We have abandoned the school room for a bit because it is
just too hot! We soak up the morning time in there with brother to do our free
play but we need (the pregnant momma needs) cool air! Come on fall!
This morning we started Caps For Sale.
To be honest, I was a
little bummed that our Jesse Bear work was met with whines and I don't want
to's so this week I planned a list of activities to try that I could shuffle
around depending on our interests that day. I decided to start my weekly
reflection today because we had such an encouraging morning! First, the book
was a big hit. The only issue was the brown hats. Silas did not see them as
brown but yellow and I kinda agree but we talked about shades of color. He
didn't buy it haha.
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| What do you think...yellow or brown? |
We talked about the phrase "monkey see, monkey do"
and Silas reminded me of the man with the yellow hat saying that on Curious
George and also later about how the gorillas and monkeys were making the bad
guy mad on Baby's Day Out. I loved that he found past experiences to relate to
our discussion! We painted a tree and when it dries we will add monkeys to it. We also practiced drawing lines from monkeys to their caps.
The next thing I had planned
on us working with our pegs and peg board. He said he really wished we could do number
boards instead so we adjusted. We first worked on motor skills of dropping pegs
into a pitcher. He's pretty good so we tried to do it all different ways- eyes
closed, steps closer and back. We then picked out 3 number boards and made our
number of pegs match the number on the board but using only one hole so that
they are stacked high. He chose 1, 2, 3 and so I chose 4, 5, 6 so that it would
be more challenging. He enjoyed the challenge and wanted to go all the way to
10 and then after we checked them, he wanted to put the boards in order from
1-10.
I was so happy with his participation today and all of his own ideas. It
gives me a good push in the right direction for this week and I'm hoping for
more exciting days like today, but I know not every day will we feel so intrigued
and that's okay too.
The next day, we started with our calendar and morning
meeting. He's starting to catch on to the order of the days of the week and is
sometimes answering the right answer on yesterday was, today is, and tomorrow
will be, instead of guessing. He was still into the story, Caps For Sale. Today
while we read, we had our big stack of caps next to us for a game. On his own,
Silas decided to act out the story as went along, putting on and taking off the
caps, and waving his hands and stomping his feet. Ezra came to join in the fun
and stole a cap just like the monkeys.
We then finished our finger painting
from the day before and also practiced making patterns with paper caps on a
funny Silas. We played a cap stacking game and took turns stacking as many hats
on our heads as we could. We found we had to be still and practice balance to
get more hats on.
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| Ezra working on sand writing, well, sand play :) |
On Thursday, we decorated our house for fall and talked
about seasons. We talked about how fall can also be called autumn and since
Ruby will be born in the fall and it's one of our favorite seasons, her name
will be Ruby Autumn. We listened to an audio of Caps For Sale and followed
along in the book. I was surprised at how well he could tell when it was time
to change the page. We then worked on scissor skills and cut out 12 caps to put
in a pattern on our monkey's head.
We also used a worksheet where we practiced
reading a measuring tape and recording measurements of how tall different
stacks of caps were. We then of course had to measure ourselves to see if we
were much taller so we could ride bigger rides at Disney. This was a fun, fun
week and we even read the story into the weekend. I'm loving how our school
time connects throughout the other things we do during the week and weekend. It's
really encouraging and makes me excited to plan the next few weeks to come! I
think part of why I love doing school with Silas, is because it is our thing.
He has so many things he gets to do with brother and daddy, that they are
really good at like playing super heroes, sword fighting, sports, and even when
I try- I know it’s not the same. School, however is all our time and ideas, and
lately it’s been even when Ezra is napping so it’s even more just us time and
it is pretty special. I think he knows it too. Also, we got some more BFIAR
books in the mail from Grammy this weekend! Thanks Grammy!
Resources:
http://www.homeschoolcreations.net/2011/09/caps-for-sale-printables-before-five-in/
http://www.mfwbooks.com/products/4/Pre-K-for-4s-and-older-3s-/#Overview
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