I have a bit of an obsession right now with homeschooling and planning for homeschooling so I can’t resist sharing a few more things that Nevaeh and I have done this week.
Nevaeh has been working on the letter A this week and I came across an idea of making an alligator and feeding the alligator A words. Well when we got our printer last week I came across some hard cardboard tubes,used as packing material, harder and smaller then paper towel rolls and I saved them thinking they would come in handy for something. So the other day during art class I got two of the tubes I asked Nevaeh to make a “telescope” so we can look out the window and check the weather in the mornings and I asked Sanura to make me an alligator with her tube. She was up to the challenge, here is what she came up with:
I told Nevaeh that it was Ally the Alligator and that she would only eat A words. So I had Nevaeh name off some A words and we wrote them on little strips of paper and fed them to Ally the Alligator. She really had fun with this little activity.
Another big hit from this week was a little activity that I also printed from Lesson Pix that I shared about yesterday. I printed off a sheet of apples, we went with just the outline of the apples so that she could color them in herself. We’ve been counting the apples and making patterns with the apples. The other activity that we did was with a tree that we also printed out:
I had Nevaeh count out 5 of the apples that she had colored red and she put them on the tree and we sang this little song:
5 red apples hanging on a tree,
the juiciest apples you ever did see!
The wind came by and game an angry frown,
and one little apple came tumbling down.
4 red apples….
And one by one she takes the apples off the tree. She is really grasping subtraction from doing this and she loves it. After we did the red apples she wanted to do the green and then the yellow. I’d say it’s probably her favorite thing that we’ve done so far.
Homeschooling is just fun, we’re loving it so far. I am glad for the weekend though, it’s a pretty intense change.
