O is for Octopus

We're on a roll, George is starting to complete each letter before I have the next ready for him. 

Yesterday we completed letter O.  George was so keen to finish everything when most days I have to push him to do anything.  It was a really nice change.

Handwriting without tears building letter O with wooden pieces.

Magnetic board, using the magnetic pieces. 

Drawing letter O free hand on the magnetic board.

 

Wet dry try.

 

Play dough letter O

Handwriting without tears work book - colouring in the otters water.

Tracing the letter O

 

Colouring in the otter and water.

 

Punching holes in the Octopus.

Lacing through the holes he punched in the Octopus.

Size sorting.

Puzzle.

Counting, I placed the number on the card and George counted out the small Octopuses to match the number.

Cutting practice.

Next up letter Q

Weekly wrap up

1. Blue Ninjago ninja - face painting at a birthday party.
2. George has just started colouring in, usually he complains and just doesn't want to do it.  Something has clicked and he will do colouring in.  This picture is his first one he has ever done.   It is also letter C from his Handwriting without tears book. 
3. It's time to start planting seeds, we planted herbs, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, lettuce, zuchinni, peas, snow peas, and spinach.  I still want to do sunflowers and beans.  George and Grace loved helping and I had a lot of dirt to clean up from the table.  They also over watered them, but nothing that a few hours in the sun didn't fix. 
4. Grace keeps asking for her own school work, so I printed off some pages from 1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1 Animal ABC for her.  I have it cut and ready to go, she glues on the animals and then decorates the letter with what ever I get out for her.  This time it was stickers and felt pens. 
5. I had a go at making a meal planner/menu board.  This is with a old photo frame.  I wasn't sure if i wanted to make it as a black board or a white board so i decided to do a white board first and see if I like it.  I glued coloured paper of the wooden back of the photo frame and then I write on the glass with write board markers which wipe off with a cloth or paper towel. 
6. We set up the sand pit, Grace didn't waste time and was in it as soon as Daddy put in the last of the sand. 
7. First mow of the lawns at the new house. 
8. These balls all have sight words of letters of the alphabet written on them.  George and Grace would pull one out for George to read out loud. 
9. We completed letter C.
10. Reading eggs.

C is for Caterpillar

Here are some photos from letter C which we completed last week. 

Patterns

Size sorting

Colouring in a car.  This is a big deal as George HATES colouring in and with a lot of cheering from myself he even completed his whole picture.  

Here's the completed picture.

Writing the letter C with the HWOT magnetic board.

Here's the letter C George wrote on the blackboard. 

And now we're up to date, next week we do letter O.

U is for Umbrella

After completing letter H, we completed letter T then letter I but I didn't take any photos. 

Here is some of the photos from letter U

 

Counting the rain drops on the umbrella cards then finding the number card to match

Patterns

writing the letter U on the HWOT magnetic board

Play dough letter U

H is for Hippopotamus

We completed letter H early in July and here are the photos of some of the activities we completed. 

Colour matching

Counting

Pattern building - George can do this but doesn't have the confidence in himself to complete this without a lot of encouragement 

Writing the letter H

 

More writing

Grace had to join in so I got the water colours out for her to explore. 

E is for Elephant

We completed letter E in the beginning of June but I didn't post about it.  I did take photos (on my phone) so here are some of the activities George did. 

Graphing (George is only allowed to eat the marshmallows if he gets it all correct)

Upper and lower case sorting

Patterns

Puzzle - these puzzles are to simple for George but just right for Grace so I won't be making them any harder 

Size sorting

 

Here's Grace having a go with the puzzle

George pokes holes in the letter with a drawing pin.  This is a great fine motor skill.

Usually I cut these into colour puzzles but as George is mad on Lego I got him to find pieces of Lego the same colour.  Yes there is a yellow piece.

I purposly put these pieces out of order and then got George to place the same amount of Lego pieces as the number on the card. 

Word builders in upper and lower case

George also learnt how to write E using the handwriting without tears method.