Letter C

Monday was Letter C day

                                                                      
Menu: Coffee Cake or Cereal for breakfast
Carrots, Cucumbers, Cantaloupe, Chips for Lunch
Chickpea Curry for Dinner

God's Word: Creation Story
                      Days of Creation Song by Matt Huesmann
                      Days of Creation Sorting activity

God's World:
                     Animal Sorting activity: Which lives in the Air, Land and Water? Cougar, Caribou, Clown fish, Cardinal, Canary, Cicada, Coyote, Caterpillar, Crocodile, Cod
                     Learned about the Carolina Chickadee, and Cardinal
                    Art project: Making Caterpillars out of pipe cleaners

Countries introduced:
China
Canada
Congo
Cambodia

Bible-less People: Chut of Vietnam

Geographical Landforms:
Canyon
Cape
Cave
Cliff
Continent
Continental Divide
Continental Shelf
Crevasse

Letter C sound Basket:
              c Sandpaper letter
              Objects: Cake, carrot, comb, cow, cougar, cube, coin, cat, clothespin
              picture sound card: car, cobra, clarinet, canoe, crown, colt, cat, crank
              picture book: crown, cat, canoe
Melissa & Doug see and spell words: cake, cow, cat

Clothes Matching
transferring Clothespins
Telling Time on a Clock: 7:00 learned

Counting activities:
Bead pyramid
Sequencing Hatching Chicks
Number Rods

Other C Songs danced to:
Clean it up by Laurie Berkner Band
Car Trouble by Music for Aardvarks and other mammals
Clap by Music for Aardvarks and other mammals
Cells by They might be giants
Chugga Chugga Choo Choo by Choo Choo Soul
Crawdad by Elizabeth Mitchell
This is my Commandment by Veggie Tales

Letter B Lesson Plans

Today was a review of the Letter B
"B says Buh"

Sound Bin with Sandpaper Letter B
which includes: Bat, buffalo, box, bead, bean, Butterfly, Bug, bag, bracelet, beaver, bottle, baby, balloon, bonnet, baboon, bango, ball, bagpipe

Countries Introduced:
Bahrain - Thankful for our friend MJ from here :)
Bangladesh
Brunei
Bhutan - read about the Brokpa people from here who do not have a bible in their language
Brazil - posted the flag on our flags of the World map and prayed for our friend Tanner serving here :)

Landforms introduced: *Geography from A to Z by Jack Knowlton
Badland
Bay
Beach
Butte

Yoga Pose: The Butterfly Pose: Sit tall with the soles of your feet together. Hold the feet with your hands, press your thighs down to open your butterfly wings.  Gently make your wings go up and down and fly away.  Where would you fly?
*yoga command cards by Gini Newcomb from www.Newchildmontessori.com

Songs Danced to:
Bumblebee (buzz buzz) by The Laurie Berkner Band
Only a BOY named David by Matt Huesmann
The BIBLE by veggietales
In the BELLY of the Whale by Veggie Rocks

Melissa & Doug See and Spell words:
Bear
Boat
Bird
Bus

Books Read: Birds, Nests and Eggs by Mel Boring (Given by the Muse Family) - read the pages on the Blue Jay, Barn Swallow and the Black Capped Chickadee

Built with the brown stairs and pink tower:

Moveable Alphabet:
  Spelled the words: Bat, Box, Bug, Bag

Watched video: Were Going on a Bear Hunt

Did our Blue Knobless cylinder Box - shortest to tallest and made a pattern
Learned the Blue Triangular Prism from our Geometric Solids
Traced the Blue square inset with a blue pencil

At Lunch we talked about all the healthy foods that start with B: Blueberries, Black Beans, Butter Beans, Brussel Sprouts, Broccoli, Blackberries, beets, Butternut Squash and what Bulb vegetables were.

There is alot you can learn when you focus on a letter ... stay tuned tomorrow for the letter C :)

Letter A Lesson Plans

We started with our Letter A Sound bin, with our sandpaper Letter A that we traced, our sound book, sound cards and objects that begin with the letter A - Materials I made from Karen Tyler's "A Montessori Marketplace"

Continents touched on:
Africa
Asia
Australia
Antartica - *Also placed this flag our our Flags of the World Map

Countries in Asia touched on and prayed for:
Afghanistan
Armenia
Azerbaijan

United States touched on:
Alabama (Read A is for Alabama for my husband's sake)
Arizona
Arkansas
Alaska

Bibleless People:  the Akebu of Togo * (From Akebu to Zapotec - a Book of Bibleless Peoples)

Geographical Landforms learned:
Archipeligo
Atoll
* from Geography from A to Z by Jack Knowlton - Thanks to the Muse Family for sending this book to us and enriching our school life!!!

Also Read "Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney" Sent by the Muse Family as well  to get a grasp of the big picture of continent, country, state, city, street, house, me....

Sang this song that Kari B taught us while pointing to the appropriate continent:
Seven Continents
      There are seven continents on the earth and they have names, O
      North America
      South America
      Africa
      Europe
      Asia
     Australia and Antartica!
Sung to the tune of BINGO

We then watched a Diego show on Armadillo's - the girls have had a fascination with Armadillos of late.

That's just a snippet of what happened in our classroom yesterday amidst all the unpacking of our new nest.  Feel free to share your lesson plans with me!

God's World

Today was a good day in our nest.  Queen mother was up early and that means our schedule happened today!
- Breakfast and Devotions
- Clear the Table, Brush teeth, get dressed, do "Practical Life" chores.
- Calendar Time - Learned a smidgen about the Declaration of Independence and the 4th of July
- Language Development:
                       - S,M,A,T and sorted pictures and objects according to the various sounds.
                       - Then we read books with topics on those letters: Snow Leopard, Mammals, Animal
                         Discovery and a book of Tongue Twisters.

                 - the first volume video of "Your Baby Can Read" video by Robert Titzer, reviewed the 

                   flashcards and read the books for that Level.  This was a gift from our Uncle Kicker! (a 

                   brilliant mind investing in the minds of my youngins = priceless) We love you Uncle 

                   Kicker!!!

               - Melissa & Doug See and Spell - the girls loved spelling out words on their own

               - Creative Writing (They make up the story and I write it down since they can't write much yet)     

                 the story gets reviewed and expanded the next day.  (this was a new idea thanks to Samara). 

- During the girls See & Spell Time Hudson worked on colors, counting, sorting, fine motor skills, and object permanence with Queen mother. 

- Lunch

- Then we worked on learning our second language before nap-time.

There is still more we didn't get covered in our school day today due to me having to learn to juggle having an almost 2 year old in the classroom who doesn't have the attention span of his sisters.  This is a work in progress and I welcome suggestions from the peanut gallery if you are juggling different young ages of kids 4 and under and have some tips.  Blogging about what were doing is accountability and motivation for me to keep going and for now some sort of record/"evidence" of what we have done.