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Saturday, January 12, 2013

First Grade (Week 18)

Here is what we did FUN this week in First Grade

3 part cards of the Cnidaria Phylum from Montessori Print Ship

Finding a nice sunny spot to do his spelling

Parts of a Jellyfish from Montessori Print Shop

Jellyfish Craft - we used some Christmas clearance (tinsel and garland) with a paper plate.

Life Cycle of a Jellyfish 3 part cards - Montessori Print Shop

Dying cloths with blackberries.

Making a model of a Amphora with paper-mache

Both activities from Ancient Israelites and Their Neighbors: An Activity Guide, a text used with History Odyssey-Ancients I by Pandia Press.

We watched:

Episode: Takes a Dive

C read:

I was excited to get him to read a real chapter book, his reading level is high enough (about a 3rd-4th grade level) but the amount of words has always been intimidating to him. He did very well and enjoyed it!

We are reading:

Actually Q (DH) has been reading this to them at bedtime, I couldn't find any good books to go with our theme this week. This is the 3rd in the series of Ralph books they have read.

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Preschool Wrap-up (week 18)

We had a fairly short week due to field trip and co-op, and a shortened version of our 'regular' work as we work are working on a couple different reviews. But it was still a fun week!

Z and little c looking at books while I work with C

one-to-one correspondence

cutting practice

They had so much fun dancing around with "J says juh"

Playdough mat

Counting

You can find what was in our workboxes at the begininng of the week, as well as links to the printables shown by visiting our Weekly Workbox post for week 18.

You can follow our outline schedule which is posted HERE

I'll be linking up to Tot School and several other blog hops (see my right sidebar)

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