The Connett Connection

 We had a fun and full week this week!  We did a lot of fun activities and crafts! We had some acorns left over from last week so we painted with them!  We simply dropped pain on the paper and rolled the acorns around! To accompany our acorn craft, we did this guided writing activity with acorns.  My daughter can write sentences on her own with this activity! We have been learning about the woodlands, and about deciduous and coniferous trees.  I made this clip card activity to test my daughter's knowledge of the two types of trees! To accompany our forest unit we have been working on, we made these cute owls!  Simply pull cotton balls apart and stuff them inside the pin cone.  No glue needed!  You only have to glue the eyes and beak. We did this fun Christmas tree craft as well this week.  It was a game and a craft!  My daughter would draw a card and it told her how many of each shape to put on her tree!...

We did a mini lesson on acorns.  I never thought it would be so hard to find acorns for us to use!  No one in our neighborhood has an oak tree.. I mean really?  Two hundred houses and no oak tree!  We finally found some at our chick-fil-a, at a home we stopped at for a yard sale and in the yard of a friend! I made these acorn measurement task cards to introduce my daughter to weight and how to use her new beam balance! We first worked with the cards that had us figure out which objects weight more, a set number of acorns or a set number of other objects.  I made sure that each card had objects we could easily find around our home, like pennies, buttons, blocks, marbles, etc.  We next figured out which of the objects weighed less. We then used task cards that had us figure out how many acorns would equal the weight of the given object(s).  The above picture shows that 3 acorns weighed the same as the one block we placed in the balance! ...

There are so many things you can do with fall!  This post will focus mainly around activities with fall leaves and acorns! To start off our fall theme, I had my daughter complete a mystery picture puzzle .  She loved putting the puzzle together to learn what we were going to study!  This mystery puzzle made a fall leaf ! The next day, we went on a leaf hunt!  My daughter had a blast finding and picking up all the different colored leaves!  We did a ton of projects with these leaves, like sorting by color, leaf prints, leaf rubbings and even had an unexpected surprise in our leaf bag when we got home!  I wrote about the activities we did with our leaves in more details in my post: Free Things to do with Real Leaves! I made these color and number playing cards for my daughter to practice her number words and color words.  We played War, Uno, Go Fish and matching with these cards! Of course, I game each game a fall leaf name.  W...