that I forgot to post the notebook pages for These Happy Golden Years.

As we come closer to the end of the series, the activities and ideas in The Prairie Primer have been fewer and fewer. Since we are all most done, I decided to make it easier on myself and just create the notebook pages minus the mini books. For the mini books, I used the lap book printables that I found on Homeschool Share for the actual book. After each reading, J would write a summary of what was learned and then work on the mini books from the lap book. Then, she would glue them onto the backs of the summary pages. This tended to be easier and she was still able to add to her ever-expanding Little House notebook. Enjoy!

Download These Happy Golden Years Notebook Pages HERE.

Links

Homeschool Share - These Happy Golden Years lap book, free download.

Tot Tuesday

Someone has been hitting my school closet....you know the one with all of the manipulative that are off limits unless it is school time. My tot believes that is his play closet. While I am engaged somewhere else, he will open it and go to town. Today, he found the music instruments to discover.

I love that smile:) Busy, busy, busy...