H is for Heart

I happen to be at the dollar store and saw the perfect foam hearts.. So that's what we did. I like stickers, especially individual stickers. I like to think it helps develop small motor skills.. Emily was making a H out of hearts (but i didn't get a final picture). I like these little crafts because I just say "here's the stickers" and they decide exactly what they are going to do with them. Helps the develop their creativity..

G is for Glitter

We made Glitter G's for the craft when we were learning the letter G. The thing I like the most, is all the crafts for the letters are done in a journal. They are ALL together, I don't have to worry about taping it all over my house.. And it's easier to review what we did the previous day. I also got foil pans to put them in.. That way they catch all the mess.. After the craft is dry, I just empty the foil pan in the garbage and that's clean up. It's great!

F is for fingerpaint

This one was a little tough for Hannah. She is a clean little girl. She loves to be clean. I provided a towel so that she was able to wipe her hands off whenever she felt she needed to. By the end she was okay with getting paint on her fingers. Emily however, loved EVER second of painting with her fingers. She painted with her fingers, with her palm, with her arm, and so on. She had so much fun getting paint all over her. Luckily in one fast run to the bathroom sink it all washed off. And we were able to do the rest of school.

D is for Donuts

We're working on cutting out as much "Junk" (as Hannah calls it, aka junk food) so we didn't use real donuts.. I had some adhesive paper.. So I cut out donuts and they thought it was so fun that I had donut stickers.. So they put the stickers in their journals and we put some Elmers glue on it and they were able to add real sprinkles. Again, it was fun and easy. Yet it made me a cool mom :-D

Finished project (almost.. the glue wasn't dry yet)

C is for Cottonballs

Did get any pictures of the girls making it. But they really thought this was an awesome craft... and it was so simple. It's a win-win craft!
Pretty much self explanatory.

B is for Bubble Art!

Today we learned the the b sound.. For our craft we made bubble art. I took some paint, added bubbles and water, and blew it through straws. Fun, yet so so easy.



Each day we also trace over our name with dry erase markers.. Hannah's getting the hang of it.. Emily is pretty much ready to move on (she knows how to spell all but baby Abby's name by memory).. But I make her keep doing it because it's good to get practice with writting the letters correctly.

A picture documentry

While I was at the store, I saw this cool kit. It's growing plants in test tubs. That way we can see the WHOLE plant. We are currently growing radishes, carrots, and onions. Our radishes are really taking off. We document it every school day (not sundays)

Weather and Calendar. We look out the window and decide weather it is sunny or cloudy/rainy. Today the sun was out a little. So we went outside to test if it was warm or cold.. As you can see, it was cold. We discuss what day of the week it is, what date, and what month. The girls were surprised when I had erased all of May and started the calendar over.


Then we use "The Ordinary Parent's guide to Teaching Reading." We just started it two days ago. We have a journal to go along with it. Each day we do the lesson in the book and then I've added the crafty side. We cut out the letters and pictures to go along with the sound and color and glue them. I think we'll also maybe do stickers on day of items that start with the letter, and other crafty stuff... We do it in a journal so that way it stays all together (and not all over my house) and we can review the previous things each day.


Today the girls decided that they wanted to paint for craft time. So we painted pictures. Tomorrow we might play with playdoh.. I haven't planned that far ahead.


We've been learning about bugs.. We have been learning all sorts of new words. Each day we add to our word board different words we've learned from the books and review what they mean.. As we are reading, I note down new words and we use those the following day.


Then we read our books. The girls really love the books that are in the book box. We got this pre-put together kit from the library (thanks for telling us about them Andrea)
As we read them, when we come acrossed one of the words we all repeat it out loud. Hannah was really getting into it today. (sorry don't know how to stop the underlining)


The girls really like to hang up their work... Our door is full. I need to figure out what to do with all these pages.. We can't just keep stacking them up.


That's what we did today. Each day is a little different. Once I get it all figured out though, it'll be more consistant. I still have to figure out when to add the math back in. And more stuff. But that's what we have so far. I add more stuff in, but it's more different stuff daily. :-D