Cookie's Week

Lexi and I stayed home to finish dinner while everyone else went swimming.  We thought we would sit on the kitchen floor and read a few books from her wagon of books.  We started with Cars! Cars! Cars! by Grace Maccarone, next we read Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree by Eileen Christelow, our last book was Cookie's Week by Cindy Ward.  Lexi jumped from my lap after I read on Monday...Cookie fell in the toilet.  I got up to follow her, as I glanced around the corner she was pulling the days of the week off the velcro chart.  She wobbled herself back into the kitchen sat on my lap and laid the days of the week in her lap.  As I read through the book she attempted to find the day of the week and put it up the book. 

You know this is an example of just how much those little ears pick up as I teach her siblings.  She really amazes me.

All in One Math Folder (Prep for Singapore)

I took the math prep sheet for Singapore that came with our 1st grade MFW curriculum and added a few more things. You can do this in a spreadsheet, but I had already laminated the sheet on my folder so I took a permenant marker to it. I like it in the laminated folder because this is something he can also take to do in the car with his sisters.

I added a section for the tally marks, ones and tens place value, and how can we make this amount in coins? I have seen something similar on another blog but I can't recall which one (sorry). They used a calendar instead of a 100 chart. I like the 100 chart because he can learn to identify and write his numbers to 100, add money up to a higher amount, number sentences to a higher sum than 31, oral word problems higher than 31, I think you get the idea. I velcroed a ziploc bag to the folder with contains are expanded form cards (prep for Singapore) and a clock to teach time (up to 12:00) with our number of the day also.

As I mentioned above we didn't use a calendar because the kids write in their prayer journal each day. They have to write the date in that.

They pull the laminated months from here and then copy the month onto the prayer journal. This way they learn the months and how to spell them as well as learning how to write out dates.

Cuisenaire Rods

In an attempt to find more for my preschooler, Micah, I bought the Cuisenaire Rods Alphabet Book (K-4) from http://www.mfwbooks.com/ . Micah has really enjoyed using the rods along with this book. The activities cover counting, area, problem solving, symmetry, addition, and multiplication.

If you are looking for something extra for your preschooler I highly recommend this.

Telling Time

We our learning to tell time this week. We are using the book Telling Time with Big Mama Cat and our clock manipulative. Makes learning to tell time fun and easy.

Counting by Two's

Last week we read Count on Pablo, this week we read Two Ways to Count to Ten. Afterwards Micah and Lauren were throwing the ball up in the air counting by 2's to 10 before the ball came back down. Then they thought it would be fun to throw the ball at their heads counting to 10 by 2's. Thus explaining the protective gear.

Count on Pablo

Lauren, Micah, and I read Count on Pablo for math this week. The book teaches counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's. This was a great book. Both kids really enjoyed reading and counting. Lauren insisted on us making Pablo's salsa, so Friday we took a trip to the grocery store. Lauren brought along Count on Pablo for the ingredient list.

I just love the little shopping baskets and so does Micah.


Of course, we had to try out all the samplers.





Lauren checked us out and Micah bagged.

Making Pablo's salsa.

Decimal Street

Well we are switching to Math U See for Hannah. Hoping this will help her with understanding math. Horizons seems to be working well for Lauren, but we will see how Math U See goes and we may just switch her too.

Here is a lapbook I created to go along with the Math U See Decimal Street. The idea came from http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/barrynmissy1972/630530/. Thank you!

So the truck, car and bike I laminated and velcroed to the street. You can use a dry erase marker and wipe away when done. The houses are units, tens, hundreds. Math U See has a story to go along with decimal street. The hundreds house is glued and folds to fit in folder.

Laminated the chart and velcroed, so if I ever need to replace I can. This way all three kids will be able to use this book.

The streets are made out of felt.