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

Nursery Rhyme Stuff

Great Nursery Rhyme stuff especially sequencing cards. Check it out here.

Book Recomendations

These are some of the books I have been reading, enjoying and using for mommy schooling it.

The Well Trained Mind - a homeschooling classical approach to education

Math Experiences for Young Learners - pk-k math activities

Before Five in a Row - using literature to play and teach young children, also has a section of ideas for things to do with 2 - 4 year olds

The Complete Daily Curriculum For Early Childhood - has great theme studies and ideas for activities based on multiple intelligences and learning styles

Story S-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-r-s for Infant, Toddlers, and Twos - activities to do with little ones based on books that you read to them.

Books that I am spying:
Slow and Steady Get Me Ready
Words Their Way

Ready at Five

Ready at Five has some fun activity cards that are relatively easy to do and mostly use things around the house already. They cover language, physical, math, science, social studies, and art.

Awesome Lapbook Site!

This an awesome sight for literature based lapbooks. It fits really well with the Before Five in A Row curriculum I have for Angel Girl but it also has great stuff for non B4FIAR.