Good Bye to Letter of the Week

Holidays are finally over and as we start to get into more of a routine for schooling it's time to say good bye to letter of the week for George.  It's just to simple for him and he needs more of a challenge right now.

Letter of the week will be back sometime this year as Grace is almost ready for it.  To be honest if Grace has her way she'll be doing everything George is, and isn't to happy about having to wait. While she is ready for some of the activities I need a bit more energy before I can devote the time needed to get the activities ready for her each week. 

Now that George is getting closer to 6 I'm aiming to be more focused this year, and try to get into a routine before baby arrives so the transition from schooling with a pregnant mum to a schooling with a new born around is as easy as possible (yeah right, I can dream right)

My goal with this blog is to keep a weekly record of George and Graces work as well as anything else that takes my fancy. 

Baby on Board

It's official, we're expecting!!!

No, we do not know the gender and we're not going to until bubs arrives. 

We're expecting to have our baby by August.

We're planning our second home water birth and can't wait.

photo credit monnibo on flickr

P is for Pumpkin

Today we completed letter P.

 

Playdough

Handwriting without tears wooden pieces

First go writing P on the magnetic board

 

Handwriting without tears book

Wet dry try

Sorting upper and lower case

Puzzle

Size sorting

Patterns

Counting - I would put a number on the board and George would have to count out and add the correct number of pumpkins to the board

Couting

Threading

Grace had to do the threading as well

Cutting

Poking

D is for Dinosaur

Today we completed Letter D

Wooden pieces

 

Playdough

First go writing on the magnetic board

Handwriting without tears book

Colouring in

Do-a-dot Painting 

Cutting practise

Puzzle

Using shapes to make a dinosaur

Size sorting

Puzzle

  
Upper and lower case sorting

Heads and tails puzzle

More shapes making a dinosaur

Threading

Counting - I didn't give George all the numbers to make it a little harder for him

Angry Birds

This week we had a go at one of the themed kindergarten packs from 1plus1plus1equals1
I choose Angry Birds as George loves the game.


George using the Do-a-dot markers on rythming words

George painted the words he could read

cutting, sorting and gluing pigs and birds

George had to read the colour before painting.

Fractions

Different fractions were painted different colours

George had to say which number was behind the angry bird

Greater than and less than, George did better at this than I thought he would

George had to read these sentences and put the correct bird or pig at the end. 

Couting, George hasn't learnt how to write numbers yet so he told me which number was missing and I wrote it for him

Reading

And finally once everything was finished he got to open this new angry bird game I've had hiding away.

George loved this and played it for most of the afternoon with my after school care kids.