G is for Gumball

We completed letter G in one day.  George is really on a roll with his letters, at this rate we'll be finished the Letter of the Week curriculum in less than 2 months.  

We started with playdough and made the letter G.  Playdough is great as it keeps Grace happy playing next to us while I get some one on one time with George.

Letter building with wooden pieces. 

Wet dry try.  George surprised me this time and used his left hand when he normally favours his right for writing.  While he does form his letters better with his right hand I'm not going to tell him with hand to use. 

Magnetic board.

Handwriting without tears work book.

The work book once finished letter G.

Upper and lower case sorting.

 

Lacing.

 

Grace wanted a go at lacing as well.  With a little bit of help starting she did really well. 

Counting.

Size sorting.

Gumball building.

Puzzle.

Patterns.

Cutting practice.

Poking.

Do-a-Dot painting.

Cut and paste gumballs.

Colour by numbers.  This was Georges first time doing this, he did well.  I did have to change the colours to match markers we actually have. 

The letter G is now hanging on our letter tree.

Weekly wrap up

1. Grace colouring her 'school work'.
2. Some of our seeds have sprouted.
3. George helped make piklets.
4. When picking up one of my care kids from kindy we found a couple of lambs.  George wouldn't get close after someone told him they eat fingers. 
5. We got our piano tuned.
6. We made bouncy balls.
7. George wrote all the letters he knows so far on the path outside. 
8. George and I made a cardboard fire truck from a press out book I found for $3 at Kmart.
9. George completed Letter Q
10. Grace did some 'school' this time I gave her glue, paint brush and glitter.  I'm still finding glitter all over the place.
11. The week was so sunny we ate lunch outside most days.
12. Grace loved the lambs at kindy.
13. Grace helped me make scones.
14. We visited the garden center with Nanna and helped her buy some plants and soil. We got some sunflower seeds.
15. Grace had fun dressing up as a Dinosaur and roaring at everyone.
16. George did many many paintings at playgroup.
17. Graces updated letter wall.
18. Grace enjoyed the huge sandpit at playgroup.
19. George completed Letter O
20. Grace painted at playgroup.
21. George enjoyed the outdoor play equipment at playgroup..
22. Grace did some screen printing.
23. We made burger buns for dinner.

Q is for Quilt

We finished letter Q a couple of days ago, some of the photos are very out of focus sorry. 

Building letter Q out of wooden pieces. 

Writing on the magnetic board.

As it was a sunny day we used the path outside instead of the chalk board. 

Revision of all the letters we've completed so far.  The letters in blue I did to remind George what they looked like. 

Completed the handwriting without tears work book.

Poking holes with a pen through paper.

Threading a quilt.  George punched the holes in the card first. 

Cutting practice.

Puzzle.

Patterns.

Size sorting.

Matching.

Number order.  I made this harder by only giving George 5 cards.  He was confused at first but after some explaining understood what he had to do.  Once finished with these 5 I got him to add in the other 5 numbers.

Shape and colour puzzles. 

Upper and lower case sorting

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.