Weekly Wrap Up

We had another busy but fun week!

We have circle time each day and on this particular day Anthony decided he wanted to be the teacher.  So, he led us through circle time.

Since it’s summer I am really trying to keep things fun, so we had a Scooby Doo themed week since the boys both love Scooby Doo.  We read lots of Scooby Doo books.

Anthony and Hunter practiced cutting.

They cut out these Scooby Doo pictures and then glued them onto a piece of paper.

They also colored some Scooby Doo coloring pages.

We practiced shapes.

One of their favorite times seems to be table toys.  This week we used counting bears,

pattern blocks,

and legos for our table toys.  Legos was the definite favorite!

Hailey sharing one of her creations she made.

We made ghost lollipops- simply a tissue taped onto a lollipop.  They thought this simple activity was great!

We made mummies too.  The kids covered a cut in half paper towel tube with glue.  Then they wrapped it up and added googly eyes.

The completed mummies

We used dog bone shaped cookie cutters to paint.

Each day we do a little bit of writing practice.

A few other fun things we did:

Hunter dressed up like a mummy

Hailey was a scary mummy.

Shaggy and Scooby (Anthony and Hunter) unwrapped the mummy to find out who the bad guy was.

We had mummy hot dogs for lunch one day.

Hailey pretended to be Velma- and she misplaced her glasses like Velma is always doing.

Then Shaggy and Scooby (Anthony and Hunter) helped Velma find her glasses.  They loved this game!

We played a matching memory game with Scooby cards, while eating Scooby snacks.

I am reviewing Science Unit Studies for Homeschoolers and Teachers and we have had lots of fun learning about the 5 senses.  I’ll be posting more about it in a couple of weeks- but this is just a sneak peek at the fun we’re having.

It was definitely a fun filled week!

Preschool- Letter R

I was just looking through my pictures and I realized that I never posted this.

This was the last letter we did during our preschool school year- the letter R.  So, here are some of the activities we did for the letter R:

Hunter painted some rocks

He used a foam letter R to stamp the letter R onto his paper.

Hunter loved playing in the rice.  I am so thankful I set it up on our deck because he made a big mess!  But he had a lot of fun.

Hunter stamped Rs onto the R.

He glued ribbons onto the letter R.

He used rubber bands to paint a letter R.

Hunter loved playing with this homemade road!

He worked very carefully using Q-Tips to paint the letter R.

He made an R2D2 (using printables from here).

R is for R2D2.

Hunter practiced his colors by coloring raccoons.

Hunter pretended to be a rocket blasting off.

Then we made a rocket using a soda bottle.  We put paint inside and then Hunter shook the bottle.

Then we added some pieces to the outside of the bottle, for a fun rocket.

Hunter used his do-a-dot markers to make a letter R.

We had lots of fun with the letter R!
We’ll be back to working on letters in the fall,  but for now we’re just doing some summer activities.

(All letter R printables are from Confessions of a Homeschooler, 1+1+1=1, and Enchanted Homeschooling Mom.)

Weekly Wrap Up

We have been busy having fun this summer!  We need to keep a routine and have some structure, otherwise it gets a little crazy around here.  Plus, I don’t want anyone to forget what they learned last year.  So, here is what we’ve been up  to:

Every day we do a short circle time.  A lot of times, Hailey likes to be in charge of doing circle time.  We do the pledge, calendar, days of the week, months, and weather.  We also go over numbers, ABCs, and shapes.  We usually have a story during circle time too.  Here they were watching a 4th of July story that I found on YouTube, becuase I don’t have any books about the 4th of July.  (As you can see, sometimes Harper joins in for circle time.)

 Last week we sang some 4th of July songs and danced around waving flags.

Then the blasted off like rockets- they had to start on the couch, of course.

I used several July 4th printables from This Reading Mama.  This book was one of the printables.  It was perfect!  Hunter was able to “read” it all by himself!

Anthony could “read” it too!  They were both so proud of themselves for being able to read the book.

On this paper, I called out a number and they had to use a do-a-dot marker to stamp the number I said.

Every day we have table toys time.  I get out a different toy, that is not normally played with, and they sit at the table and use the toy.  This is one of their favorite times of the day!  On Monday they used letters with pegs.

On Tuesday they built with Widgets.

On Wednesday they used playdough.

On Thursday they built with blocks.
On Friday they were able to pick their favorite from the week and do that again- they agreed that playdough was their favorite.

We also do a little writing each day.  This is definitely not their favorite part, but we get it done.  On this day they were decorating folders to keep all of their summer writing in.

We do art a few times each week too.  One of the projects we made was a Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom tree with their names.

Since it was the week before the 4th of July, they made a fireworks painting.  They used forks and dipped them into the paint, then made fireworks on their papers.

They also made flags using popsicle sticks and paint.

Hailey

Hunter

Anthony

Of course, there is also lots of free time to play, go outside, and relax.  So far, we’re having a great summer!

Where Did the Year Go?

I can not believe that this school year is already over!  This year absolutely flew by!!  We had a good year though and now we’re enjoying our summer vacation.

Hailey on her last day of 3rd grade.

Hunter on his last day of preschool.

Oh what a difference a school year makes.  My babies are growing up too fast!

I haven’t finished posting about our school activities, plus we’re doing some fun things this summer too, so I’ll still be posting this summer 🙂