Kangaroos, Koalas, Kites, and Kings

Well, we finished up K week today. Unfortunately I don't have pictures of all of our crafts. The boys broke the camera on Wednesday. Tuesday we read a book about a kite contest. Then Sawyer colored a kite with markers. I wanted him to tear and glue paper to it, but he wasn't interested in that. Jaxon joined us in coloring.
Sawyer started sorting these cards into piles. I showed him how they had numbers on them and he sorted them in rows from 1-5. Then I would tell him to hand me the card with 2 eyes or 5 fish. He loved this little impromptu learning game.

Wednesday we read the book, "Can you cuddle like a koala?' The boys acted out all of the animals and it was too cute. Then Sawyer made a koala puppet while Jaxon colored a picture of a koala. These are the last pictures I took before the camera broke. I was dumb and didn't put it in a safe place.
Today we talked about Kings and I read Sawyer a story about King Josiah. Then he decorated a crown. It is very cute, but you will just have to take my word on it since I don't have any pictures.

Little Bit of J and K

Last week we talked about the letter J. During circle time we talked about words that start with J like jar, jelly, Jaxon, Juice, and Jungle. We took turns calling out commands like Jump, Jiggle, and Jog. I printed out Jungle Scenes and Sawyer glued the animals on. He was proud of his work.

This week we are learning about the letter K. I don't really have a theme picked out. We will just talk about different things each day. Today I read the boys a book called "The Blue Kangaroo". I read it twice in a row because Sawyer liked it so much. I actually read it in the bathroom, because we are working on potty training. Sawyer glued parts of a kangaroo onto a paper sack today. He loves kangaroos especially the baby Joey. That didn't take long and he wanted to do something else, so I let him glue kernels onto the letter K. We used sunflower kernels, because that's what I had handy.


I read The Blue Kangaroo one more time before nap and I will read another book about a kangaroo who can't find her cookies when the boys wake up. Then we will have milk and cookies.

Spiders and Ghosts

Here are the ghosts and spiders we made last week. The ghosts are foot prints and the spiders are made by tracing their hands and cutting off the thumb. I saw both of these crafts on Barney's Halloween movie.

The top ones are Sawyer's and the bottom one's are Jaxon's.

Jaxon has tiny feet, size 3 at 13 months, but you wouldn't know it from the picture.

Letter I

We did another Halloween craft last week. I helped the boys make spiders by tracing their hands. I cut them out and Sawyer glued on eyes. They are hanging on their bedroom doors, but I don't have a picture. My battery was out, but I am charging it and will post a pic soon.
We talked about the letter I last week. I didn't have many good I ideas, plus we were busy with Halloween festivities. I did help him make an ice cream cone on Thursday. I cut out the pieces and he glued them together. He was supposed to glue on a pom pom for the cherry, but he wanted lots of cherries on his ice cream.

He also decorated a card for his Lulu's birthday.
This week was supposed to be the letter J. This week really hasn't been that busy, but last week and weekend were so busy that I didn't plan much and I am tired and not feeling well, so we just haven't done anything. Maybe we will start tomorrow or just wait until next week. I haven't decided yet. There is no way I could home school. I am not organized enough.

H and Halloween Crafts

Last week we talked about the letter H. Our theme was Halloween. First he covered the letter H and a treat bag with Halloween stickers. I also let him color and decorate a mini pumpkin.

That same day he painted a pumpkin orange. When it dried I glued on the stem. On Wednesday the boys made ghost prints with their feet. I painted their little feet and helped them make prints. When they dried we glued on googly eyes and drew a mouth.
Saturday Sawyer helped me make and decorate chocolate cupcakes for the church trunk or treat. He helped me pour in the ingredients and mix the batter. I let him decorate two cupcakes, one for him and one for me. I decorated the rest for the cake walk.
I had more planned for the week, but we were all sick at least one day last week. It was not fun! We will talk about the letter I this week, and continue to do a few halloween crafts.

Go Go Go

This week we learned about the letter G. Our theme was go. We talked about different forms of transportation all week. We really started on Wednesday and finished up today. Wednesday we talked about things that go on land like cars, trucks, tractors. We read his big truck book. In the morning he helped me glue together a car craft. It was hard, even for me, so I did most of the work while he colored a G picture and I let him glue the wheels on.
That afternoon he painted with cars. He loved that and did not want to stop.

Yesterday we talked about things that go on water. I did an activity with him to teach about things that sink and float. I had a tub of water and different objects. First I showed him how some sink and some float. Then I had him guess if it would sink or float. His guess was always float, no matter what it was. He was running around the house getting all kinds of things to throw in the water. Jax helped too. I found some stickers that I had in the cabinet with cars, airplanes, boats, etc. and let him stick them on his road he painted the day before. I drew a picture of water and sky and told him to separate the stickers by things that go on land, sky, and water. He didn't really get this at first, but he starting catching on towards the end.

This morning I helped him glue together a sailboat. This lesson taught about wholes and halves. He folded all of the pieces in half and then we glued it together to make a boat. He also colored pages to make this book.

E and F

Well, we haven't completely stopped our lessons, but things have been a little crazy around here. We have been so busy with our normal stuff, plus Jon and Kelsey were here for 2 weeks and we had Jaxon's birthday. We ended up spending 2 weeks on E and 2 weeks on F. I really didn't have much planned with E and we just didn't have time to do much. One day he made a toilet paper Elmo, but Jax tore it up before I had a chance to take a picture. We talked about exercise and did stretches one day. I also let him color a picture of capital and lower case e and glue eyes on it.

With F I had too much planned and we didn't get too it all. We did a farm theme. One activity I did with Sawyer was I let him put cotton balls on numbered sheep cards. I had him use tweezers and tongs to practice fine motor skills. He had fun with this.


One day I put on a cheezy little puppet show with a cow puppet named "Gladys". She taught the boys about all of the yummy dairy products that comes from cows. Then they got to try different foods. Even Jaxon liked this activity. After this Sawyer made a dairy basket by gluing pictures of dairy products on a basket.
The next day he made a pig puppet.


Jax's birthday party came in the middle of all this and was farm themed. Then yesterday we took the boys to Green Meadows petting farm. They were able to pet and feed all kinds of animals, milk a cow, have a hayride, and pick a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. It was a good way to end our farm theme.

We are so busy most mornings that I am really just fitting things in where I can. I have been more intentional about his learning which was my goal, but I am definitely not as organized as I would like to be.