Finishing out the Year!

Greetings! Here is a brief overview over the final weeks leading up to Christmas Break! 

In Tot School

We are following Carisa’s Rock Star Curriculum and Erica’s LOTW Curriculum for Chipmunk. I mix and match a few things and modify for his interest, ability, and our schedule, of course, but I really so like the combination of what these homeschool moms have created. 

So without further ado, we have been learning:

• How to write the letters H & T
• Pre-writing Practice
• Letter Identification (we love letter mazes for this)
• Letter-Led Bible Verse (we love Steve Green)
• Writing the number 2 (and boy does it pose some challenges
• Size Sorting (we loved the LOTW Turtle sorting for  “T”)
• Cut and Paste (asking a 3 year old to cut, oh my!)

 

• Butterflies (we learned how to make a butterfly with fingers paint and hands)
• Build-a-Pattern (we loved the LOTW Hippo Building for “H”)

In First Grade

Morning:

• Calendar Notebook (Peanut is thinking of ways to make  11)

Math:

• Counting by 10s Review (we love number mazes for this,)
  Addition Mazes (trying to figure out sums of 7, 8, & 9)
  Chapter 2 Test (Peanut ACED it!)

Social Studies:

• 13 Colonies and how they began(matching using card print outs and yarn!)

Science:

• Life Cycles of a Frog & Butterfly

English:

• Adding “s” and “es” to nouns
  Compound words/nouns

Reading:

• We read out first play and acted it out!

Bible:

• Balaam & Balak (Peanut love the part about donkey and the angel!)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Addition Mazes

I love the letter and number mazes that I have found for my tot. However, my 1st grader has been a little disheartened that his brother has all the "fun learning." So, in an effort to make math even more fun, I created some addition mazes as well. The concept is the same, except instead of number and letter and identification, students have to determine which addition equation equal the given sums.

You can download the mazes here.

Enjoy,
MissMom

Growing Seeds

Last week, we are exploring living and non-living things in Science.

• We have learned:
• The difference between living and non-living
• What all living things needs to survive
• What is necessary for things to grow 

We ended the week with a cool and fun science experiment on sprouting seeds.
Peanut learned what main element is needed for seeds (and all other living things, for that matter) to grow.

We used Red Wheat Grass seeds for the experiment. With just water and 5 days, the seeds began to sprouted.

If you would like to complete this science experiment for yourself, please download it here.

I used this for my (advanced) 1st grader who is on 2nd grade curriculum, but I am sure most 1st-3rd graders would easily be comfortable completing this experiment.