Marvelous Monday

LHTH-UNIT 5

Letter-Ee

Number-6

Bible-Joseph becomes a leader.

Practicing tracing sandpaper letters for the letters we have learned so far.

I somehow skipped the Wikki Stix when we learned the letter Dd, but I remembered today when we introduced Ee.  He loves the Wikki Stix and will do them proper for a few minutes then he piles more and more on until he grows tired of it and he will help pick them all up and place them back in our ziploc bag.

Here is our finished number 6 worksheet.  We glued 6 pictures of pillows onto our paper.

Marvelous Monday (a bit late)

I am a bit behind on my blog updates this week.  We are steadily working through LHTH now that we have gotten the hang of it.

I love the neat little things we do in LHTH.  Here Wiggles is being Abraham serving his 3 guests.  We used Big Sis’s real tea set (shh! it is a secret).  I actually had a hard time getting him away from this activity.

Reading in A Child’s First Bible is going so well.  I am surprised at how much he understands for his age.  He isn’t the world’s best talker so I was nervous about even starting a program this year.  It turns out that it was the best thing we have done.  He has really blossomed the past few months in the speech and language area.

Here is our Count on Me and Hide and Seek C pages.  I know the picture is horribly tiny.  My camera batteries are dead so the past few posts have been with my phone camera.

I think this was Unit 3 Day 3.

Marvelous Monday

Okay, I am trying to get back on track with our Little Hands to Heaven work and Abeka work.  We finally finished Unit 2 of LHTH!!  Woo Hoo! 

Here he is playing with the Melissa and Doug animal sounds puzzle.  This is the first time he has really taken the time to match them up and listen for the sound.

We learned about the tower of Babel today.  Our math activity in LHTH was to stack blocks one by one (counting as we went) until they toppled to show how God was unhappy with the people and destroyed their tower.  Not really sure if we got all of that, but we did enjoy stacking blocks.

I tried to do some patterns with the colored blocks but he just wanted to stack and topple so I let it go for now.

We read in a Children’s First Bible for LHTH and it did a nice little overview of the tower of Babel.

 

We also did our sandpaper letters B and our finger play for B.  Then we headed outside to draw B in sidewalk chalk.  I drew the B and then Wiggles “tried” to trace over it.  Since he is just 2, I am not stressing it.

Not to leave the girls out of the blogging, here are some pictures of them on field day…

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While I was figuring out what we were going to do today. Aaron played with his paper trains.
We did our Kumon First Steps Let's Cut Paper!
Kumon First Steps Let's Color!
This is my other Prang watercolor set. These are for 2+years and are great b/c the watercolors are large and easy for small hands and they don't get all mixed up like Crayola's with the small watercolors.
We did our Abeka Aa page and watercolor painted with a q-tip. I personally love this much more than the paint brush for a toddler. I would recommend it over a brush any day.Our finished masterpieceFor our Bb page we had to glue white rice to the Bb. I did not like this. It was messy and Wiggle Worm wanted to put the rice anywhere but on the glue. The rice was too small for this activity. I like beans much better or cotton balls...anything but small, white rice.
Our finished Bb with rice. This was more me than him doing it and as said before there will be no more rice even if the instructions call for it.
We didn't do LHTH b/c I needed masking tape and construction paper. I had neither. So I decided to do our Abeka pages and our Kumon First Steps workbooks. I also have the Abeka fingerplay and poems book and we did a fun fingerplay. It has poems and fingerplays for every letter of the alphabet. It would work as a stand alone as you teach your child the letters or with almost any program.
I will pick up the needed items for LHTH tomorrow and we will pick up where we left off then.
We also read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. I am putting the tot book together for it now and plan to give it to him Friday after reading all week. He will get to work with the tot book all next week.
I am planning to do this with several other books and tot books. I am going to read the book for a week (while I am making the tot book), then he will have the tot book for a week. I am focusing on the literature based ones. I picked up The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Five Little Monkeys, and Brown Bear Brown Bear today.
Does anyone know how to make the pockets for the tot books? I have some extras for our tot books that I want to make pockets for but don't know how to make the pockets. If anyone has a template for a pocket for PSP, I would greatly appreciate it.

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Here is Wiggle Worm with his Dr. Seuss Alphabet cards. I let him just explore with these while I was getting ready for Tot School. If he sees me pull out the wikki stix, sandpaper letters, Child's First Bible, LHTH teacher's guide, and whatever else we will use that day...he drives me nuts and I am flustered and we are scatterbrained while trying to do the activities...so today I gave him something to occupy him while I got myself together. Also it is fun to see what they do without direction.We did our sandpaper letters first. We reviewed A and introduced B. We did trace these but I have no pictures of that b/c he spotted the wikki stix before I could snap a shot and he was quickly done with the sandpaper letters. In an earlier post, there is a guide to using sandpaper letters as well as the site of where I got my wonderful wood backed sandpaper letters. These are meant to last. No cardboard paper here. I will make a label as soon as I am done with this post and link all the sandpaper letter posts if anyone is interested. You can also make your own and I will link lots of free printouts and instructions to that soon also.
Once again, I decided less direction on the letter we had already introduced. He did Aa all by himself. B was guided b/c we hadn't had it before. I let him just do what he wants with the pictures. By the time we were through, the ant had about 30 legs and the butterfly was a wad of pink wikki stix.
If you haven't gotten wikki stix, they are great for fine motor skills and learning the formation of the letters. I don't separate ours, he has to pull each one apart from the stack. This is really great for the pincer grip. The cards that we use are the Wikki Stix Alphabet Fun Cards for Learning. I got mine at Therapro.com and they are well worth the money. They are only $13.95 and if you order $35 in an internet order you get free shipping. This is a great site. You can click on the Wikki Stix picture below and it will take you to their site.
We also introduced the number 2 in LHTH today. We were supposed to find in a magazine or print out 2 hands to cut out and glue. Wiggle Worm was not wanting to leave the wikki stix and he isn't that great at cutting and gluing yet...so instead I traced his hands in 2 different color crayons and wrote 1 and 2 in them. This was much better and engaging for us b/c he got frustrated last week with the cutting and gluing. He really got into it being his hands and we counted the hands on the page and his real hands several times.
We will be going back through LHTH as a 3 year old next year and I think we will do more cutting and pasting then. To save stress and frustration on his part and mine. I will cut out or adapt the lessons for his level of ability for now. We will be practicing our cutting and pasting with our Kumon First Steps workbooks. They seem more on the level of a 2 year old boy.

Marvelous Monday

Here is our LHTH worksheets for Monday. It really is a fun program. I was nervous that this program would be too much for him but it is just right.

We also used our new ice bucket and scoop for some pouring practice.

We got bored pouring and decided this was more fun.

Hope everyone else had a marvelous Monday!