What We Read This Week

Its been a slow reading week....or maybe just a busy life week...so here is what we have read.
Go, Dog, Go by P.D. Eastman -Used to intro letter d


Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See by Bill Martin - we are doing some of the activities from Homeschool Shares
Baby Bear, Baby Bear What Do You See by Bill Martin

What We Read This Week

C is for Clown by Stan and Jan Berenstain - used this to intro letter C
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

Alphabet Adventure by Audrey Wood - after we read it we found objects that started with the letters in the alphabet just like Charley's alphabet did

The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle - while reading we made the sounds of the animals in the book and followed the spider's web around.
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids by David Kirk (extra credit book has transracial adoption in it)
We did Spider stuff like making a web with glue on paper (when it dries you can feel the glue is raised up). Walking a spider web and pretending to be a spider.

Fun Things We Have Done

We read...a lot!
Counted 1 counting bear.
Sang a Goldilocks song.
Practiced writing with our Kumon books.
Colored on large and small pieces of paper.
Made circle shapes with our bodies.
Learned how to put our dirty clothes in the hamper and make our bed.
Practiced putting the silverware away correctly.
We beaded pipe cleaners.

What We Read This Week

The Berenstain's B Book - which was used to introduce the letter b. We traced sandpaper letters, added it to our letter book, colored a b and found it with magnetic letters.

Tickle Monster by Josi Bissett - read and tickled as we went. Its a fun book with body parts...the only problem is it uses cutsie names for body parts
Look, Baby! Listen, Baby! Do, Baby! by True Kelley - great book that shows different babies their body parts, sounds and things they do with their bodies. It was perfect for our learning about body parts.

Red Truck by Kersten Hamilton - Fun book that features a red truck.
Black Dog Red House by Lizi Boyd - Fun book about colors. Used the cover to match items around the house that are red.

Weekly Book List

So my biggest focus for Angel Girl has been reading. Lots and lots of stories being read. Here are the books we have read this week:
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear by Nancy White Carlstrom
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall
Yummy by Lucy Cousins
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Jan Brett
The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall
Along with many board books.

For Goldilocks and the Three Bears we made a puppet that we used to tell the story. By the end of the week Angel Girl was asking to "read" the story and would tell me what was happening on each page. This is a valuable early literacy skill that I love see emerging. She is starting to understand story structure and remember what she heard.

For Sweet Boy we were reading:
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
We read about 10 pages at every nap and bedtime and repeated the book for a week.

It's a New Year!

Ok so a new school year for many school aged children. So I took this opportunity to start a new year with my Angel Girl (also this is my first full time mama time so we are developing our rhythm). So this week we are:

Learning Humpty Dumpty
Refreshing our known letter knowledge (working on A this week).
Reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears (and many of its renditions)
Retelling the story with puppets (and just "reading" the story).

We have also pulled out some of our Kumon books to practice tracing and coloring (just for fun).
Looked for and made circles.
Counting out 1 object.

I look forward to teaching her how to make her bed every morning and add this to her chore chart.

How have you learned this week for the new year?

3 Yr Old Learning Goals

Goals for my Angel Girl in her 3 yr old year.

Colors
Shapes
Nursery Rhymes
Lots of read alouds
Beginning retelling and sequencing
Letter Names
Lots of playing outside
Counting to 20 (she already goes to 13)
Identify numbers to 5
Lots of sensory activities
Lots of crafts
Lots of cooking
Lots of pretending