Week 16 of Pre-K

(This week we focused on transportation. To read more about this unit, activities I created and resources I found online, click here.)

Bible Verse: Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. (1 Corinthians 9:24)

Math

 Number identification

 Skip counting 10-100

 Skip counting 100-1000

 Ordering numbers 1-10

Working on odd/even numbers

Saxon Math K

Reviewing ABB patterns

This week we also reviewed telling time to the half hour.

We also read a few fun math books:

Gobble Gobble Crash!: A Barnyard Counting Bash written by Julie Stiegemeyer

Math Curse written by Jon Scieszka

Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math Adventure written by Cindy Neuschwander 

Go for THE CODE

This week J reviewed the letter Yy and the sound /y/ and the letter Vv and the sound /v/. She continued working on writing all the letters.

Reading

 All smiles during our phonics instruction one day. She was acing her lesson :)

 We are using The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading for phonics instruction and Jenni is reading Bob Books: Set 1 for Beginning Readers. This week we kept all our read-aloud books within the transportation theme. To check out our book list, click here - we loved our read-aloud books this week!

Science
Rampin' It from Mudpies to Magnets

We set up a ramp and practiced rolling cars down the ramp. Jenni predicted and then tested to see which cars go the fastest and slowest.

Geography

We are using Evan-Moore's Beginning Geography, Grades K-2 book to learn about map skills, landforms and bodies of water, and continents and oceans. This week Jenni reviewed directions (left, right, up, and down).

My Blue Boat (Before Five in a Row)

 To keep with the transportation theme, this week we rowed My Blue Boat written by Chris L. Demarest. We read the story each day, did the supplemental activities in the B4FIAR manual, and worked on the lapbook.

 

Art

Jenni's Tire Prints

Joshua's Tire Prints

 Color by Number

Other Transportation Activities

Teaching J Tic Tac Toe strategies

Shadow Matching

 J winning the first round of bingo

Working on the alphabet train puzzle

 

Identifying and putting together 3-piece transportation puzzles

Transportation Memory Game

Sorting the vehicles based on direction

I love Jenni's thinking faces. She was matching vehicles to the written name.

 

Spelling

Joshua

 Joshua was enjoying playing with his cars and trains until Jenni started her writing work. Whenever Jenni starts writing, Joshua stops what he is doing and asks for a paper and crayon so he can write too :)

Joshua enjoyed making tire prints and once he had enough of that he enjoyed making hand prints :)

Week 15 of Pre-K

Bible Verse: "Lord, teach us to to pray..." (Luke 11:1)
Math

 Jenni practiced counting objects up to twenty and writing numbers 1-20.

 We reviewed time. Jenni looked at her flashcards and determined what time it was (1 o'clock to 12 o'clock) and then she flipped her cards over to check (1:00-12:00).

 After reviewing time to the hour, we began working on time to the half-hour.

 Saxon Math K: We focused on naming a shape piece using three attributes - shape, color, and size. J described each piece (large blue triangle, small red square, etc.). Then we played a game. We took turns taking a piece away from the matrix and the other person had to say which piece is missing naming the three attributes.

Other Saxon lessons this week included ordering numbers 0-20, counting backward from 20, identifying a missing number, and identifying ordinal position using counting bears.

We also read a couple of fun math books:

Math for All Seasons written by Greg Tan (this was a fun counting book)

Ten Naughty Little Monkeys written by Suzanne Williams

Go for THE CODE

 This week Jenni reviewed the letter Ww and the sound /w/. She also practiced writing Ww - one of her favorite letters to write just because she can say "down, up, down, up." It's the little things :)

Reading

We are using The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading for phonics instruction and Jenni is reading Bob Books: Set 1 for Beginning Readers. Jenni is really enjoying these books. She is so excited when she finishes a book by herself, and sweet Joshua just smiles and claps for her. One time he even gave her two thumbs up - such an encourager :)

Science
Weather Art from Mudpies to Magnets

Winter

Jenni painted a snowman and falling snow using white paint and a cotton ball.

Jenni originally wanted to paint a "nice snow monster" with pink paint but I encouraged her to paint something more realistic :)

Spring

Jenni painted a rainbow using her entire hand dipped in paint :)

Summer

Jenni painted a "summer house" complete with larger-than-life flowers and a pink roof :) Her painting originally had windows on the house but she decided to paint them "shut" because it was a "sunny day" :)

Fall

When Jenni thinks of fall, she thinks of leaves changing colors and then falling off. So J painted a large tree with leaves changing colors and falling off :)

J and I watched YouTube videos showing the changing seasons. As the videos played, J created her own pictures of the seasons from what she saw and heard.

Geography

 We are using Evan-Moore's Beginning Geography, Grades K-2 book to learn map skills, landforms and bodies of water, and continents and oceans. This week Jenni learned about maps. A map is a drawing of a place from above. A map shows where things are.

The Big Green Pocketbook (Before Five in a Row)

This week we rowed The Big Green Pocketbook by Candice Ransom. We read the story several times and worked on the lapbook activities, found here and here.

Jenni went through our B4FIAR animal classification cards reviewing animal names and facts. We added two new animal cards from this story.

 J completed the lollipop pattern and then read the pattern (AAB).

Number Identification - J counted the lollipops on each card and matched them to the number card.

Identifying ordinal numbers up to seventh.

 Story Sequencing - Jenni put the cards in order based on the story.

Joshua

I think the favorite thing about November's sensory tub is the feathers :)