Activity 5, 6, and 7

Wow, what a super busy two weeks. Our most exciting activity was closing on our house! We are super excited. It has great bones but we also get to renovate.

Next, we started and completed our first project. We have a big yard but I wanted a corner off the deck as a hands on discovery center. I took ideas from the Lowe's May creative ideas magazine and ideas from those HGTV yard crashers. The kids love it!

And lastly...I've been searching for an older dog for a while now. Our 1 year old Jersey is rambunctious and an escape artist. She wants to play with other dogs so bad, she goes to great lengths to escape and find other doggies. We knew she'd be too rowdy for a puppy. So along comes Dude a neutered male boxer. He was well taken care of, has great manners and so far it's been great. He is so gentle with the kids and he craves their attention without being annoying or hurting them. He seems to really like out dog Jersey and I have a feeling our house is perfect for him. Yay for everything going great!

We all scream...

...for ice cream!

We had an hour break from the rain tonight and got ice cream for everyone.

Activity 3-car wash

Workin at tha car wash


Today was a good day. We are participating in the summer library program so we did that, had lunch and even took a nap. Nice for mommy at least! ha

To end our day I set up one of the home activities I wanted to do...car wash! Even my big kids didn't mind this because it was so hot and the water was refreshing. The little marshmallow's had a blast. Some water, soap and a few wash cloths and they are in heaven. They must have washed their cars two or three times a piece. Just in time too, because a big thunderstorm is rolling in. We are suppose to go to the pool tomorrow, but we might get rained out. I need to check over my list and find an indoor activity.

Happy summer! 

Activity 2/What We Did This Summer-2012

6 in the bed and the little one said "roll over...roll over."

We were all hoping for our activity to be more exciting today-however first the heat was oppressive. Yuck, like clothes stick to your body oppressive. Instead we sort of camped out all day in my room. Then it ended up raining. More boo. So we are again watching movies. At least we ordered some new one's. First up was Journey 2, which is silly and after the four littles are in bed we will watch John Carter. We are hoping the imbd score is wrong and it is better than the critics say. 

Summer Fun Day 1

Today began our family 2012 daily summer adventures. My goal is to do something fun everyday. Yes, I'm being a bit ambitious. Someday's I have blocked to do the same weekly activity but other's we will do something different. We will do paid activities and activities that cost little to nothing. The main goal is just to have fun as a family.

I woke up around 7:30 and made a quick breakfast of a hashbrowns and eggs. Good thing it was a hearty breakfast because they ran around playing hard.

Today's adventure was at a splash park. The marshmallows are very social and quickly made some friends to make sandcastles and splash around. We had lunch and everyone crashed at home to veg out for a couple of movies. We will top our day off with a grilled dinner, some kiddie pool time and a purple cow coke float. Fun. Fun!

Summer time!

It's summer! For the first time in forever, we are actually taking a real summer break too. The kids are super excited. If you're interested check back often. I plan to blog about our summer adventures, kindergarten graduation and getting ready for the new school year! 

Kindergarten: Sept 5th-9th lesson plans 2011-2012 school year

First weeks lesson plans:

Time Schedule:


7:25-Arrival. Pledge, Patriotic songs, one song in French, one in Spanish.


Resources: 
 America The Beautiful
 It’s a small world
 Frere Jacques in french
 Frere Jacques in Spanish


7:40- Circle Time


Start with Welcome song

Calendar time

Today is?

Days of the week song.

Weather chat.

Welcome to Kindergarten!

(Sung to the tune of "Deck The Halls") Welcome to our kindergarten.               We will learn a lot of things today. Here we are in kindergarten. We will have a lot of time to play. We will learn the alphabet and We will learn how to write numbers, too. We'll have fun in kindergarten, 'Cause there are so many things to do!

Good Morning Boogie

Hello Neighbor, what do you say?
(Children bow to each other)
It's going to be a happy day.
(Children clap hands together)
So greet your neighbor,
(Children give each other high fives)
And boogie on down.
(Children wiggle their hips)
Give 'em a bump,
(Children bump their hips together)
and turn around.
(Children turn around)

Alphabet song and letter of the day.

Rhyme time.

Color.

Shape.

Count.

Poem

8:00-Math

8:30-Reading

9:10-Recess

9:30-wash hands, drink and snacks

9:45-Science Mon, Wed, Friday

        Individual learning time Tuesday and Thursday

10:30-History Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

           Computer  learning time Mondays and Fridays

11:00-Learning Centers

11;30-Play Centers

12:00-Lunch

12:45-Arts and Crafts Time

1:45-Clean up and dismissal

Monday Sept 5th

Math-

Watch and sing Teddy Bear Counting song twice.

Then practice counting backwards from 10 twice.

Show Teddy Bear counting cards. Let kids practice number recognition.

