Adventures with the Ross Family

Jax is 4 years old!

This last week was about the letter Qq.  And our theme was Easter!  I was so glad that Qq fell on Holy Week so I didn't have to try and find a Qq theme!

We started out with Easter patterns from Our Little Monkeys.

We are now on YCR #5 so he looked for his sight words in the sentences.  We then cut out his sentences into strips for more cutting practice!

Coloring his bible verse from RRSP.

And oh, we played some Angry Birds.

At this time, I would like to thank Target for making an EXCLUSIVE Easter Angry Birds game.  "It has Easter eggs that crack open and pigs with bunny ears!  Oh, and there is the WHITE bird!"  This was how Jax convinced me that we could not leave Target without this game.  Sigh.

Taping his Bible verse from RRSP.

He was having some tape issues and truly enjoying it!

Practice writing the letter Qq from RRSP.

Coloring a bible verse craft from RRSP.

Easter Number matching puzzle from Our Little Monkeys.

He is officially done with the RRSP curriculum and that's a good thing.  It was becoming easy for him and he is ready for something new.  I will now be working with him with theme units and using RRSK as a curriculum guide.  Some of the stuff in RRSK is a bit too hard for him, but I am still going to use it and know that he will "get" it eventually.  Nothing wrong with exposing him to it! 

Even though it is still nice outside, we managed to stay on track with Tot School.  This week we learned about the letter Ss.  And Ss is for Space!

First we used Confessions of a Homeschooler K4 Letter Hunt worksheets to find the letter S.  I love that I can send PDF's to the iPad.  Saves on paper!

 

We painted our Bible verse from RRSP.

 

Cutting, sorting and glueing objects in space.  By far his favorie activity!  This was from the Preschool Pack Solar System from 1+1+1=1.

 

We made a moon.  I just used shaving cream and glue (Same idea when we did the Weather Theme.)  He loved this.  He calls it "messy hands!"  When the glue dried, it has some great texture...like the craters on the moon!

 

Practicing drawing shapes.  (I just got this workbook at the $1 store.)

 

Cutting out his Bible verse from RRSP.  (Ingnore Miss Julie in the background.  She was getting into the workboxes.)

 

We practiced writing the letter Ss from RRSP.  And Julianne was trying to "draw" as well.

We played a matching shapes game from 1+1+1=1.

 

We worked on our RRSP craft of cutting and glueing.

 

We also worked on counting with a $1 store workbook.

Reviewing our past sight words with the preletter writing worksheet.

Planet maze from 2 Teaching Mommies.

We worked on a review of our YCR sight word puzzles.

 

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Jax is 49 months old.

This week was about the letter Gg and Gg is for garden!

We started off the week playing with the alphabet and making words!

We painted our Bible verse from RRSP.

Playing a flower game from Homeschool Creations.

We read Brown Bear Brown Bear by Bill Martin.  I found this ABC connect the dots printable over at Making Learning Fun.

Garden number clip cards from Homeschool Creations.

Lots and lots of playdoh this week!

Cutting, sorting, and glueing seed packets with Homeschool Creations.

Cutting out the Bible verse from RRSP.

Painting our sight words using YCR Lesson 3.

And that was our week!  Next week Ss is for Space!

I used the following resources:

Letter Gg from 1+1+1=1

Garden Theme from Homeschool Creations

Brown Bear Printables from Making Learning Fun!

YCR Lesson 3 from 1+1+1=1

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Jax is 49 months.

This week was about the letter Cc and Cc is for camping!  I put up Jax's tent in his room and he LOVED it.  In fact, the first couple of nights, he did sleep in his tent.  But by the third night, he was back in his bed because he was tired of sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor.  Way too cute.  Anyways, onto what we did this week:

We worked on the Camping Food Sorting worksheet from Homeschool Creations.

Cutting our Bible verse from RRSP.

Working on a maze from Homeschool Creations.  This is still too tricky for him, I need to stick to the alphabet mazes for now.

We read a story about camping from Homeschool Creations.

Jaxson has been earning money to buy the Toca Boca Store app.  He finally earned enough so we played this during Tot School. 

Painting our OBEY craft from RRSP.

Practicing writing the letter Cc from RRSP.

We used the caterpillar sight words from Moffatt Girls in our pocket chart this week.  Just a different way to see the words we have been working with.

Number Clip camping cards from 2 Teaching Mommies.

Phonics clip cards from Homeschool Creations.

Working on patterns with Homeschool Creations.

Matching with three part cards with Homeschool Creations.

It was a great week and we accomplished a lot!

