Letter of the Week- Letter T

Last week our letter of the week was T.  Here are some of the activities we did:

T is for Tractor from Totally Tots.

Tt is for Tulips using hand and footprints.

Making a T with the playdough mat from Homeschool Creations.

Practicing writing T in her princess workbook.

Do-a-dot letter T from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

Here are some of the things we did from the RRSP curriculum:

Hailey showing off her verse that she colored.  She memorized her verse and we talked about the 10 commandments this week.  Every time Rich or I did something she didn’t like (for example told her to do something she didn’t want to do) she would tell us we were breaking one of God’s rules.  Of course we would remind her of the Honor Your Father and Mother commandment.

Cutting out her letter T vocabulary words.

Showing off her sight word she colored (find sight word printables here).

Using power point from RRSP and reading the sentence.

Checking to see if her verse would fit around her head.

Doing her 10 commandments craft.

Other stuff we did:

Finding the word “the” (her sight word) in her Sight Word workbook.

Calling out the shapes during Shape Bingo that I made using DLTK’s custom Bingo cards.

We are using “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons” and Hailey was sounding out the word mat.  She made the sound for each letter and then said, “Does that say mat?”  She was so proud of herself!!  And I was proud too!!

Stop by Confessions of  a Homeschooler to check out her giveaway for the Expedition Earth curriculum she created.  It’s amazing!!

School Bus and Floating/Sinking Experiment

Today we made a school bus as part of our transportation theme.

First I gave Hailey 3 squares to draw some faces on for the windows on the bus.

Then I gave her a bus shape and had her spread a glue/water (just a little bit of water) mixture all over the bus.

Then she spread yellow tissue paper all over her bus.

Once the whole bus was covered, Hailey brushed a thin layer of the glue/water mixture over the bus.

Hailey added some windows and wheels.

Here is the finished school bus.

Then we did a little experiment:

Hailey dropped a ball of playdough into a bowl of water to see if it would sink or float.  (It sunk.)

Then I shaped the playdough like a boat and asked her what she thought would happen if we put it back in the water.  She thought it would still sink.

When she saw that it floated she was quite excited with the results.  We talked about why this one floated and the first one did not.

Hailey finished up with this color by number from the Transportation Preschool Pack at Homeschool Creations.

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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