Week in Review 1-11-10 to 1-15-10

This week went well. We tried to do a little more Little Hands to Heaven. This is our 2nd go round trying it. We stopped at the letter F last year. It just became too repetitive and Wiggles totally quit wanting to mess with it.

Well, we are only on week 2 of trying again with the older options. He doesn’t seem to be liking it anymore this go around, but I will keep trying for a few more weeks. I am adding in HOP Pre-reading and Singapore Earlybird Kindergarten 1a/1b this year.

So, here is our week…

LHTH Count on Me page with 5 caterpillars drawn.

First thing in the morning with bed head.

Playing with our Play-Doh Numbers, Letters ‘n Fun

You can stamp all the letters into the playdough. I got ours at Big Lots for $5. It has kept Wiggles occupied and learning for hours this week. It has the small containers of play-doh so it doesn’t get too messy.

Working on HOP Pre-Reading and our letter A.

A all done.

Yeah! We get to put a sticker on the poster!

Wiggle Worm’s School is Back in Session

Well, we are using Little Hands to Heaven again after a long break and after completing our Abeka Nursery books.  We are using the older options with it this time around.

Wiggles is actually participating in the rhymes and such and I think we will both like it better.

We only did 2 days this week though.

 

Riding Thomas the Train around our A.  He was supposed to stamp a stuffed animal around it, but he loves Thomas so Thomas it is.

He drew on the paper in white crayon and was painting over it to make it show.

He also loves to stack and rearrange the pantry while I school the bigger kids.

Merry Christmas

 

My very own train table!

Wiggles just can’t believe it!

Of course, there was some non-Thomas items.

Happy Birthday to Me!

 

Of course, Wiggles cake was Thomas the Train

Make a Wish!

That cake sure was good!

  

Yeah! Presents!

Fall Fun

We went to a pumpkin patch/corn maze that had a lot of fun things to do at it.

Wiggles pumping water to race ducks.

 

Big Sis pushing Wiggles on his “horse”

 

Big Sis and Wiggles on the cow train

Wiggles painting his Abeka Gg page.

 

Yeah!  Wiggles cutting proper.  I got new scissors from Montessori outlet that are perfect to learn to cut with at this age.  They have a spring and a break.  Just look at my southpaw!

Montessori Outlet Scissors link!

Throw Away Thursdays

Wiggles learning to cut.  We are working on just using 1 hand, but he has a hard time with it.

 

Doing color wonder with Buzz Lightyear.  We love
Toy Story here.

Long time no blog

Lots going on in the time since I last blogged.  

Bubba and Wiggles with cuissenaire rods and other fun manipulatives.

Wiggles with this great shapes and colors manipulative that I got at Walmart years ago for Bubba.

Take a close look, a week later Wiggles folded the cardboard shapes and puzzles and shoved them down the air vents.  They are forever gone and can no longer be purchased. :cry:

Lots of learning is going on and I plan to update the blog a lot more regularly now.

Life School

Here are some pictures from the last 2 weeks of our life.  Wiggles has been very busy.

  

Wiggles loves to put on his Big Sis’ skates (pay no attention to my laundry in the picture LOL)…he also loves his Thomas train sets….

We went to the lake and you can see how much Wiggles loved it…

 

We have been going to the ball field for the big kid’s baseball games and Wiggles plays on the playground.  Here are a couple of pictures…

Busy Summer and found a Co-op for next year!

We have been busy with summer baseball with the bigger kids and haven’t had much time for “school”.  Wiggles has been learning a lot.  I just haven’t had my camera there for “life” school.

I will try to sneak some pictures this week though as we are in tournament time for baseball and soon it will be over.

The great news is I was pointed in the direction of a local co-op and it does music, art, and drama.  I am very excited.  Big Sis is going to learn guitar.  Bubba and Tadpole will have p.e., music, language arts, and art.  Bubba’s p.e. is called Loco-Motion (it sounds fun).  Big Sis will have individual guitar lessons, music theory, art, book club/drama, and p.e.  So that takes a weight off of my shoulders for these extras.

Here is the really great news!  Wiggles will be in the co-op as well for pre-school classes with music, crafts, story time, ABC-123’s, hands on learning and play group!  They use a lot of Abeka resources and he will be used to the format.

I have been seriously debating whether to continue Little Hands to Heaven.  It is a very repetitive guide and he already knows his letters and sounds and numbers and can count.  I am out of printer ink and masking tape and have been too busy to get more with baseball going on.  The amount of copying that the guide requires will suck your printer dry. 

He had been getting bored with LHTH before baseball and not wanting to participate in any of it.  He did start out liking it and enjoying the activities, but as the weeks have went on and it has been the same activities every week…he has shown a preference for the Abeka materials.

We have been doing Abeka sheets instead and it has just went so much smoother and he seems to enjoy it more.   I’m not going to worry about it until baseball is over and then we will try one more week of Little Hands to Heaven and see how it goes before making the final decision as to whether to continue.

Mix and Match week

We are still doing LHTH, but we are doing more Abeka at the same time. 

Letter-F, Review E

Number-7 , Review 3

Bible-Young Moses

I am still without masking tape and ink for my printer so we kind of just winged it this week.

 

Sorting bears by color into their cups and sorting the cups on our Pooh color wheel.

Coloring

Wiggles trying to infiltrate the kitchen and Bubba in the background jumping on the couch.

My mischevious boys acting all sweet after being caught in the act.

Wiggles Ee Abeka page.  We glued salt to our Ee’s for the snow.

Coloring out Abeka 3 page.

Finished page

Practicing Coloring

 

We love trains.

This is an activity from LHTH.  We are studying about Moses and Wiggles had to glue the basket to the water (blue paper) and hide it in the grass.

That is it for our week.  We had a good time even if we weren’t too organized about it.