Peek At Our Week–M is for Moon

Ugh! I knew this would happen…..I really wanted to be posting each week but I’ve already slipped behind……….we didn’t complete all of the things I had planned for “M'” week but we gave it a good shot and (mostly) had fun. Here are some of the things we did.

We worked on writing our  name……I have to say that I’m pretty impressed –It only took a week and a little bit for Channing to be able to spell and write his name by himself. I hadn’t really worked on it much with him before now (whose idea was it to give their child an 8 letter name!?)…….but he’s done soooo well! This picture shows a little name trace (write on/wipe off) card I made for him. We practice our name each day and I try to vary it so he doesn’t get bored…..I can tell though that he’ll only need a week or so more of “practice” before he’s mastered it :-)

We also used magnetic letters to make our name this week.

We stamped and wrote our sight words again this week. Channing’s doing pretty well with sight words but he had trouble with 2 words this week so I might cut down the amount I’m giving him. His favorite part of sight words is putting them together to make a sentence!

We also did a few “mouse” activities. This one I found in one of my kindergarten boxes as I was packing the other day. Channing had to count out the correct number of mice for each piece of cheese.

We then made patterns out of the “mice” colors  and did some addition and subtraction with them.

 

We completed a “Blast Off” page. I had  missing numbers under each rocket and Channing had to write in the correct missing number.

We made name rockets. The boys had to write each letter of their name on a piece of the rocket (Sully traced his).

I think they turned out cute :-)

We learned about the phases of the moon (with Oreos of course).

 

We also made a book of the phases of the moon.

Here is the craft we did to remind us of our Bible truth.

We made “craters” on the “moon” by dropping marbles into flour………..

 

Here’s how that activity ended up :-)

We played a cover up game I made for the boys called “Starry, Starry night”. It’s just a simple roll and cover game – the boys LOVED it.

 

We made a rocket out of simple shapes and measure how tall it was with unifix cubes. This activity is going in our Math Journal.

We read “Aliens Love Underpants”….see post here to grab your freebie!

We made a star counting book (which you can purchase here).

The big project of the week was to make our “Zoom to the Moon” book…….we love how it turned out! If you want to join in the fun and make your own, you can find it here.

Of course we read LOTS of book and learned many interesting facts about the moon. We used bubble wrap and jar lids to make a moon and then we wrote a sentence about something we learned. I think Channing was about to write another c after the o and that’s why his “cold” looks a little funny but he loved learning all kinds of things about the moon this week.

 

We’re also racing ahead with our Horizon Math……the beginning few lessons are pretty easy….we’ll see how he goes when things get a little challenging :-) By far his FAVORITE time is reading. We’ve only done the first lesson of AAR…we actually repeated it a few times as I don’t want to go too fast and want him to grasp the blending etc. I’m loving it as well.

 

Thanks for taking a peek at our week :-)

Aliens Love Underpants (Freebie)!

As part of our “M is for Moon” week, we read this book. My boys LOVE this book….it’s so silly and cute. It’s been a favorite since last year but since I knew it was a book that held their attention, here are some activities I came up with to go along with it.

Count the number of underpants each alien has and record it by stamping the correct number on the paper.

We also played “Build Your Rockets”. Roll a dice and use unifix cubes to build your rockets. The first person to build all of their rockets wins!

If you’re interested in these activities, you can grab them for free from my TPT store HERE.

Labor Day Weekend Sale!

Hi everyone,

I hope you’ve all had a fantastic week! I uploaded a bunch of things to my TPT store this week……and I’ve decided to have a Labor Day Weekend Sale………the sale will be on until Monday night at 6pm EST. here’s some samples  of what you can find:

Yep, my keepsake books are back……..this one is soooooo cute! We were learning m is for moon this week so I came up with this book for Channing and I to work on together…..I was so happy with the results. It will go along GREAT with any space unit you do.

Here’s a sample of what’s inside…..it’s basically a countdown book through space (all patterns are included)………the crafts are SIMPLE! You can check it out by clicking on the picture above.

A little “dictionary” to help new writers write common words :-) My class used this ALL THE TIME!!!! (it saved ME a lot of time too).

“My Sentence Book”……..easy and useful :-)

Handwriting practice pages………

Don’t forget about Grandparents Day – it’s coming up soon……….this book is a must have!

This is another cute counting book that I did with Channing this week….will also go with any space unit you’re planning.

Last but not least, don’t forget to check out the alphabet set of Silly Songs……….my kiddos LOVE them :-)

 

Happy Labor Day everyone!!!

One Day Fun Day- Spiders

At the conclusion of our “s” week, we decided to have a “One Day Fun Day”……..it’s not too hard to imagine that these two had a blast with our spider day.

Firstly we made these spider hats…….the belly on Channing’s spider opened up and had some spider facts inside.

This picture cracks me up – he’s concentrating so hard to write his spider fact :-)

Not really a “fact” (in my opinion anyway) but that’s what Channing wanted to write at the end of his fact book.

Next up we made “spiders”……..I’m not really sure why we call them that but I grew up calling them spiders and it was a treat each year in Kindergarten when we did the letter s. Just mix a scoop of ice cream with sprite….YUM!

I made these little spider cupcakes for the boys. It’s hard to see on the photo but the cupcake holders have 8 black legs. The boys added icing and 8 chocolate chips for spider eyes.

We went outside to roll paint (using marbles) to make a web………

for this craft.

This is the poem you can see on the craft….that boys thought it was hilarious :-)

We measured the spider “webs” (yarn) with flies.

We matched web letters to beginning sound spiders.

We read some books about spiders and did a creepy labeling activity.

We learned about the life cycle of a spider……..and of course made our own crafty version.

We made a “Creepy Crawly Counting” book.

We also made a “Creepy Crawly Pattern” book.

We did lots of other activities too but I just didn’t have my camera handy :-) If you’re interested in these activities, I’ve been working really hard to bundle them together but it’s not quite finished. I’m working on some more centers and the recording sheets so that it’s more kindergarten “class” friendly. It should be up in my TPT store within the next week……stay tuned for a give away when I post it.