Animals

This is a long vowel, short vowel file folder game that I downloaded from another site. I can't remember which one but it's one of the ones in my side bar. This is a little above her head but just what Moo needed and she enjoyed playing.

Mom & baby animal match game from same site as above.

These are some animal counting cards that I created. She counts the animals and circles the correct number at the bottom of the card. I laminated the cards so she can use a dry erase marker and they can be reused.

This file folder game was downloaded from the same site as the first two. She puts the animals in the correct column; farm animal, zoo animal, or sea animal. As you can see Moo can't wait to help.

T - Week, Number 14

This week Kitten reviewed the letter T. We ate Twinkies, watched Tinkerbell, counted tulips, and enjoyed the beautiful weather.

Finding the hidden T words

This one: I printed off the letters of the alphabet from worksheet.com (you can make this easily at home) and as I called out words she would place a magnet on the beginning letter of that word. She loved it!

Kitten putting her tulips in numerical order.


Moo-Man was having attitude problems this week so we'll be working on that in the weeks to come. He was born grumpy so it's an ongoing process. Hopefully, I'll be posting more about him (good things) in the upcoming weeks. He did his regular Horizon's Math, copywork (writing), and phonics reader, but also a maze, hidden pictures, scissors practice, beginning art practice from www.donnayoung.org, etc. I get disappointed that my children aren't always as enthusiastic about learning as I would like them to be but I hope that will change for the upcoming school year.

Please pray for us as we continue this journey.

Letters Q & R

Last weekend (Friday & Saturday) were my teacher work days. I had planned to post but ran out of time. I was able to get quite a bit accomplished and I believe that I'll be able to purchase the necessary curriculum for well under my budget and that's a huge blessing because even though the budget is reduced this year it was still stretched. As the saying goes "A dollar saved is a dollar earned" and that's about the only way for me to earn any money is by saving it. I watched my Charlotte Mason Seminar and was rejuvenated in my desire to apply a lot of Charlotte's ideas. As usual, I'm excited about the upcoming year and now am back on track for finishing this year well.
My parents are here visiting this week so I didn't get any pictures of our R activities but I got most of my ideas and resources from ConfessionsofaHomeschooler.blogspot.com. We made rainbow crayons, hopped like rabbits, ran, rolled, and just had lots of fun.

Here is Kitten with her pattern blocks forming a quetzel.


She is coloring by number her quilt. (ConfessionsofaHomeschooler.blogspot.com)


For Qq last week I created a counting/number match game for Kitten. I had some crown cut-outs from The Dollar Tree (we called them Queen's crowns), I wrote the numbers 1 - 25 on the crowns and gave her some shiny pompoms to place on them. She counted out the "jewels" to match the number on the crown.


Moo-Man practicing his math with this place value game from filefolderfun.com


Hopefully I'll get back on track for next week, although we do have lots of appointments next week. Oh well, it's all in God's Hands!