Peanut
PeanutThis week Peanut completed Unit 2 of My Father’s World Kindergarten. Our favorite activities this week–the Creation Mobile…well that and taking a trip to our neighborhood school playground before their school year started back. What can I say…school playgrounds are fun! 😉
This Week’s Morning Board
Here is what our morning board looked like this week.
Want to print these morning board cards for yourself? You can download them free here. Or, learn more about our morning board and how we store our morning board cards by checking out our morning board organization ideas.
This Week’s Workboxes
Here’s our workbox lesson plans from this week. To learn more about what certain activities mean, I encourage you to read the full details in the My Father’s World Kindergarten Teacher’s Manual.
Want to know more about our workboxes? Check out this post to learn how we set up our workboxes and download some free workbox labels here!
This Week’s Music Selections
Being the music teacher that I am, I love finding quality music selections that go along with each week’s unit. Here were our song selections for this week.
Teacup
TeacupThis week Teacup completed week 2 of her “curriculum” which is a combination of Before Five in a Row and Slow and Steady Get Me Ready. Here’s a look at a few of the things Teacup got to do this week.
Our Book of the Week:
Yellow Ball by Molly Bang
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Day |
Workbox 1 |
Workbox 2 |
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1 |
Read Yellow Ball and compare with Luke 8:22-25 |
Reproduce the title page picture of Yellow Ball using paint |
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2 |
Read Yellow Ball and find the yellow ball in every picture. |
Play with a new yellow ball. |
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3 |
Read Yellow Ball and look for as many different colored balls as you can find on the dedication and copyright pages. |
Listen and Draw: Play a slow classical song and let the child draw with one color (SS 1:50) |
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4 |
Read Yellow Ball and discuss how the ball looks larger and smaller in different pictures as a result of perception |
Introduce the functions of a door knob and demonstrate (SS 1:51) |
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5 |
Read Yellow Ball and look for the pictures of fish and the perspective |
Listen and Draw: Play a fast classical song and let the child draw with one color (SS 1:50) |
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6 |
Read Yellow Ball and name as many actions as possible on the “uh-oh” page. |
Let the child try opening/closing various doors/cabinets around the house and attach vocabulary |
