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The Letter F

Angel Buff February 15, 2014 0 Comments

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 had written "F" on a piece of construction paper in preparation for our next activity and later found her tracing my "F." I was happy to find her practicing on her own.

We used that piece of paper, gluing Feathers on it to make the letter "F."

I also found a printable that she could color and cut out pieces, which we then stapled together to make a book.

We are still using the practice pages with the dry-erase markers.

I use every opportunity to work in repetition of our letter for the week. One of the books we found to read was "My Farm Friends."

And for her Bible lesson we talked about Jesus calling his disciples to Follow Him. We colored a picture and made Footprints.

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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 and watched Sesame Street's "Letter E" clips.

We used the dry-erase board - she traced over my writing.

We did our finger painting, "E" is for Elephant.

We also made Elmo.

And colored a picture of Elmo and an Eagle.

For our Bible studies, this week we talked about prayer.

This week gave me new ideas on what I can do to change things up a bit to hopefully keep her interested. Just as she is learning things each week with her "studies," I am learning more about her and how to teach her in the future - so this has been a learning experience for the both of us.

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The Letter D

Angel Buff February 01, 2014 0 Comments

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 made dinosaur footprints.

We built "D" words using our magnet board.

And we made a duck out of the letter "D".

We colored a picture, and did some dancing.

And Daddy and Daughter had some time together painting with watercolors.

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Snow Day

Angel Buff January 28, 2014 0 Comments

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 an opportunity to slow down and just enjoy being together. A fun day for us all!

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The Letter C

Angel Buff January 25, 2014 0 Comments

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 shapes for our little bug puzzle, gluing the shapes into their proper place.

We also made a Cat mask, which turned out to look a little too much like "Grumpy Cat." LOL.

Of course as you are going through the week you are continually finding things that start with your 'Letter of the Week' and talking about it. We are still using the practice sheets inside the protective cover along with a dry-erase marker and we now have a white board that we use to practice with.

We also have changed our Bible lessons up a bit. The book we started with was not keeping her attention long enough, so we picked another one of her Bible story books and have been reading through it often and talk about the stories and I have been trying to find coloring pages that correspond to the lessons.

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The Letter B

Angel Buff January 18, 2014 0 Comments

"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 a lot of fun activities and printables. We found this connect-the-dot Bee, so that snuck in some counting also. She also colored a picture of the letter "B" and Big Bird from their site.

And we also introduced glue! Big hit! We made the letter "B" out of Buttons.

Our Bible story of the week was about Noah and his obedience to God. And also conveniently located during our "B" week was the Birthday of a family member. So far, so good. We are having lots and lots of fun together.

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Magnetic Learning

Angel Buff January 16, 2014 0 Comments

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.

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The Letter A

Angel Buff January 11, 2014 0 Comments

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' and also worked on 'A' in sign language.

I found some writing practice sheets for the letter 'A' also. I put those in a protective cover and we used a dry-erase marker to work on writing skills.

For our Bible lesson we simply started reading the "Jesus Said Bible Storybook." The first lesson was about creation. This book tells the story and then gives a memory verse. We read and/or talked about this first story daily and practiced our memory verse all week.

We did some counting activities and she also has some educational games on the computer and Kindle that she worked with as well.

I have to say that overall the first week went really well. She has been so excited about her school room and the activities. I also learned a lot this week about how to modify activities, and I know that there will be much evolution as we learn together how home schooling will work best for the two of us (and ultimately the three of us, as Daddy becomes more involved).

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