Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Super Work! Weeks 2 and 3

We have been doing learning trays every week. As some of you know, my daughter calls it her "super work." (I believe I have Dora's Super Map episode to thank for this!) Here are what we have recently worked on!
piano- first thing we do during learning time
light blue tray (religion tray)- coloring pages of Adam and Eve and the Tower of Babel (did not do- we will try this next week)
purple tray (math)- hippopotamus tangram activity
dark blue tray (alphabet)- stamp uppercase letters on the lowercase letter activity page
yellow tray (tracing)- trace first page of the Tracing Kumon workbook in a sheet protector. My Boo loves this! Yay for Kumon!!
red tray (early skills)- page from the Let's Cut Paper Kumon workbook. Cutting is a skill we are still developing!
pink tray (art)- sort shades of purple from lightest to darkest (did not interest my Boo at all- we will try this activity in a few months)
green tray (name)- use stickers to spell her name
piano- first thing we do during learning time
light blue tray (religion tray)- coloring pages of Adam and Eve and the Tower of Babel (from last week)
purple tray (math)- recognize numerals: spin the number spinner and jump that many times over the matching colored bean bag
dark blue tray (alphabet)- place lowercase stickers on uppercase letter activity page
yellow tray (tracing)- use a pencil to trace first page of the Tracing Kumon workbook, do second page of the Tracing Kumon workbook in a sheet protector. I also printed a letter T tracing page and she has already done this one successfully! Boo can now draw lollipops and t's!
red tray (early skills)- cat page from the Let's Cut Paper Kumon workbook.
pink tray (art)- since my daughter LOVES the book There's a Nightmare in My Closet, I thought it would be fun to make a nightmare using material, yarn, googly eyes, and pom poms!!
green tray (name)- use my label machine to type and print Boo's name

Happy Teaching!

Monday, June 14, 2010

Bye Bye Books

I recently went through ALL my children's books for a community service project. It was hard- VERY HARD- to do, but my attic is lighter and the local elementary school is now enjoying over 300 books.
Don't feel too bad for me though- we still have all these tubs full of books (that are not always stored in the kitchen),
plus my leveled reading book tubs, my upper grade picture book tubs, AND all the books in Boo's room, playroom, kitchen cupboard (yes I do have a kitchen cupboard full of children's books! How pathetic am I?)
Happy Teaching!!
p.s. Boo's newest favorite book: There's a Nightmare in My Closet. We just can't get enough of it!