50th Day of School

We cruised through the 50 first days of school and celebrated with a mini-unit!

50th Day Math Book

Rockin' Around the Records

Delicious Doubles

Fifties ABC Order

 We celebrated our 50th day a little late but had a fun day of it. We bought the mini-unit from Teachers Pay Teachers and you can find it here.

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