Homeschool Week 8: H and 7

We made a couple small changes last week.

It has not been working to have specific books assigned to specific days because we are not doing picture book reading time with the school time and it never really goes together well any ways. Plus it seems like it is making it more stressful by feeling like I HAVE to read those books even if we read extra long in the chapter book, or got very distracted by the library bag of books. We read a lot in our family, so it was not like we were doing this to develop habits, we already have them! (We always laugh when we see the "Read to your child 20 minutes a day" advertisements and say that we will have to cut back!) So I am going to put books that go with our theme in the picture book basket for downstairs and just mix them in as we go through our day. Some days we read 12 or more picture books (not including bed time reading), and some days we may be doing other things and only read 3 or 4. So I would like more flexibility in this.

The second big change is that once I took out all the reading I realized that I was not doing as much for letters as I was for numbers, so I am adding in some new letter activities.

Another change is the desire to add some review time, so I am working on that. I always print extra tracing pages and will work that in somewhere, we will see.

Bible Reading Time (at the breakfast table):

• God Knows My Name
• The New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes Gift Edition
  
• A chapter a day in Mark
  

Scripture Memory:

• Read Story for H in Teach Them to Your Children: An Alphabet of Biblical Poems, Verses, and Stories
• Memorize
  
• Review A, B, C, D, E, F and G verse throughout the day
• Review Lord's Prayer as we almost have it
  

Read Aloud Chapter Book:

• A Bear Called Paddington
  

Picture Book Basket:

• Helping Mother**
• Happy Helpers**
• Hannah is a Helper
• Baking Day* (another little helper girl!)
• The Magic School Bus Inside A Hurricane
• Plus a bunch of other great ones we love!
  

Everyday Activities:

• Alpha-Phonics: A Primer For Beginning Readers (Using the letter recognition in the back, and we love it)
• Number recognition - a little chart I made up based on Alpha-phonics.
• Bigger Steps **
  

Monday:

• Read "My 'H' Book"
• H is for Helicopter Tracing Page (Alphabet Buddies)
• H Coloring Page
• Alphabet Caterpillar (Upper Case)
  

Tuesday:

• Read Bible Count*
• Read "My Seven Book"
• Seven Tracing Page (number buddies tracing page)
• Acorn 1-5 Review
  
• Seven Number Buddy Coloring Page
  
• Fuzzy #7 (construction paper, glue, cotton balls)
• Game: Number Start: Fun Games for Learning About Numbers

Wednesday

• Read "My 'H' Book"
• H is for Helicopter Tracing Page (Alphabet Buddies)
• Hippopotamus Coloring Page
• Alphabet Caterpillar (Lower Case)

Thursday

• Read Learning My Numbers*
• Read "My Seven Book"
• 7 Tracing Page (number buddies tracing page)
• Acorn 1-5 Review
• Number in a Jar #7 - put 7 stickers in jar, do tracing, color
  
• Color and decorate #7 (Use large template)
• Game: Learning To Sequence 4-Scene Set, 48 Picture Cards, PreK-3
  
• Craft: Ice Cream Cone Scoop Craft for Numbers scoop #7 (in the evening, this is the Daddy craft and the ice cream cone is growing up my kitchen wall)

Friday

• Read "My 'H' Book
• H is for Helicopter Tracing Page (Alphabet Buddies)
• H is for Heart Bible Tracing Pages
  
• Heart coloring page
  

* From Rod and Staff
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