Here are the resources I used this week:

RRSP Letter C Printables

2 Teaching Mommies Camping Time Printable

Homeschool Creations Camping Preschool Pack

Moffatt Girls Caterpillar Sight Word

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Jaxson is 49 months old.

This week was about the letter Uu our theme was weather.  Since Uu is for umbrella and umbrellas are for rain..and rain is weather!  This gave me a broader theme to work with and Jax loved the weather theme.  It also helped that we had snow and a tornado watch all in one week.

Anyways.

We started off the week with our RRSP Bible Verse coloring and cutting.

We also worked on the RRSP crafts from the letter Jj and letter Uu. 

We hadn't done puzzles in a while so we brought those out.  He used to get so confused on this puzzle....and now he didn't even need any help!

A letter finding worksheet from Beginning Reading.

Jaxson was introduced to the Clip and Number cards from 2 Teaching Mommies.  These cards were left over from Valentine's Day that we didn't get to.  He loved this activity and did it over and over.

I made a sensory bin with dried rice and put letters of his sight words in there.  Then he had to dig to find the letters and then match them to the YCR sight words. 

Jaxson used the RRSP to practice writing the letter Uu.

More clip and learn cards.  This time it was snowflakes from 2 Teaching Mommies.  You know, since we had our dusting of snow last week.

I found this project over at I Can Teach My Child.  Mixing shaving cream and glue and spreading it on paper.  It dries three dimensional therefore it looks like a cloud.  This was a HUGE hit of the week!

White play-doh is like a cloud as well!  Jax used his Elmo shape maker most of the time and when Elmo would ask him to find the shapes to make he would do it.  I highly recommend this toy...Jax played with it forever.

Using a white dishtowel (since I had no cotton balls!) to make the "cloud" rain.  Jax liked that.

Another huge hit of the week was this experiment.  Pour water in a glass and add shaving cream to the top.  This will be the clouds.  Then put a couple of drops of blue food coloring in the clouds.  The food coloring will start to fall from the clouds!  I have no source for this but found it on Pinterest.  We did this over and over and he would watch the "rain" fall.

Practice writing with YCR.

Self correcting puzzles with YCR.  And we also read our sentences.  Again, I don't expect anything except that he recognizes the sight words in the sentences.

It snowed in the beginning of this week.  But by the end of the week the temps were in the upper 70's and we had rain.  Perfect weather to study for our weather unit!

And that's it for the week!

You can view my Pinterest board on Weather here.

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Jax is 48 months.

This week was all about the letter Jj and the theme this week was Valentine's Day!  Jax is into all the holidays so I thought he would enjoy this a lot.

I'm terrible of thinking of creative tot tray ideas.  And he loves them so much so I'm trying to be much more intentional.  This one?  Using a clothesline pin and putting the pom-poms in an ice cube tray.  He loved this.

We painted our Bible verse from RRSP by 1+1+1=1 and we talked about the picture of Jesus being the way, truth, and life.  Did it stick?  Probably not.  But it's planting the seeds, right?

This was a favorite activity...eating candy for the sake of learning about it!  His most favorite part was learning it was hard, not soft!  This printable was from 2 Teaching Mommies.

Using the iPad with Confessions of a Homeschooler's Letter Hunt worksheets.

Practicing writing the letter Jj from RRSP.

Cutting and taping his Bible verse from RRSP. 

Alphabet and number mazes from 2 Teaching Mommies were a hit!

Valentine's Day sorting activity by 2 Teaching Mommies.   Anything with glue is fun!

This was a great week for him and he loved the Valentine's Day theme.

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Jax is 48 months old.

This week was all about the letter Rr, sight words from lesson 2 of YCR, and robots!

We started off with our RRSP curriculum and he jumped right in to cut and tape his Bible verse.

We worked on our RRSP Bible craft which was glueing shapes to make a church.  This was a great to talk to Jax about.  Since Justin is the youth pastor, Jaxson pretty much feels like he is home at our church!

And then we colored our Bible verse printable.  Again, this provided some great conversation as to why we go to church.

We jumped into Lesson 2 of YCR this week.  Here Jax is practicing drawing lines to match the sight words.

And we also worked on finding the letter Rr on a robot printable from Homeschool Creations.  Very cute!

We haven't played with playdoh in a couple of weeks so Jax jumped right into it.  And yes, he's wearing his pirate costume yet again.

Jaxson ran out of water colors so when we were at Walmart, I picked some up for him.  He was so happy and kept thanking me.  Too funny!

I find that he learns his sight words really well, if he throws his Angry Bird plush bean bags at them.  So we taped up his sight words and he went to town on it! 

After that, we worked on the sight word puzzles.  He did great on this, but probably because he just got done throwing Angry Birds at them!

