Nursery Rhyme - 1,2,3,4,5 Fish Alive

Kaleb and I are working through Nursery Rhymes as part of his kindergarten curriculum. We are using Literature Pockets as our main book as well as most of the activities that are presented in it. This week's rhyme was Fish Alive.

Kaleb started his week of the rhyme by creating his own - he caught a dog alive. He filled in the word dog and even drew one all by himself.

I printed some fish and labeled them with numbers and the letters of his name. He colored them and cut them out to make a fishing game.

Give the fish a paperclip and tape a magnet to a wooden dowel and you have a simple game that we played all week. When he caught the fish numbers, he put them in order from smallest to largest. When he caught the letters of his name, he placed them in order as well.

He created a cute fish bowl craft complete with fish.

He made a pop-up card for his rhyme.

He also did some fishy math subtraction. This free printable was found at Tweet Resources (link below). Next week, we are going to take a break from the rhymes and work on a Before Five in a Row book that has been on my to-do list. See you soon.


Links

Messy Little Monster - has a cute idea for paper fishing.

A Little Pinch of Perfect - has a cute paper plate fish craft.

Tweet Resources - has the free math printables for the rhyme in her TPT store.

Tot Tuesday

Riley....always in the middle of things while we are doing school. He does not want to be left out:)

On J's lap...

on my lap....

always on my lap:)

Character Training - Goodness with free printable

We are currently in our second year of the Virtue Training Bible. We are taking our time, as you can see, by trying to work on one virtue each week. This week's virtue was Goodness.

J starts her Goodness notebook pages by looking up the definition of the virtue. She writes it under her headline.

We talked about ways she could have the virtue of Goodness and this was her face when I mentioned that she could be nicer to her brother. What a face! She ended up writing it on her list though (she knew I was right.)

She colored her goodness word ring. We add it to the other virtues that we have been studying.

Then, J works through the Bible highlighting the verses, tagging them, and reading them out loud. We discuss them as well.

Here is a view of the Goodness notebook pages that I created to go-along with our virtue study. If you would like to download them, feel free. Have a great day.

Download Goodness Notebook Pages HERE.

Little House in the Big Woods - Final Week

This is our last week for the book Little House in the Big Woods and our first Prairie Primer unit for fourth grade. We had the opportunity to visit Cracker Country in Florida and we learned a ton while having some prairie fun. J wore her Little Prairie dress all day, even though it was extremely hot! Everyone loved her dress, some though she worked at Cracker Country, and others invited her to work when she turned 13! She was super excited about this trip. I am glad we made the time to go.

J started of our visit to Cracker Country by dipping candles. This was definitely something I wanted to do for our unit but never got around to buying all of the supplies.

Kaleb and J with their hand dipped candles.

J washed some clothes with the washboard and learned to iron. She couldn't believe how heavy the iron was! I couldn't believe how long it took to heat up. I am so thankful for electricity:)

J sat in on a school lesson in a 100 year old schoolhouse with a 100 year old school teacher (according to the teacher). Hands in her lap and ready to listen:)

We visited the Cracker Country printing press and received a newspaper. J and Kaleb are reading the paper.

J tried her hand at roping cattle....she tried but with no luck. Cracker Country was a great field trip. It was great for our unit on Little House as well as our Florida history unit. I love when things just work out for our school:)

The final installment in the Little House in the Big Woods was to have a Gold Rush party. I made simple horses from paper, gave the kids cowboy hats, and bandanas from the Dollar store.

We ate camp food and panned for gold. They searched for gold nuggets that we hid in our yard and we drank root beer! Fun, fun, fun. The panning for gold was somewhat harder than expected. I bought a kit from Hobby Lobby and it came with the pans and gold/sand mixture. It probably would have been easier if I made the gold/dust mixture with larger pebbles. J enjoyed the activity but Kaleb thought it was too hard. The whole family helped Kaleb fill his gold pouch. So they both ended up with "gold" to keep.

It was a good end to a good book unit. J loved the hands-on activities and I enjoyed them as well. We are on to the Little House on the Prairie. See you soon.

B4FIAR - Blueberries for Sal

This post was actually supposed to happen a few month ago. I decided to finally post it. Using Before Five in a Row, we rowed Blueberries for Sal. It is a cute book about a mom and her daughter going blueberry picking where they meet another mom and daughter group blueberry picking as well.

I made a cute bear for Kaleb to feed blueberries to using the tongs for fine motor practice. He rolled some dice and had to feed the bear the number of blueberries he rolled.

He put the numbered blueberries in order from 1 through 20.

He found the b's in the blueberry bushes and stamped them blue.

He went alphabet blueberry picking around the house. I hid a blueberry for each letter which he found around the house. He then put the letters in order.

He measured his hand print against that of an actual bear. Do you see how big that paw is?

We discussed real and fake bears and sorted the facts between the two.

He made blueberry pictures using a cork. He stamped blueberries with blue paint and made a picture.

He counted out each number using glass marble blueberries. He used this ten frame worksheet to practice counting his numbers.

He compared numbers using the glass marbles and dice.

I found some magnets at a thrift store and I placed them on the magnet board. He placed the beginning sounds under each one. We definitely had fun rowing this book and I hope to continue rowing since our situation has changed. We still have a few Before Five in a Row books left before we can move on to Five in a Row. We may just get to them this year:) Sorry for the late post but I though you would enjoy seeing it. Have a great day.

Links

National Wildlife Foundation - has the recipe for bear paw cookies.

M is for Monster - blueberry pancake counting printable.

Artsy Momma - has the painting with blueberries idea.

Annie's Adventures - has a free unit on bears to download.

123 Homeschool 4 Me - has the blueberry math printable game.

Preschool Alphabet - has the great idea of an outside alphabet game, match the blueberries to the correct letters.

Growing Book by Book - has the free printable abc berry sort that would work well with this book.

Farm Unit - Final Week

This week, we finalized our farm unit. We learned about sheep, pigs, and goats. We are done with our first Journey to Learning unit and I think we are going to take a break and try something new.

Kaleb is working on doubles in his math program. Thought it would be a great time to bring out the dominoes and write number sentences using them.

He is also learning to add. I found this super cute number line printable from Royal Baloo (link below). He uses this when he comes across a math problem that isn't a double.

He compared pigs and cows with this cute printable from Kelly Bates (link below).

He made two colorful pigs, a few fluffy sheep, and a goat for his mural.

His farm looks full of super animals. I don't think that we could add anymore if we wanted. We finished up our unit. We are going to change things up a bit. Why not? He didn't seem impressed with our farm unit, so I asked him what he wanted to learn about. You know what he said? Alligators. We are learning about alligators next.


Links

Paging Fun Moms - has a cute paper plate sheep craft.

Kelly Bates - TPT store has the From Farm to Table free printable used to compare cows and pigs.

Royal Baloo - has the free printable number line that Kaleb used for math.

Tot Tuesday

I just had to share this picture...this is how our day goes....my tot is not far behind what we are doing at all times of the day. I love his smile. Here he is sitting on J's lap while she works through math. He's up to something, I just know it!