Paperclips

Sometimes the most simple household

items make the best school work.

O put paper clips in the corresponding

colors.

I also included the color words

that she placed the paperclip on top of.

And then I taught her how to hook them together.

Every person who has worked in an office

is cringing at the thought of this.

At least I am.  I hated when people did this.

Excellent work for fine motor control.

Check out that concentration!

Proud girl made a row of 21 paperclips or the

whole length of the table.

Easy, free activity.

Play

She is growing up so quick!

She almost has the jump rope down.

Whew, indoors we go.  It is hot.

After a bath, and jammie time...

She clips some caribiners to a basket.

Her idea.  Not mine, but pretty clever.

More fine motor skills :)

This activity was my idea :)

We sorted colors into warm and cool colors.

She grasped the concept pretty quickly.

Onto painting.

Those are fairies.  She also made several 

houses in the woods for the fairies.

After painting, it was time for blocks.

There is a lot of playing going on around here.

By the time you read this, we will be on our way to

an exciting Memorial Day Weekend.

Happy Weekend Friends :)

School

 School this week was a potpourri of random interests O had. 

Rainbows and color wheels were a hit.

We did 2 versions of a color wheel.

We read book number 3 in the Bob books.

It was 'Dot' and O was very proud to read it

to her daddy all by herself.

We reinforced the words we read in the book

by writing them and using cut out letters to

spell them.

We used clay and made snakes to 

create the words from the book.

This was a big hit, since the clay has

been in use pretty much every day

since I bought it.

Math included graphing numbers 11-20.

We also played a game with the hundred

board.  We took turns drawing number tiles

and figuring out where they go on the blank

side of the board.  

Paper Dolls that represent Switzerland.

Learning time

Here are a few photos of what we have been doing for school work.

::  Number Lines

::  I write two numbers (ie 22 __  24)

and O fills in the blank

::   Pictures with the hundreds board

::  Money--matching, identifying, labeling

::  Hundreds board using pennies

::  Matching the word to the photo (CVC words)

::  More Matching with the Montessori 

Pink Box words

School Time

A few of the many school works we have done today.

:: Palm Sunday --learning about all of the events that lead up to the resurrection

:: Handwriting practice  --O is starting to learn the proper way to write the letters

:: Reading/Spelling 

:: Metal Insert Tracing work --I make a picture using the tracing shapes, and she has to figure out the shapes I used and recreate it

:: Scissor work 

:: Letter Matching --I write a word she has to use the letters to make the word and put the corresponding sticker on the card

:: Clock  --O has to make the clock say the time I have on the post-it

:: Word Search --O feels like a big kid because she can do word searches

:: Shape Sticks --O uses my clues to make a shape

:: Find the numbers --O covers the numbers (in the above picture, 12, 20, & 6) with the correct color of stickers.  I make sure to give her the exact number of stickers she will need so it is semi-self-correcting.