Homeschool Wrap-Up (11.28 – 12.2)

Sunday, 4 December 2011

Sharing pictures of what we did last week (aside from reading books). We only worked a few activities as to most days, he prefers playing alone... pretending to be Mister Maker.

LANGUAGE

We practiced reading of word families for ‘ot’ and ‘ow’
Identifying beginning and end letters for our CVC words. This is still part of our Pink Series unit. I was hoping to wrap this up by the end of 2011 but by the way I I see it, he still has difficulty identifying ending letters. We will be doing this activity a lot so he can practice learning ending sounds.

SCIENCE

We sort his toys whether they are magnetic or not. Oh he loved this activity!

Then we did the 3-part card for Turtle I bought this from Montessori Print Shop. Supposedly, this is for our Pond Unit but since I didn’t have much resources to go along with the theme, I just whipped a few turtle-related activities.

Learned about the Life Cycle of a Turtle

MATH

Turtle sizing activity.

Turtle jumping game using number cards. Here I would tell him whether to jump by 2’s or 3’s or at times, I would just command him to jump to a certain number. Great way to learn numbers, counting and to have fun using motor skills.

I don’t know the name of this game but this is certainly a favorite during parties and get together in the Philippines. Here, I placed the same Turtle number cards on the floor, then have my son followed my instructions. Something like: place your right foot on 4, then have your left foot on top of number 8, place your right hand on 10 etc etc. When the game was over, this is how he end up on the floor.