The Elliott Edition

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Thanksgiving Fun and Sensory Bin

The printables used in this post came from COAH’s Thanksgiving Preschool Pack.
Other ideas for crafts came from my Turkeys and Thanksgiving Pinterest board.
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We made this turkey from a pom pom/chenel stem pack I bought at Micheals. We added feathers, googly eyes, and a beck made out paper.

Matching Letters! Thanks aunt cindy for collecting bottle caps for us! They come in handy for many things. Smile

COUNTING …

CUTTING…

GLUEING…

SAME and DIFFERENT…

SENSORY BIN…
Here is our setup. The base was beans.

Here is the top of her workbox system. I gathered and displayed all of her Thanksgiving Fun. This always gets her excited for all the work we have for the week or weeks ahead.

This is her PILGRIM CABIN (aka Lincohn Logs). I found this $3 set in the onespot section of Target. *I always check this section for seasonal items or buy ahead for different themes that I know we will be doing.

Our books we purchased for Thanksgiving were inspired by a list of Thanksgiving books by 1plus1plus1equals1.com’s blog.

WANT TO SEE MORE THANKSGIVING FUN? Click here to see our last Thanksgiving blogpost!
Here is a fun FREE Thanksgiving Printable I made called Clothes Pin Clip Cards. We enjoyed these during our weeks leading up to Thanksgiving.

If you are a homeschooling mom/parent, check out my Ultimate Homeschooling Board on Pinterest.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Homeschool Letter Z

Z is for Zebra…

These printables are from 1plus1plus1equals1.com’s Animal ABC curriculum. Notice, we are on uppercase Z this week! This means we will begin lowercase letter ‘a’ in January (Still using her Animal ABC’s curriculum)
This week we also used:

Letter Z Work...

SIGHT WORDS....

For our sight word practice this week I used left over pieces of paper from a homemade mobile that hangs over my son’s crib. I wrote sight words to match on both green and white pieces. Still working on the words for mastery: I, is, a, the, and, see

Here is a close up pic of what she did.

I love testing her knowledge this way. Its fun for her, easy for me, and easy clean-up.

All About Reading...

Finishing up our uppercase letters this week in All About Reading Prelevel. We have really loved this curriculum for many reasons. The games we play are so developmentally appropriate and I just think they are great for language.

This is the snail game. In this game, the person wearing the snail necklace we decorated gets to draw a card and read it slowly like a snail. How fun! It made for great pics too.

In the above picture she is beginning the word ‘ant.’ In the picture below she is finishing the word ‘ant.’

This picture was “TTTTTUUUURRRTTTLLLEEE.”

The other player (Me) had to guess the word. It was a pretty hilarious time with my 3 year old. And, she continued to play the game throughout the day…eating lunch…using the bathroom…playing with brother. This part got kind of annoying!

TURKEYS and THANKSGIVING...

We found this fun Turkey activity on Pinterest. Check out our Turkeys and Thanksgiving Pinterest Board.

In the next few pics we used a printable pack from COAH. Its Called Thanksgiving Preschool

Dot Painting a “T” for Turkey!

Matching Cards in this “Thanksgiving Building” page.

Matching color cards with Pumpkin Pies.

Tracing..

Size Sequencing

I love poke pages because its such a great fine motor activity.

Check out our Turkeys and Thanksgiving Pinterest Board for lots of seasonal activities for this time of year or same some for next year. There is always next year!

Follow Crystal @'s board Turkeys and Thanksgiving on Pinterest.

Bible Focus Activity....

HANNAH's PRAYER

ABC Jesus Loves Me is a FREE online Curriculum that we have used with Jordyn since she was 2 years old. We will continue to use it until she turns 4. At that point, we will re-evaluate and decide whether we will continue the activities or if we will focus on a different bible curriculum. I really like to pull from many different curriculums, this is just how my brain works.

I called her to the table and when she saw everything she said "cooool," as you can see in the picture below.