Helicopter

Hailey saw this helicopter activity in one of my Mailbox magazines and wanted to try it.

This is a pattern from a Mailbox magazine but it would be pretty easy to draw.  I laminated it and cut it out.  Then I cut on the dotted line.

Hailey decorated her helicopter with stickers.

I folded the bottom up about a 1/2 inch and put a paper clip on it.  Then I folded the top part in opposite directions.  Then we held it high up in the air and dropped it.  The directions had said to hold it about 5 feet in the air but I had to hold it up next to the ceiling in order for it to spin a couple of times before hitting the ground.

Hailey also made a stop sign.  I wrote STOP using a white crayon on a piece of cardstock.  Then she painted it red using water colors.

Here’s a picture of Hailey enjoying the town we made yesterday.

Transportation Fun

Continuing with our transportation theme we made a little town with roads for Hailey to drive her cars on.

Hailey placed the roads how she wanted them and then she added some yellow chalk lines.  Then I helped her glue the roads where she wanted them.

She decided we should add some water- so we put some water under a couple roads.  Then we added some houses.

Hailey’s finished town. Once it is completely dry I am going to put contact paper over it so that she can drive her cars on it.

A few other things we did:

Hailey wrote the color words from the transportation pack from Homeschool Creations.

Hailey made a traffic light.

We did a little experiment to see what it would take to sink a “boat.”  I put water in a big mixing bowl, then used a rubbermaid container as the boat.  For each item on our list- containers of playdough, crayons, hearts and blocks- Hailey had to guess how many she thought it would take to sink the boat.  Then we tested to see how many it actually took.

The “boat.”

Testing to see how many blocks it would take to sink the boat.

Our results.

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The Number Train

Our theme this week is transportation and today we made a train.

I taped together 3 sheets of green construction paper.  Then Hailey glued on some railroad tracks.

I put numbers on 10 boxcars to go on the train, so Hailey glued those on in order and added wheels.

Then she added coal to each boxcar.  The number of pieces of coal had to match the number on the boxcar.

The finished train.

Hailey did a number match from the Transportation Preschool Pack from Homeschool Creations.  I laminated the pieces and she used a dry erase marker to circle the correct number.

Letter of the Week- Letter H

Our letter last week was the letter H- here are some of the things we did:

Hailey made this H is for House from Totally Tots.

She also made this H is for Horse using her handprints.

Hailey loves these letter hunts from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

Do-a-Dot letter H page from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

Reading her Letter H book- we have vocabulary pictures that she colors, cuts out and then glues to index cards.  I turn each one into a letter book.

Definitely one of Hailey’s favorite things to do- play on Starfall.

This has the letters on it we have done so far with RRSP.  To review the sounds we sing this song to the tune of “Do You Know the Muffin Man?”
Oh do you see the letter [I]
the letter [I]
the letter [I]
Oh do you see the letter [I]
it says [iii iii iii]

Oh yes I see the letter [I]
the letter [I]
the letter [I]
Oh yes I see the letter [I]
it says [iii iii iii]

Doing a maze in her princess workbook following the letter Hh.

Here are some of the things we did from RRSP:

Showing off her verse that she colored.

Putting her vocabulary words into the baseball card sheet protector.

Practicing writing Hh.

Color by number for her sight word of the week (and).

Cutting

Gluing her shape parents to go along with her verse.

Other:

Practicing writing her sight word in her Sight Words book.

Working on her Clothespin ABCs where she has to match the capital and lowercase letters (using the printable from 1+1+1=1).

Doing an activity for the number 7 (the number of the week) in a Disney book.

Counting How Many (from 1+1+1=1) and putting the clothespin on the correct number.

Our theme last week was horses (at Hailey’s request) and we spent all week doing horse activities and reading horse books.  On Saturday we went to a small maple farm and they were giving pony rides.

The perfect way to end our letter H/horse theme week!