Uncharted Heritage

Some weeks go better than others, and this week was a good week.  We had a lot of fun and she was eager to learn this week.  We did our finger painting project, making a Fish out of her hand print. We colored her letter of the week, using a coloring page from Sesame Street, showing that "F" is for Flower. I...

Some weeks just go more smoothly than others. This week was not a smooth week with keeping her attention, but we still managed to get a lot done. We still did the typical activities with discussing our 'letter of the week' throughout our days and we read plenty of stories/books.  She still played games at PBS.org...

Our week, as usual, has contained plenty of reading, Bible stories, games, and letter association for this week's letter and we are still using our practice sheets for learning to write our letters of the week.  Here are some other highlights from our "D" week... We made dinosaurs out of our hand prints... and...

This is our daughter's first snow. {We don't get much snow in this part of Tennessee.} She was so excited, and of course we were excited for her. Memories being made. Lots of playing! We also made a treat for the birds, using pine cones, peanut butter and popcorn. And we got a treat too...snow cream. Yummy! Nice to have...

For "C" week we started out playing with some glue and made a Cotton "C" and some Clouds. Finger painting is a hit.  So we continued our theme and made a Caterpillar. Also we had in introduction to Cutting with her brand-new scissors.  We cut out basic shapes first.   Then we cut out...

"B" week went well.  We worked on writing, using the protective cover over the practice sheets.  She is really starting to like this activity.   We also made a Bracelet using Beads.  And of course we had to do some finger painting, so "B" is for Butterfly this week. PBS Kids.org has...

For some more learning fun we added a magnet board, made simply from a piece of metal that we spray painted.  We let our daughter pick out a color of paint and then added this board to her school room, along with some letters for a start. ...

For our first week of "formal" activities, we thought that the best place to start would be, of course, with the letter 'A'. Throughout the week we painted pictures of ants and alligators. I also printed out a capital and lowercase 'A' for her to paint by herself. We talked about things that start with the letter 'A'...