This week has been intense, and thus most of our homeschooling has been sporadic!  We’ll be doing a few more structured things once the big event we’ve been planning for is over.  So, needless to say…no pictures SO far this week, but I did want to post our Lesson Plans for this week.

Reading

-We reviewed the letter A
-Introduced the Letter B
-”Letter B” Coloring Worksheet (I draw out my own, but you can google them and find them online as printouts!)
-This week, our focus is the letter B, so we’re paying close attention to all things that begin with the letter B SO our books will focus on BEARS, BALLS, BUBBLES, BUNNIES, BUTTERFLIES,BABIES, etc.  It’s pretty open ended this week since I do NOT have time to get to the library.  We’re just going with what we have!
-Art with the letter B.  Aside from the coloring sheet, we are going to have an art project.  Possibly a balloon head and bubble blowing!  We are going for EASY this week!
-Practice writing the letter B (we’ll focus on this MORE next year, this is just to practice to help her identify the letter)

Life Skills

-We’re still working on putting toys away.  She knows HOW and CAN, we just want it to be routine, without asking.
-Cooking with mom - this week she observed at the counter while I made berry shortcakes for dessert.  Unfortunately, I was in a huge hurry (again) so she didn’t actively HELP, but she did get to watch and was quite pleased to play in the leftover melted butter.
-Practice spreading peanut butter on bread
-Practice taking clothes off and putting pants on by herself

Foreign Language

-”Hola” means “hello” in spanish

Motor Skills

-lacing cards (you can make these with yarn, a hole punch, and construction paper OR buy some from Melissa and Doug)
-puzzles (5 pieces or less are good to start with)

Position and Direction

-Fast vs Slow - To teach her this one, we run in place really fast as I say “fast” and then I do it in slow motion and say “sllloooowww”…then, we do it together all around the house.  She thinks it’s hilarious and caught on REALLY FAST!  :)  (Or, quickly)

Sorting

-Big vs Little - We began this one last week, but basically I put my hands close together and say SMALL, then spread my arms out and say BIG!  Then, I’ll find a small toy (a block) and do the hand motion and say SMALL.  Next, I’ll go to her rocking chair and say BIG!  After several times, she caught on…so, now we just practice with different toys and sizes.  She gets it!—especially with really small and particularly big objects…it gets harder when we talk about Medium objects, but we’ll tackle that one later!

Colors

-GREEN!  This week, we’re introducing the letter GREEN!  Well…we’ve talked about colors some, but we’re going to focus on one at a time for a bit.  I’ll start by finding 3 green objects around the house and put them in a pile and ask her to find more GREEN objects.  I think I may find baskets for each primary color and each one eventually be filled with like colors and I may get some M&Ms and give her a “green” m&m every time she brings me a green toy/object.  It could be her snack :)  Also, I love the idea of taking it a step further and PHOTOGRAPHING these piles of colored objects and then adding some text in photoshop and then printing them to go in a book.  Of course, if you don’t have a photoediting program, you could always glue the photo to colored construction paper and write a caption on the bottom with the color.  It’d be their own color book with their own toys/objects from their home!

Shapes

-Square.  One of our lacing shapes is actually a GREEN SQUARE, thus the combo for shape and color.  We will probably do this similarly to how I’m teaching her colors.  With the addition of DRAWING squares.

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