What We Have Been Reading

The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse by Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes by Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse by Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Mr. Tod by Beatrix Potter
(we are trying to read all of Beatrix Potter's books)

K is for Kissing a Cool Kangaroo by Giles Andreae - we looked at each page and tried to find things that started with the letter on the page

The Red Hen by Judith Bauer Stamper
The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizz) by Philemon Sturges - we talked about helping and being happy when we helped, then we made some muffins

Christmas Day 1

I am trying to do a Christmas and an activity. 

Today we read Mooseltoe.

Then we made our Christmas cards using stickers, crayons, markers, and construction paper.  Basically I let Angel Girl do what ever she wanted for each card.

What We Read This Last Couple Weeks

Old Hat New Hat by Stan and Jan Berenstain - letter H
Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni - letter I

Yummy by Lucy Cousins - yes this book again lol we read The 3 Billy Goats Gruff and did activities like acting it out, and making goat puppets.

Halloween books just for fun
Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
Spooky Hour by Tony Mitton
Who Said Boo? by Nancy White Carlstrom
Fright Night Flight by Laura Krauss Melmed
Zoom Broom by Margie Palatinin
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams - personal fav!!! Read it to a group of Angel Girls friends and had them do the motions.  Totally fun.

What We Read This Week and The Week Before

Yellow Ball by Molly Bang - doing more activities from Before Five in a Row

You Touch With Your Fingers by Melvin and Gilda Berger
Touch! Touch! by Riki Levinson
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins - we used these books to learn about the sense of touch.  We talked a lot about touching and then touched a lot different types of textures and tried to describe them.

Tumble Bumble by Felicia Bond - With this book we named the animal on each page, then I had Angel Girl finish the rhyme when it was an animal. 

Anno's Counting Book by Anno - LOVE this book it has so much potential for math activities.  For this reading we just counted the houses on each page and some of the other fun things.  Angel Girl started to show a bit of an understanding of 1 to 1 matching, not consistent but she was starting.  I would have her hop on my finger to practice 1 to 1 and then she would do it independently on the same page.

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown - lead in to the letter G activities
The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss - lead in to letter F activities

For fun we have a stack of Halloween books that Angel Girl will pick a book from to read.  Here are the ones we have read so far.
Boo by Robert Munsch
Clifford's First Halloween by Norman Bridwell
The Hallo-wiener by Dav Pilkey
One Spooky Night by Laura Leuck
The Best Halloween Hunt Ever by John Speirs
Skeleton Hiccups by Margery Cuyler

Math Fun

So I got a copy of Miquion Math which I think is AWESOME.  Angel Girl is not quite ready to do any of the activities but I am starting to do some things to someday prepare her for it.  So this week we did Free Play with Cuisanaire Rods.

Basically she was given the rods to do what ever she wanted to.

So she made a house.  It was fun to watch how carefully she added rods.

When she was done I suggested making a train and modeled how to do it.

She created a train and had people riding it (the upright rods).
The goal of Free Play is to let her experience the rods and make casual observations.  Some of the things she did today was name the colors of the rods..."Mama I need the orange one" and compare orientation, in her train some are laying down and others are standing up. 
The goal is to do things with the C-rods every week and observe what she is noticing.

What We Read This Week

The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper - to teach letter E

Yummy by Lucy Cousins - this is one of my new favorite books!
The Three Little Pigs by Margot Zemach - We read it and then did activities such as making a house of foam. We then huffed and puffed and tried to blow our house down.

1,2,3 to the Zoo by Eric Carle - We are making a number book so we read this book and then entered the number 1 to our book.  We counted out 1 bear and 1 sticker.

Yellow Ball by Molly Bang - to use with Before Five In A Row

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