Homeschool Week 2 - Bb

Monday. It's Talk like a Pirate Day so of course, we forego the letter of the week for pirate fun, with a small snack exception. We had bagel bugs. Sound yummy?I had as much fun as the boy did on Talk like a Pirate day. I made him a pirate costume, a treasure map (that he had to follow to find a treasure) , and a cardboard pirate ship - it was a complete hit!

Our books and the fly craft to go with Old Black Fly.

  

    

We did some bug collecting and made a pirate handprint.

Tuesday: Bb is for blueberries. What fun we had this day! We read Blueberries for Sal and Jamberry, ate blueberries, made blueberry muffins

  and blueberry jam                 ,

                               

                                     and made blueberry crafts.

Wednesday: Bb is for butterflies. Last year we grew butterflies from caterpillars so we talked about what he remembered from that experiment. We used pasta to make a butterfly life cycle diagram. 

We made a butterfly feeder with sugar water and sponges  

 We had a butterfly themed snack to go with some butterfly cookies we picked up at the farmer's market earlier in the day and made butterfly crafts. 

Thursday: Bb is for bear. We had bear crafts,

 bear snacks,

 bear books...but our science/activity fun was something a little different. 

We made a big (plastic) bubble outside that the boy could play in

We had Peanut Butter balls for snack. 

Since it also happened to be the first day of fall, we had a fall craft.

and we made bubbles with baking soda.

Friday: Bb is for balls. This is a fun theme for boys. We made our own homemade bouncy balls. 

Homeschool Week 1

NOTE: I love handprint/footprint arts and crafts so we do a lot of these types of things. While our main materials are Explode the Code and MathUSee, I have to give a big thanks to confessionsofahomeschooler.com for all the supplemental materials we are using this year. It's been a lot of fun and has really helped solidify his understanding of each letter so far in a fun way.

We started the year read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and doing an activity that our library had to go along with the book. In the corner of our homeschool area (also the kitchen dining area) I have a bulletin board tree on the wall. Every week as we start a new letter, D will put the letter on the tree. We are also counting up to the 100th day of school so every day he adds a paper clip to our chain.

Our homeschool year began with the letter F. Every day we talked about a different topic beginning with /f/. Our themes of the day were family, frog, fish, flowers, and face. Our homeschool time basically looks like this: start with the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by phonics time, math time, reading, arts and crafts and science, then snack time.

On Monday we talked about family and family trees and read a Flat Stanley book. We also enjoyed activities from http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2010/11/letter-f-for-fish.html

On Tuesday we did a float or sink science experiment, played leapfrog, read frog books, had a cool frog snack, and made some froggy crafts and more activities from confessionofahomeschooler.com

On Wednesday we talked about fish and their life cycles, had goldfish for snack and made fun fish crafts, and yes, more confessions of a homeschooler activities.

On Thursday we talked about what flowers need to grow, made pretzel flower snacks and put together some flower crafts. and more confessionsofahomeschooler fun.

We ended our first week of homeschooling talking about our faces, and more specifically moods our faces show. We made mood face cookies for snack and mood masks for arts and crafts time, and more confessionsofahomeschooler activities.