First Grade - Week 6

 Here is what we did Fun this week for First Grade:

We introduced the Calendar Notebook from Confessions of  a Homeschooler

We started Ancient Egypt, and used Hieroglyphic stamps to make words

Then we used the stamps to make those words on clay tablets (made from corn startch clay)

For science we studied the Respiratory System, and we did some experiments that involved exercises and counting how many breathes we took afterwards in a minute.  Pandia Press Life Science I

We watched:

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Episode:  Works Out

C Read:                           We read aloud:

          

First Grade Week 5

 Here is what was fun this week for First Grade!

Little Passports - England (stay tuned for a more detailed post on this and our Europe Continent Box)

R.E.A.L. Life Science from Pandia Press - Blood

Ancient History Odyssey from Pandia Press - Weaving

Van Gogh Artist Study (a more detailed post coming soon on this too!)

Our Read Aloud                                          C Read

                           

We watched

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 Episode: Inside Ralphie (Germs)

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Weekly Workboxes–Week 4, Ears

E is for Ear / Sense of Hearing
Tot School – 36mos
*these activities were also enjoyed by my 17mos old.

Sorting Sound v/s No Sound using jingle bells, some with the inside ball removed.  I just printed these cards using MSW clip art.  Got this idea HERE

Stringing larger jingle bells on a pipe cleaner

E box

Listening to the sounds of wild animals

E do-a-dot from Confessions of a Homeschooler


The Ear Book by Dr. Seuss*

Ear Coloring Page from DLTK

Sound Matching (from Montessori at Home Book)*

Shape Matching using Shape Cards from the MPS Toddler Bundle and Apes Find Shapes book


I can hear cards from MPS Toddler Bundle

Littlest Tot - 17mos

We used the Peek-a-Blocks shape sorter, (I have had this since C was a baby), we practiced matching the shapes and stacking them.  It also plays music.  It's lots of fun!

First Grade – Life Science – Human Body – BONES

Bone nomenclature cards from MPS (part of the Montessori at Home Bundle)

Looking at Xrays with the light table (I printed this photo off of the internet onto vellum so that is was transparent).  We also looked at dental xrays that I received from my dentist office when we moved. 


Human Body puzzle

You can see our Preschool curriculum outline and our First grade curriculum choices HERE and also on my Preschool and First Grade Pinterest boards.


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Weekly Workboxes–Week 2 (My Body)

Tot School – 35mos
My Body - This weeks printed materials came from 2TeachingMommies – My Body Pack

Pre-writing

What is different?

B Box (B is for body)

Body words and magnet tiles

Counting hands clip cards, mini clothes pins and hand buttons.  For this activity I had him count the hands on the card, clip the corresponding number and then count out the same number with the hand buttons.

Gluing buttons on B

Number Order puzzle

Number Puzzle
Repeating boxes from last week – Salt Tracing Box and Color Tablets
Littlest Tot – 17mos - Mr. Potato Head

Books we read:



1st Grade – Ancient History – Cave Painting

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