Week 2 of Kindergarten

Bible Verse: For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do (Ephesians 2:10).

We rowed How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, a Five in a Row selection. We did several of the activities in the FIAR manual as well as other activities I found online and from our kindergarten curriculum. Since we have so many activities to do with apples and with our FIAR book, we will continue the row next week.

Saxon Math 1

 This week J reviewed numbers 0-9. She reviewed counting, writing, ordering and comparing numbers.

This week Jenni completed Lessons 8-10. Each morning in the Math Meeting Book (not pictured) Jenni reads the date, writes the full date (month, date, and year), graphs the weather (sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy), counts using the hundred number chart, and reviews right and left.

Apple Math

 I love J's thinking face. :)

Reviewing AB and AABB patterns

Apple Pattern Cards and Templates found here

 Learning different ways to read, write and count numbers

Three Way Apple Math found here

We haven't done a whole lot of work with even and odd numbers so this was good practice with numbers 1-10.

Even and Odd Apple Trees found here

All About Reading, Level 1

Word Flippers

 Fluency practice

 This week Jenni completed Lessons 6-8. We reviewed all the consonant letter sounds, the short vowel sound for a, i and o, sight words the, a, and of, and reviewed words learned previous lessons. Jenni read different words, phrases and sentences, and completed the activity sheets and games. Also this week Jenni read two new stories from our AAR Level 1, Volume 1 book. We continue to love the All About Reading program!

Explode the Code, Book 2

 Lesson 2: Initial consonant blends sk, sl, pl

Daily Science

 Big Idea 1, Week 2: Do monkeys really eat bananas?

Jenni learned that living things eat food to get energy and animals eat food that is easy to get.

Beginning Geography

Jenni used the compass rose to answer the questions

 Jenni learning about map symbols

  Drawing map symbols - a book for a library, water for a lake, a swing for a park, a sideways bicycle for a bike path.

 Jenni learned what map symbols and a map key are and the purpose for each. 

How to Read and Follow a Recipe

Dutch Apple Pie

 Dutch Apple Pie Recipe found here

(This is still our favorite apple pie recipe, though.)

Vanilla Ice Cream

 Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe found here

Week 35 of Pre-K

Bible Verse: So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it... And there was evening, and there was morning - the fifth day (Genesis 1:21, 23)

The Story About Ping (Five in a Row)
Social Studies: Geography - China

 Coloring the flag of China
 

Coloring a picture of a little boy watching boats sail on the Yangtze River

 The Story About Ping takes place along the banks of China's Yangtze river. Longer than any other river in the world except the Nile and the Amazon, the Yangtze is nearly four thousand miles long.

Writing

Jenni determined the first sound in each word and then wrote the letter.

Printable found here

Rhyming Word Match

Printable found here

Art: Duck Paper Plate Craft

 Tutorial found here

Math: Counting Skills

Jenni counted Ping's family including his mother, father, two sisters, three brothers, eleven aunts, seven uncles and forty-two cousins, making sure to not leave out Ping.

 Jenni did a few different addition problems using her counting bears as ducks. She counted how many ducks were in Ping's family, how many of his family were marching up over the bridge (mother, father and aunts), and how many of his family were left in the water (uncles and cousins).

Math: Tangrams

 Duck

 Boat

Swan

I found the tangram templates here but the templates were not sized properly so Jenni put the tangrams together on the table (rather than on top of the outline).

Science: Animal Kingdom

 In The Story About Ping Jenni was introduced to the animal kingdom by learning about ducks.

Duck Classification printable found here

Science: Buoyancy

Jenni making her predictions of which items she thought would sink or float

In the story, a little boy was swimming with a barrel attached to his back. Both the wood and the air inside the barrel helped the boy float, much like a life jacket helps Jenni in the pool. Jenni learned that both air and wood are lighter and less dense than water. We found a few things that could sink or float in a tub of water. Jenni enjoyed making predictions and then testing to see if she was right.

Printable found here

Food: Lemonade and Brownies

We drank lemonade for the yellow colored river and made brownies and worms for the mud on the banks and the worms in the mud. We had to get creative. :)

Other Math Activities

 Dominoes - identifying and matching equivalent sets, identifying doubles

 Copying geoboard designs

 Hundreds chart - counting by 1's and 10's to 100

Measuring length using nonstandard units

Using the balance to compare weight

 Ordinal position - 1st - 5th

 Counting by 5's to 50

 Jenni writing the date