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 :)