This week we're doing letter D, and I found some (I'm trying not to use the word "cute" so much!) helpful ABC pages. It's set up so that you can print it and make your own "abc" book. I didn't start doing this at the beginning, but we're not so far in that I can't start this week. I think my son would like to see his progress. We did the "D" page today and I wasn't sure if he was able to do the letter tracing. I found that he was interested in trying it, so for me it's worth printing out the pages. This blog post from "123 Homeschool 4 Me" has the links to the sheets. There are uppercase and lowercase options. We might do both, but for now I'm focusing on the uppercase.
Some other ideas:
*D is for donuts...mmmm the possibilities! We have a donut maker and we love making homemade donuts! Here is a post I did about our homemade donuts...including the recipe we used : ).
*I read "Little Dog, Big Dog" by PD Eastman to the kids. They enjoyed it.
*We also read "Danny the Dinosaur" and colored a dinosaur picture.
*One of the co-teachers printed out a D picture that had dots on it, and the kids used bingo markers to make dots on their paper....great idea.
*The kids had a play time with plastic dinosaur and dog figures. I'm sure you could find some of these at a discount store.
*This blog has some good ideas for some letter D crafts.
And isn't this a cute idea?! You make individual boxes, labeled with a letter of the alphabet, and as the year goes on you put little things you find in the box that is the beginning letter of that object. (picture and idea from parents.com)
On to the memory work!
Geography: I'm planning to print the geography cards that I posted about last week. I really like these!
*This Global River Cruise site has almost all of the rivers on the map and when you click on the river it shows a picture of it in real life and a description of what you see while traveling on the river. Kinda neat!
*Here's another map from a cruise line. Hey...you never know what can help you out!
*My kids love little videos like this:
*We didn't do a whole lot with the European waters last week, but I thought this was a cute video to try for review.
History: Magna Carta
A short, informative video:
^ This video is AWESOME! Interesting and helpful. A little longer than the first one and probably geared towards upper elementary to high school students, but I thought it was very good. Thanks, Mr. Zoller!
*Magna Carta for kids background info.
It's getting late...so I'm moving on! : )
Science: The Natural Cycles...water, carbon and oxygen, and nitrogen
I'm finding several activities and experiments that look great, so I'm probably just going to post several links here with some brief descriptions...
*Cloud in a Jar (water cycle) activity...this link is to Teachers Pay Teachers, but it's a free download
< Carbon Cycle
And again : )
*Natural Cycles song--kind of wordy, but informative
*Nitrogen Cycle video--more like something my kids would get
*Nitrogen Cycle image
*Water Cycle worksheet...looks good!
*Water Cycle video from Nasa
*Weather Study packet (includes water cycle assessment page)--$4
*Teaching the water cycle...looks like a good activity
*Water Cycle Maze printable
*Carbon Cycle video
*Carbon Cycle lesson
An experiment that looks good...I just couldn't find a link....
*Water cycle wheel...I like this! Here is where the printout is.
*Last, but not least, our favorite...Magic Schoolbus "Wet All Over"
(That's A LOT of stuff!!)
Ok, folks...that's all I can handle for tonight! : )
Later this week...I'm reviewing and giving away a copy of the children's book, "Rufus and Ryan Go to Church!" Both of my older kids enjoyed reading and listening to the story. And like I said, I'm giving away A FREE COPY! : ) Stop by later!
God bless~
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