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Jaxson is 48 months old!

This week was about the letter Bb and B is for Body!

We started off this week by working on Labeling the Face Worksheet by Two Teaching Mommies.

Play-doh was a huge hit this week.  He got a Play-doh activity center for his birthday and we played with it every. single. day.

We painted our Bible verse from RRSP at 1+1+1=1.

I loaded PDF worksheets onto our iPad for Jax to use. I used A-Z Letter Hunt Worksheets by Confessions of a Homeschooler and Feelings Tot Pack from 1+1+1=1.

Here are instructions to loading PDF's on the iPad.  Instead of using the App PDF-Notes, I use Noteability.  Jax thinks this is so cool and it saves paper!

Practiced writing the letter Bb from RRSP at 1+1+1=1.

We traced our site words for this week from YCR at 1+1+1=1.

We colored faces that showed different feelings from 2 Teaching Mommies.

We played Angry Birds.  A lot.

We worked on our Sesame Street Workbook.  This one was all about numbers.

We labeled more body parts from 2 Teaching Mommies.

We colored more sight words from YCR at 1+1+1=1.

We found letters in our sensory box to make our sight words and matched them up.

We traced Jax's body.  He loved this.  We drew his face and he kept saying he was really tall.

We put together an Angry Birds puzzle.  Many, many times.

We worked on the other Sesame Street workbook about letters while Julianne tried to grab it.

And we put together a mini-book All About Me from Lawteedah.

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Jax is 47 months old.

This week was all about the letter Pp.  And Pp is for pirates!

First we started with playing Angry Birds.  He loves this and we play this everyday.

We played with the Color Wheel again from Mama Jenn.

We started out the week with our RRSP Curriculum. 

Jax painted his Bible verse, cut and pasted it, and watched the powerpoint. 

Jax loves his Crayola Dry Erase Activity center to find letters.

We built a pirate ship.  So much fun!

In our YCR lesson, we matched letters to our words and put the puzzles together.

We also worked on connecting the words and following the lines to connect the site words.

We worked on some pirate math from the 1+1+1=1 Kindergarten Printables.

We talked about our colors with the Pirate Parrot coloring book from Homeschool Creations.

We glued the RRSP Bible craft.

And to practice our sight words we put them around his room and threw the Angry Bird bean bags to each one we called out.  He LOVED this.  I got this idea off of 1+1+1=1.

And lastly, since Pirates love their gold, we talked about coins and matched them to the different pictures.  This was also from Kindergarten Printables from 1+1+1=1.

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Jax is 47 months old.

We had a great week in Tot School.  Jax truly loves it and I was glad to be hanging out with him.  Our focus this week:

Letter Dd (RRSP curriculum, sounds, writing)

Dd is for Dinosaur (theme)

YCR Lesson 1 (sight word: the)

Jaxson started off the week by painting his Letter Dd Bible verse from RRSP.  Julianne joined in and played ate a puzzle.

He cut his Bible verse and taped it with very little help from me!

And we worked on our RRSP craft of using positive words instead of complaining or arguing.  This was great to explain to Jax that we don't say "no" and why "yes" is always nicer. 

I let him cut out his thought bubles which is why they are so big.  And I really let him work on the glueing all by himself.  Which explains why he used half a bottle of glue for this project.

We worked on ABC Dot to Dot page.  He understood the concept really well and did great.  And the picture was a dinosaur!  Imagine that!

We played with Play-doh a lot.  And Jax even made a letter Dd with it!  He usually doesn't like to, but I guess he was in the mood....(play-doh mat printable from Confessions of a Homeschooler.)

We painted, used stickers, and drew with markers.  Lots and lots of art this week!

I started YCR Lesson 1 with Jax.  He's showing interest in reading, but I don't want to push him.  So we are starting with sight words and sounds of letters.  If he gets it, great!  If he doesn't, then I am at least exposing him to it.

I had him cut out the different sentences with the sight words in it and put it in our tabletop chart.  We searched for the word "the."

We colored the word "the".  Then I had him write the word on our white board and then match up the letter tiles.  He did great!

Then we took one of his books and looked for the word "the" in it.  He liked finding that!

We practiced writing the letter Dd from RRSP. 

And we did another ABC Dot to Dot page.  This one had more of the alphabet and I could tell this was harder for him.

And the Color Wheel from Mama Jenn was the hit of the week!

Basically, it's water with three food colors in it.  Using an eye dropper, you mix the colors on the worksheet.  He just was fascinated that yellow+blue=green!  After mixing the colors, we would put a paper towel over it and the colors would soak through.  He did this for over a 1/2 hour.  No joke!

Next week:  Pp is for Pirates!

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