Play Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear counting game.

Practice writing numbers 1-5 on slate boards with no pressure or correction

while watching How to write numbers video

Reading/Phonics-

Watch Alphabet song, letting kids dance and sing.

Watch Letter A and learn sound.

Color Aa worksheet-use color of the day 

Give Brown Bear desk tags, and let kids tape onto desk. 

go over colors, and ask what type of animals they see and

have them tell the colors.

Read book encouraging kids to read along.

Use pocket chart letting kids put together the sentence

"Brown bear, brown bear what do you see?"

Kids color brown bear and red bird color sheets

Science (will do a lighter version of whatever Nicko is doing)

Computer Learning Time

Do find letter activity

Arts and Crafts

Brown Bear Craft

Tuesday Sept 6th 2011

Poem

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear 
Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn around.
Teddy bear, teddy bear, touch the ground.
Teddy bear, teddy bear, up on tiptoes.
Teddy bear, teddy bear, touch your nose.
Teddy bear, teddy bear, walk to me.
Teddy bear, teddy bear, bend your knee.
Teddy bear, teddy bear, hop around,
Teddy bear, teddy bear, sit on the ground.
 

Math

Watch and sing Teddy Bear Counting song twice.

Then practice counting backwards from 10 twice.

Show Teddy Bear counting cards. Let kids practice number recognition.

Play Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear counting game.

Practice writing numbers 1-5 on slate boards with no pressure or correction

while watching How to write numbers video

Reading/Phonics-

Watch Alphabet song, letting kids dance and sing.

Watch Letter A and learn sound.

Color letter A apple worksheet.

Go over Brown Bear desk tags, going through animals

and colors.

Read book encouraging kids to read along.

Use pocket chart letting kids put together the sentence

"Brown bear brown bear, what do you see?" Explain what

a question mark is. Introduce each color word and let kids

guess which word is which.

Kids color yellow duck and blue horse.

Individual learning time/15 min for each

Do name chant to learn spelling

Trace name on paper, allow them to try and write on slate board

Practice writing numbers 1-5 on slate board

Learn to tie shoes

Criss Cross Tying Shoes
(Tune: Splish Splash I was taking a Bath)
Criss Cross and go under the bridge
Then you got to pull it tight.
Make a loop but keep a long tail
That is how to do it right
Then you take the other string
and you wrap it 'round the loop
Pull it through the hole
Now you got the scoop
Criss Cross and go under the bridge (this is where you tie the loops together)
Now you made a Double Knot!


History (light version of what Nicko is doing)

Arts and Crafts 


Play the Brown Bear Dice game


Wednesday Sept 7th

Math-

Watch and sing counting forwards and back song twice.

Show Teddy Bear counting cards. Let kids practice number recognition.

On white board write numerals 1-10. Erase some letting kids practice figuring

out the missing numbers.

Practice writing numbers 1-5 on slate boards with no pressure or correction

while watching How to write numbers video

Reading/Phonics-

Watch Abc's with Elmo

Watch Letter B and learn sound

Color letter B-use color of the day 

Go over Brown Bear desk tags, and let kids tell 

colors and animals.

Read book encouraging kids to read along.

Use pocket chart letting kids practice reading color

words, and then trying to write them on slates.

Kids color Green Frog and Purple Cat color sheets

Science (will do a lighter version of whatever Nicko is doing)

History (lighter version of what Nicko is doing.)

School out at 11:00 for Science class at Health museum.

Thursday Sept 8th 2011

Math-

Watch and sing counting forwards and back song twice.

Show Teddy Bear counting cards. Let kids practice number recognition.

On white board write numerals 1-10. Erase some letting kids practice figuring

out the missing numbers.

Practice writing numbers 1-5 on slate boards with no pressure or correction

while watching How to write numbers video

Reading/Phonics-

Watch Abc's with Elmo

Color letter b is for banana-use color of the day 

Go over Brown Bear desk tags, and let kids tell 

colors and animals.

Read book encouraging kids to read along.

Use pocket chart letting kids practice reading color

words, and then trying to write them on slates.

Kids color White dog and black sheep color sheets

Individual learning time/15 min for each

Do name chant to learn spelling

Trace name on paper, allow them to try and write on slate board

Practice writing numbers 1-5 on slate board

Learn to tie shoes

Criss Cross Tying Shoes
(Tune: Splish Splash I was taking a Bath)Criss Cross and go under the bridge
Then you got to pull it tight.
Make a loop but keep a long tail
That is how to do it right
Then you take the other string
and you wrap it 'round the loop
Pull it through the hole
Now you got the scoop
Criss Cross and go under the bridge (this is where you tie the loops together)
Now you made a Double Knot!

History (lighter version of what Nicko is doing)

Arts and crafts

Glue paper masks to sticks and let kids act out the story