new things....

Carly really knows the ABC's well and all of the sounds...so I think I may move on from doing a letter per week and start doing sounds. She is so eager to read and since she already knows the sounds of all the letters I am going to skip the rest of the alphabet for her and start with vowel sounds. I will be using Explode the Code workbooks to help with this.


As far as Sam goes I will continue to do a shape and color per week, as well as counting and reviewing all the letters so he can become familiar with them.



October 11-15
Vowel of the week: Short A Sound
Letter of the Week: A
Lesson 1 in Explode the Code
Nursery Rhyme or poem: An Acorn Story
Week activities:


Circle Time
Word: Angry or Anger
Song: If you chance to meet a frown.....
Scripture:
Color: Orange
Shape: Triangle
Weather
Calendar
Pledge of Allegiance
Counting



Letter: A (I'll still do letter of the week for Sam, mostly I'll just introduce the letter and sound during circle time but I won't worry about making all the activities go along with that letter.)
I'm thinking of making an Alphabet Train and each week we'll add a train car to the train.


Prep: Print of An Acorn Story, find pictures to go along with the story, find pictures for the Long A sound. Print off word strips with short A sound, try to find music with the Long A sound.

Monday
Circle Time- Discuss what Angry means
*Stretch*
Language: Introduce Long A sound, post pictures with word strips
Explode the Code worksheets
Sight Words
Read Nursery Rhyme or Story
Music Time
Reading Time




Tuesday
Circle Time- How can we control our anger?
*Stretch*
Language: Short A sound, pictures and word
Explode the Code worksheets
Sight Words
Nursery Rhyme or Story
Music Time

Science: ants (videos on ants)





Wednesday
Circle Time- What do you get angry about?
*Stretch*
Language- Short A sounds, word strips
Explode the Code Worksheets
Sight Words
Nursery Rhyme or Story
Music Time

Art:




Thursday
Circle Time- Review
*stretch*
Language- Review with Long A worksheet
Explode the Code worksheets
Sight Words
Nursery Rhyme or Story
Music Time


Friday
Circle Time- Review
*Stretch*
Language- review
Explode the Code worksheets
Sight Words, practice writing
Nursery Rhyme or Story
Music Time
Worksheet for Sam: Color Shape

Letter P

Letter of the Week: Letter P
Nursery Rhyme: Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
Week Activities: Play-dough, puzzles

I am going to Introduce Sight Words to Carly this week. I will do 5 per week.

Circle Time
Word: Prayer
Song: I Love to Pray
Scripture: Alma 37:37
Color: Purple
Shape: Triangle
Weather
Calendar
Pledge of Allegiance
Counting

prep: picture of someone praying, Music Time CD, Flag with Pledge of Allegiance, print off Nursery Rhyme

Monday: Library Day
Circle Time- What is praying? How do you pray? Who do you pray to?
Introduce Letter and Sound
Sight Words: and, is, am, our, I
Read Nursery Rhyme
Music Time- Dr. Jean CD
Reading

Prep: find videos of penguins


Tuesday
Circle Time- What do you say in a prayer?
Letter and Sound
Sight Words:
Nursery Rhyme
Music Time
Science: Penguins (watch video clips, penguin puppets, where do they live? What do they eat?)
Reading

prep: paper bags, print off pig patterns


Wednesday
Circle Time
Letter and Sound
Sight Words:
Nursery Rhyme
Music Time
Reading
Art: Paper bag Pig Puppet

prep: cut strips for paper chain (purple strips)

Thursday
Circle Time
Letter and Sound
Sight Words:
Nursery Rhyme
Music Time
Reading
Counting Activity- paper chain (counting the links)

prep: cut out shapes needed for game

Friday
Circle Time
Letter and Sound
Sight Words: Have Carly choose one to practice writing
Nursery Rhyme
Music Time
Reading
Color/Shape activity- Hop to It (make purple Triangle, yellow squares, green circles, orange Diamond.....tape to floor in random places. Close enough that the kids can jump from one to another. Yell out either a shape or color and they have to jump on the correct one.)

color worksheets

Letter O

Letter of the Week: O
Nursery Rhyme: One for Sorrow
Week Activities: bubbles, playing in pool, play-dough
Prep: Make picture to help with song


Circle Time
Word: Obedience
Song: Choose the Right Way #160
Scripture: Moses 6:33
Color: Red
Shape: Oval
Weather
Calendar
Counting: 1-10

Monday- LIBRARY DAY
Circle Time
Introduce Letter and Sound
Read Books
Prep: Print nursery Rhyme and pictures to go with
Find video on octopus, print octupus coloring page

Tuesday-
Circle Time
Letter and Sound
Nursery Rhyme
Science: Talk about Octupus (watch video, where do they live, count their arms)
Color picture
Prep: Get art supplies for next day

Wednesday
Circle Time
Letter and Sound
Nursery Rhyme
Art: Octopus (styrofoam ball covered in paint or material, use pipe cleaners or ribbon for legs, google eyes, attatch to a dowel. It can be used as a puppet)

Prep: no prep

Thursday
Circle Time
Letter and Sound
Nursery Rhyme
Counting activity: hop, skip, clap etc.... 10 times
reading time
Prep: print letter worksheet, make shape worksheet to color

Friday
Circle Time
Letter and sound
Nursery Rhyme
Color/shape activity: Walk around the house and look for color and shape.

