Week in Review

We are taking a few weeks off from Heart of Dakota.  While there is a lot of information about the Pilgrims covered in HOD, I wanted to do a Thanksgiving unit that also focuses on the Native Americans.

I am using a fantastic Thanksgiving Unit from The Razzle Dazzle Classroom.  Last week we learned all about the Sioux Indians, and it was so much fun!

After we learned about the Sioux Indians- Hailey made this tee-pee and wrote some information about what she had learned about the Sioux.

We did this super fun mapping activity, which Hailey loved!  She said, “Wow, this is a lot of fun!”

I tried to convince Rich that we should make an actual tee-pee in our family room, but he did not share my enthusiasm.  So, instead I had Hailey and Hunter make these adorable tee-pees that I found on Pinterest.

Hailey is learning plural nouns vs singular nouns- she did a word sort with nouns, putting each word into the correct category.

She also did some worksheets to practice plural nouns.

We did a lot more, but I guess I didn’t take very many pictures.  I’ll try to do better this week 😉

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Tot School

Hunter is 23 months old

We had another fun week at Tot School!

We are learning all about spiders and we even caught a spider to observe.  Hunter really liked watching the spider!

Color sorting with M&Ms onto different colored spiders.

I asked Hunter, “Where is the blue one?” and he pointed in his mouth because he had just eaten a blue M&M 🙂

Hunter loved searching through rice for some plastic spiders.

We sang a little spider song.  We sang it to the tune of 10 little Indians:
Crawl, crawl, crawl like a spider.
Crawl, crawl, crawl like a spider.
Crawl, crawl, crawl like a spider.
Crawl around your web.
We used different words in place of crawl like pounce, jump, etc.

You can see some of the other spider fun we had by clicking on the picture above.

Hunter enjoyed some sensory bags this week- this one had shaving cream in it.

He also played with a sensory bag with shampoo in it.

E was our letter this week- we were making an elephant and didn’t have any gray paper, so Hunter colored the paper.

Making the E craft

E is for Elephant

Hunter played with his letter magnets and sang the ABCs

We added the letter E to our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree.

We have been learning about Thanksgiving and this week we learned about the Sioux Indians and made tee-pees.  Hunter worked a long time coloring his tee-pee.

Hailey and Hunter’s finished tee-pees.

Hunter likes to do whatever Hailey is doing, so he worked on coloring a picture just like she was doing.

Stop by 1+1+1=1 to see what the other tots were up to this week.

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The Mayflower

I saw this cute Mayflower craft over at Ramblings of a Crazy Woman.  So after we read a book about Thanksgiving and talked about what the Mayflower was we made this project.

You’ll need: construction paper, craft sticks, glue and a brown crayon.

Color the boat.

Glue on the water.

Add the boat and the sails.

The finished Mayflower.

Indian Corn

We made some really easy Indian Corn.

You’ll need: Indian corn shape cut from paper bag, glue, ribbon, construction paper cut into squares.

Glue the colored squares onto the Indian corn.

Once they are dry, tie a ribbon around the Indian corn and display.