The Connett Connection

So, this week was the first week since we started school where we did our lessons everyday! We continued our fall theme with these tissue paper leaves.  The leaf templates we used can be found in this Fall Themed Packet . We finally mastered beginning sounds and have moved on to ending sounds.  I found this fun set of ending sound games for free from This Reading Mama ! When she sees me pull one of these games out, she says, "Mom!  I want to do that first!" First off please ignore my feet... I forgot to crop this picture and I just don't have time to do that right at the moment!  We have been learning about being friends.  I found this cute sorting activity for free, but I could not relocate it to give you the link and the creator did not place her information anywhere on the product! On Wednesday, we had a field trip to Chick-fil-A with our MOPS group where we saw how they made lemonade.  My two children were fortunate enough to help...

Looking for activities to go along with teaching the letter A?  Look below to see the activities we have done!   When introducing the letter A, I like to give the kids a large outline of the letter to do with what they want to, just so they can see the letter and get used to how it looks.  My two year old decided he wanted to color with markers and wanted to put some apple stickers on it as well!   This is a fun little activity I saw on one of my preschool Facebook groups.  Get a box and fill it with things that start with the letter you are working on!  Here is our letter A box: apple slice, alligator, A magnet, airplanes, cards from our letter A train and Apple Jack!  As we find more A things we will add them to our box!   [When my son started the alphabet, we just collected items.  That is the picture to the right.] We sorting capital and lowercase letter As with these sorting mats.   We looked through ma...

Well, another slow week on the Kindergarten front.  My husband said it seemed like we don't "do" school more often than we do.  Some weeks it does seem like it!  Monday we were traveling, Wednesday I had a meeting and Friday her cousin came to town, so we really only had two formal school days this week.  In our defense, when we have "no school days" we still read and do art and simple things like that, just not any of our curriculum.  It is why I like homeschooling so much!  It is so flexible! We continued learning about resources this week, and focused on natural and man made resources .  We did this little sort to learn about the difference between the two. We continued learning about our family and this week focused on where we live.  I had my daughter draw our house.  Apparently her bedroom is a very important place to her as she drew the bunk beds that she and her little brother share and her night stand. We also expa...