Color Worksheets

Letter N

Letter of the Week: Letter N
Nursery Rhyme: The North wind doth blow
Week activity: summersaults, blowing bubbles, playdough

Circle Time
Song: Give said the little Stream
Scripture: Genesis 1:10
Word of the week:Nature
Color: Green
Shape: diamond
Weather
Calendar
Counting: 1-10


Monday
Circle Time- Introduce Letter and Sound, color and shape
Nursery Rhyme- read 3 times, show pictures to help them learn it
Book-
Week Activity

Tuesday
Circle Time- Find things that begin with N
Nursery Rhyme- read once, have them say it with you the second time
Book
Science/Social Studies- nose (have them smell different things)
Week Activity- summersaults

Wednesday
Circle Time
Nursery Rhyme
Book
Art- Noahs' Ark (make an ark from brown paper, print off animals they can color and cut out, have them glue to on the ark.)
Week Activity -blowing bubbles

Thursday
Circle Time
Nursery Rhyme
Book
Numbers: Count different groups of things (blocks, animals, books)
Week Activity - playdough

Friday
Circle Time
Nursery Rhyme
Book
Letter N and Shape worksheets
Week Activity -let the kids choose
(Nursery Rhyme Art): Paint a picture of a robin, attatch to a popsicle stick.

Letter M

Letter of the Week: M
Nursery Rhyme: Mary, Mary Quite contrary
Week Activities: Summersaults, matching game

Circle Time
Word: Missionary
Song: I want to be a missionary Now pg. 168
Scripture: Alma 32:23
Color: Orange
Shape: Square
Weather
Calendar


Monday
Circle Time
Reading
Week Activities
Introduce Letter and Sound


Tuesday
Circle Time
Reading/Nursery Rhyme
Letter and Sound
Science: Moon (what is it, where is it, shape, color?)
Week Activity


Wednesday
Circle Time
Reading/ Nursery Rhyme
Letter and Sound
Art: Mouse paper bag puppet
Week Activity


Thursday
Circle Time
Reading/Nursery
Letter and Sound
(Extra Activity- glue orange squares on a peice of paper)
Week Activity


Friday
Circle Time
Reading/ Nursery Rhyme
Letter and Sound
Letter M and Shape Worksheet
Week Activity

Letter L

Letter of the Week: L
Nursery Rhyme: Little Miss Muffet
Week Activites: summersaults and throwing balls in a bucket, leap frog

Circle Time
Word: Love
Song: Reverence is Love pg. 31
Scripture: 4 Nephi 1:15
Color: yellow
Shape: Star
Weather
Calendar


Monday
Circle Time
Reading
Introduce Letter and Sound
Nursery Rhyme
Science: leaves (different colors, shapes, sizes. Go on a leaf hunt)

Tuesday:
Circle Time
Reading
Weekly activity- Leap Frog

Wednesday
Circle Time
Reading
Letter and Sound
Nursery Rhyme
Art: Lady Bug (cut out a circle paper, paint it red, attach black dots and legs)


Thursday
Circle Time
Reading
Weekly activity- summersaults
Find things that begin with L

(*extra activity to go with color and shape. Glue yellow stars on blue paper to make a night sky)


Friday
Circle Time
Reading
Letter and Sound
Nursery Rhyme
Letter L Worksheet, Shape worksheet

Letter K

Letter of the Week: K

Circle Time

Word: Kind
Scripture: Luke 6:31
Weather:
Calendar

Monday:
Circle Time
Introduce Letter and Sound and Write
Nursery Rhyme: Old King Cole
Shape and Color:  Diamond, Silver (color a diamond silver)


Tuesday
Circle Time
Letter sound and write
What begins with K?
Number of the Week: 7 (count and write)

Wednesday
Circle Time
Letter and Sound
Review number of the week:7
Art: Make a kite (cut out diamond from paper, decorate with craft supplies)
Storytime

Thursday
Circle Time
Letter sound and Write
Review number of the week:7 (count and write)
Science: Koala

Friday
Circle Time
Letter and Sound and write
review color, shape and number
(Flashcards)
Storytime

Letter K

Letter of the Week: K
Nursery Rhyme: Kookaburra

Library Books:



Circle Time:
Theme: Kindness
Song:Kindness begins with me pg. 145
Scripture: Luke 6:31
Practice writing name


Tuesday
Circle Time: dicuss what kindness is. Who should be kind? What can we do to be kind?
Language: Introduce letter K, sound and write
Nursery Rhyme
Find things that begin with K
Reading Time

Science/ social studies: Kangaroos (where do they live? What do they eat? How do they get around?) find videos on You Tube

Thursday
Circle Time: review kindness
Language: Letter K, sound and write
Nursery Rhyme
Find things that begin with K
Reading Time

Art: decorate a Kite (cut out a kite shape from paper, attatch some ribbon, decorate with glitter, stickers, cut up paper?)


