January Book List

Merry Christmas everyone! Here is the book list for January in case anyone will have time to hit the library in the week ahead. I will get a supply list out for the first week or so as soon as I can.

January Book List

Snow Eastman, Philip and Roy Mc Kie

Snow Rylant, Cynthia

Dream Snow Carle, Eric

White Snow, Bright Snow Tresselt, Alvin

Snow Day Laminack, Lester

Tracks in the Snow Wong Herbert Yee

The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats

The Snow Show Carolyn Fisher

Snow Is Falling Branley, Franklyn

Mr. Snow Hargreaves, Roger

It’s Winter Glaser, Linda

Winter Lullaby Seuling, Barbara

The First Day of Winter Fleming, Denise

Winter Woes Marty Kelley

Snow Family Daniel Kirk

Calming the Storm (Sing a Story) Linda Ovresat

Picnics and Peace Allison Bottke

The Fruit of the Spirit is Jesus in Me Dandi Daley Mackall

December's Curriculum

Hey everyone! It seems that our December person was unable to make the curriculum right now so I wanted to check in and see what everyone wanted to do.

I was thinking that maybe we could each agree to make a post this month about a Christmas learning activity we did. We can choose a book, a nursery rhyme/song, and one craft and post about it (with pictures of our kids doing it). What do you think?

November Week 4

Welcome to Week 4! I'm a little late posting - sorry about that! We started our holiday travels early and I didn't make it to the computer in time. I tried to make everything easy for this week since it will probably be pretty busy. Enjoy the lessons and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Here are the lessons.

Prep for Day One
Print these cards to use with the Spanish song and watch the Spanish song video again if you want.

Prep for Day Two
1. The Letter L art is here at the No Time for Flashcards site.
2. Gather: glue, scissors, and construction paper.
3. Print the Phonic Leaf activity.

Prep for Day Three
Gather: bowl, measuring cups, and spoons.

November Week 3

Welcome to Week 3!

Click here for the lessons for this week. Hope the Turkey Trot is fun for your little one, it was smiles and giggles here!

Prep for Day One:
1. Gather materials: construction paper along with brown, red, yellow, and green paints.
2. Look at this picture to get an idea of how your turkey should look.
3. Watch this video for the Spanish Lesson.

Prep for Day Two:
1. Print both pages of the shape picture activity. One is for you to see the final product and the other is for your child to color. I would print the second page on card stock, if you have it, so it stays sturdy through coloring, cutting, and pasting.
2. Gather materials: vinegar, tissue paper (red or pink), white construction paper, and brush.

Prep for Day Three:
1. The Letter K art activity is here.
2. Begin and End Letter K activity sheets are here.

Enjoy!

November Week 2

Welcome to Week 2 - this year has gone by fast!
Here are the lessons for this week. Remember to start your learning days by asking your child what they are thankful for and adding it to their Thanks Box. Be sure to ask Mom and Dad too.

Prep for Day 1
1. Gather Materials:
Bottle Caps
Permanent Marker
Poster Paper
Family Photos
2. Using the marker write one letter of your child's name on each of the bottle caps.
3. Print the Alphabet BottleCap Key.
4. On the poster, draw a picture of a tree. You can use branches or a round top tree.
5. Cut photos of family/friends to get them ready to paste on the tree.
Read books from suggested list.

Prep for Day 2
1. Gather Materials:
pocket
Hershey kisses
paint
fabric glue
ribbon or lace
misc. art materials
2. Print two sets Thanksgiving Matching cards from Montessori for Everyone on card stock or cover back with construction paper.
Read books from suggested list.

Prep for Day 3
1. Gather Materials:
Construction paper
Jelly Beans
2. Check out the Letter J activity on the No Time for Flash Cards site.
3. Watch video of the song at the end of the J for Jelly Bean page.
4. Print Turkeys for sorting and counting.
Read books from suggested list.

Family Tree

We will be making our Family Trees next week. I just wanted to let you know, so that you have you're photos of family members printed and ready to go. It's easy to forget to print photos.

November Week 1

Click here to download the lessons for the week.

Prep for Day One!


 1. Gather materials:
Jack-o-Lantern or old pumpkin
New pumpkin
Tray or newspaper

2. Print The Decayed Pumpkin activity from Sid the Science Kid website.

3. Gather materials:

Shoe or cereal box

Construction paper of various colors (I used scraps)

Things to decorate your box: sequins, pom poms, stickers, etc.

Here is a picture of how our "Thanks" box turned out. I decided not to put a slit in the top of our box. We'll just lift the lid everyday when put a "thanks/blessing" card in the box.

4. Read 2-3 books from the reading list. I recommend Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes.

Prep for Day Two!

1. Print Body Part Cards on card stock.

2. For the Fruit of the Spirit activity read verse 1 John 4:19 "We love because he first loved us."  Think of someone who loves you no matter what. You can make mistakes, and it doesn’t matter what you like like, they will still love you. God loves us too. No matter what. He even loves you more than your parents.  He can help us love others the way we should.

3. Gather materials:

Glue gun

Poster board

Paper

Crayons

Sand paper

4. Use the glue gun to trace hearts of different sizes onto a poster board and let it dry.

5. Cut out hearts from sandpaper and tape them to a piece of poster board.

6. Read 2-3 books from the reading list. I recommend From Head to Toe by Eric Carle and Guess How Much I Love You by Sam Mc Bratney.

Prep for Day Three!

1. Gather materials:

Construction paper - I recommend brown for the letter I.

Glue

Feathers

Here is how our Letter I - Indian turned out. Feel free to edit him as you wish - I'm not an artist! Oh, and I couldn't find my feathers so I used some silk leaves I found at the dollar section in Target.

2. Gather material:

Tray

Paper

Kool-aid powder mix

Ice Cubes

3. Read 2-3 book from the reading list. I recommend This First Thanksgiving Day by Laura Krauss Melmed and This is the FEAST by Diane Z. Shore.

Have fun! Let me know if you have questions or have trouble loading anything.