Our week: April 16th to 20th

As the weather gets nicer we're spending less time indoors and less time doing "school". This is fine by me! I am so ready for more outside time!

Our shelves

Magnifying glass

After exploring these items I intended for us to go

outside and gather some leaves and sticks or something

for the next time. But she took off with the magnifying

glass and has been playing with it all over the house. :)

Zootles magazine

I decided to put this out instead of in our science

drawer. We often forget it's there when it's tucked

away. 

Rhyming puzzles

Kumon activities

The same ones out as last week. Since she hasn't been

picking it lately I asked if she wanted them back out

or not, but she always says yes.

Patterns

For copying and continuing patterns. We can of

course dump them out and do new ones, but I like

having it ready to go with the first set.

Lacing

This week she was more particular about lacing it

the same way all the way around. Often she does 

some in standard stitch style and sometimes loops

it around the side to come through the same direction

as she did the hole before. This time she noticed how

different it looked than mine, done all the same way.

So she took out her last few and redid it all the same.

Window clings

She really just loves doing these. Not sure how

educational it is, but it's fun so it's okay!

Art book

This week we did tracing objects. She liked

tracing her hand the most. 

Water color painting

And of course some painting.

I actually didn't take a lot of school-time pictures this week. The camera died early in the week and I procrastinated charging it. I have several more on my phone, but they're not very good and a pain to get on to my computer. 

This girl LOVES mazes!

She wanted to do more colored water art on paper

towels. This time she asked me to cut out some

Easter eggs for her to color. I also did some hearts.

This way was pretty fun! A new way to color 

Easter eggs! She also turned a few of them into

"projects". Mostly this meant cutting them up or

folding and taping them.

Just for fun!

Meeting a brand new baby cousin!

Our week from April 9th to 13th

This may sound really off for a homeschooling blog, but my goal this last week was NO SCHOOL. Well, really my goal was to not be in the house, but that meant not spending time in the school room, either. Between sickness, pregnancy issues, and weather, we've been stuck in the house for the majority of the last 6 months. The weather was nice (most of the week) and I had just had enough of inside. So I didn't put new activities on her shelves or prepare any of our core work. Had she really, really wanted to do school, I would have found something for us to do. I kept us pretty busy, but the couple times she did ask, I gave her an option between school and something else fun and she went with the other.

So we spent this week playing in the driveway with bubbles and sidewalk chalk, taking walks/riding her trike, a lot of time at parks, playdates, time with nana, picnics, and the children's museum. All things we do all the time anyway, but this week we did ONLY those things and packed them in!

Some pictures.

Feeding the ducks

Painting at a pottery place

This was a playdate with a friend

 

Proud of her puppy! She was very upset, though,

that we didn't get to bring it home with us that day.

They glaze and fire it then you pick it up when

it's finished.

Making a windsock at the museum

Our week in review from April 2nd to 6th

Our shelves

Sand tray

She loved writing in the sand tray this time.

She always likes this activity, but it worked

much better in this box tray instead of the

shallow tray I usually use. She went and got

more letters from the drawer so she could keep

playing in it. 

Egg puzzle

She absolutely loved this one! It was definitely a

favorite for the week. We did it a dozen times at

least. It's harder than it looks because each notch

is a different width, so you have to turn each level

until you find where it fits.

Ball toss math

There's also a 2 bucket you can't see in the pic. We

set the little buckets up on the other end of our table

and tossed the pom poms into them. The 1 closest to

us and the 3 furthest away. Then we added up our

points. She loved this game. After the first few rounds

we just tossed and didn't do the adding.

Lace & trace

Lacing cards is always a favorite.

Number line

The number line folds out to go to 9. She puts one

cup above each number then puts the corresponding

number of beads in each cup. She always loves

this one. I like that it is self-correcting, so even if I

see her make a mistake, I don't call it out, I wait for

her to discover it herself.

Patterns

Copying patters. She was supposed to make an

identical row beneath this one then I was going to

start a simple pattern and have her finish it. But she

ended up stealing the pom poms from this activity to

give us more for the math toss game and they never

made their way back!

Kumon Activities

She didn't actually do these this week. Surprising

as the cutting one at least is usually one of the first

things she goes for.

Stained glass painting

She loved doing these. Painting is one of

her favorite things to do.

Easter cards

Materials so she could put some stickers

on foam cards. She likes making cards for

people this way.

In action

Glue and glitter. She asks to do this at least a couple

times a week.

This is an activity from a Spectrum Early Years

workbook, Learn with Me Ready to Read. She

really likes it so I might get another from the

series.

These were actually not taken all on the same day.

She just really liked her Dora nightgown this week!

Just for fun!

All ready for dance class.

Dying eggs. This dye is from beets. We also did 

red cabbage, tumeric, and spinach.

More painting! 

"Another picture?"