Friday
Cirlce Time
Language: Letter K
Nursery Rhyme
Find things that begin with K
Reading Time

Letter K worksheet

Letter J

Letter Of the Week: J
Nursery Rhyme: Jack and Jill

Library Books:
Jamberry by Bruce Degen
Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw
Five little Monkey's Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow

Circle Time:
Theme- Jesus Christ
Song: I'm trying to be like Jesus
Scripture: John 13:15
Practice writing Name

*This week is Spring break, St. Patricks day is On wednesday so I will be discussing Rainbows, leprachans, the color green, shamrocks
(make a rainbow with fruit loops, decorate house with green crepe paper, find clovers outside)

Tuesday
Circle Time: Talk about Jesus (who is he, why is he important?)
Language: Intorduce Letter J, sound, practice writing
Nursery Rhyme
Reading Time
Find things that begin with J

Social Studies/ Science: Jellyfish (what are they? Where do they live? What do they eat?)
Look up videos on You Tube


Thursday
Circle Time: Review (How can we be like Jesus?)
Language: Review Letter J
Nursery Rhyme
Reading Time


Art: Jellyfish (paper plate, crepe paper)


Friday
Circle Time: Review
Language: Review Letter J
Nursery Rhyme
Reading Time

Review Jellyfish

Do letter J Worksheet

March 8-13 Letter I

Letter of the Week: I

Nursery Rhyme: Inchworm

Library Books:
Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni
THe Iguana Brothers by Tony Johnston
THe igloo by Charlotte and Davie Yue
Inside, Outside, Upside down by Stan and Jan Berenstain

Circle Time:
Theme: Plan Of Salvation/ Pre-mortal Life
Song: I lived in Heaven #4
Scripture: D&C 138:56
Calandar
Practice Writing Name


Tuesday
Circle Time- Discuss Pre-mortal life (we lived in heaven before we came to earth)
Language- Introduce Letter I, sound and Practice writing
Nursery Rhyme
Reading
Find Things that begin with I

Social Studies/ Science :ICE (explore ice, cold or hot? Watch it melt, how does ice form?)
Look at picture of icicles, iceburgs.....You Tube videos of Iceburgs and Igloos

Hands on Project: ??? still thinking

Thursday

Circle Time: Review Pre-mortal life, where do we go after this life. We have a Heavenly Father and Mother

Language Arts: Review Letter I, sound and write
Nursery Rhyme
Reading Time
Find things that begin with I

Art: Make an Indian Headband
Talk about Indian, who are they, what do they do. Watch a video clip on Indians
song: Ten little Indians

Friday
Circle Time: Review topic

Language Arts: Review letter I
Nursery Rhyme
Reading Time
Find things that begin with I

Color letter I worksheet

Hands on Activity: Digging in Dirt (look for "inchworms")

March 1-7

I am now only doing this three times a week verses 5 times like before. (Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday)

Letter of the week: H
Nursery Rhyme: Hark Hark the dogs do bark

Library Books:
Hectors Hiccups by Lee Wardlaw
Old Hat New Hat by Stan and Jan Berenstain
The big Honey Hunt by Stand and Jan Berenstain

Circle Time:
Theme: Heavenly Father
Song: pg. 228
Scripture: 3 Nephi 13:32
Calendar
Practice writing name


Tuesday:
Circle Time: Discuss Heavenly Father (who is he?)
Language: Introduce Letter H and sound
Practice writing
Nursery Rhyme
Reading time

Find things that begin with H (i will just look at pictures today, I won't have her actually circle or color until friday after we reviewed the sound with each picture)

Social Studies/Science: Hippos (what are they, where do they live, what do they eat? Look for videos on You Tube)

Color Hippo page


Thursday:
Circle Time: Heavenly Father created the earth and us
Language Arts: Letter H, sound and write
Nursery Rhyme
Reading Time
Things that begin with H
Art Project: Handprint Collage


Friday:
Circle Time: Review what we talked about Tuesday and Thursday
Language: Review letter H, sound and write
Nursery Rhyme
Reading Time
Review Hippos and things that being with H

Letter H Worksheet

back in the saddle again....

We took a longer break than I thought. I am determined to get back into the swing of things. We returned home to a new house and a new schedule. Carly has started pre-school two days a week, which has been perfect but I still feel the need to do a little home-pre-schooling. I've changes some things around, I think it'll work smoother and it's much simpler. I will be doing it three days a week instead of five. I have cut out the math, the flashcard words, and the color of the week. Instead of doing a science and a social studies I will do one or the other on Tuesdays, art on Thursdays and the letter worksheet on Fridays. I am pumped to get started, let's hope I stay this pumped. I know Carly LOVES it and she will be thrilled once she realizes what we are doing again. So, on March 2 we will begin where we left off. The letter "H".