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...

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...

Another week is done!  We had a lot of fun this week.  After having a day off on Monday due to Irma, we kicked our school days back up on Tuesday.  My daughter did NOT want to have school.  After four days off, who can blame her.  This is the reason we do year round school.  It keeps her in a routine and that keeps her from becoming upset when things have to change! We started our week off by going on a leaf hunt.  We started our fall themed activities last week and so this week we focused specifically on fall leaves. These pictures show my daughter picking up a leaf she found and the other is a close up of the collection of leaves and sticks we ended up with at the end of our walk!                                  As we were going through our pile of leaves and sorting them by ...

We are going on a leaf hunt!  We're going to find some colorful ones!  That is what we did today.  We went on a walk and found a bag full of colorful leaves.  This post will feature some great, free activities to do with leaves you find outside! The first thing we did is sort our leaves by color.  I simply took a large sheet of paper and drew the different color circles on it and let my kinder sort the leaves into the appropriate spots.  You can also graph the different colors to see which one you have the most or least of.  You can also have students choose a favorite color leaf and make a classroom graph. Next, we chose a few nicely textured leaves that laid flat and made leaf rubbings! I have never done rubbings with my kids before and my daughter was amazed that she just rubbed a crayon on the paper and the leaf came through.  She had to pick and try out several different leaves! Another art project we did was leaf prints....

Week four is coming to a close.  Yes, I know it is only Thursday, but as we sit here, Hurricane Irma is coming closer and closer to us.  We leave in the morning for a safer location and I have no idea when we will be back!  It all depends on her ever changing track and where in her "cone of uncertainty" she will go.  We have had only two days of school this week due to all of the hurricane prep and doctors appointments (well checks!  No sicknesses!) Due to the limited time I have, I will only be highlighting three activities from this week.  The first being a 100s chart mystery picture ! I created a little twist on the normal color the picture type mystery pictures and made a 100s chart mystery picture puzzle.  I made the color me worksheet too, but my daughter wanted to do the puzzle.  Since she had never done a mystery picture puzzle, I let her use the answer key so she would know how to arrange the numbers.  We are just learning n...