Berenstain Bears Unit 1, week 4

A trip to Disneyland and California Adventure this weekend put me a day behind in getting my lesson plans posted, but we had a fabulous time!  LOL

But, back to the regular .... and our lesson plans.  This week we are finishing off the calendar with "fall" season learning.

Monday:  

• Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and Nature pages 54-64
• Fall leaves coloring page from Crayola using our new Crayola scented markers (not as nice as our Mr. Sketch ones though)
• Set of fall leaves meant to be colored by bingo dot markers/Do-a-Dot markers.
• Various Kumon workbook scissor and coloring sheets in the "Ready for Kindergarten" series

Tuesday:

• The Year at Maple Hill Farm months of Oct-Dec
• Copywork worksheet on month names of October, November and December
•  Sheep drawing from Draw Write Now book 1

 Wednesday:

• Holiday overview of Harvest, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas
• Holiday worksheets from Evan-Moor 
• Fall Harvest learning center packet from ABCteach.com

Thursday:

• Leaf mobile from ABCteach.com
• ABC fall themed packet of worksheets from Evan-Moor Teacher Filebox
• Apple tree life cycle book
•  Nature journal outside to see our apple tree in blossom with some small apples.  

Friday:

• DK Eye Witness Weather page 6-7 on planet orbits
• Usborne Beginners:  Sun, Moon and Stars book
• TAG reader Solar System Adventure Pack from the recent Target toy aisle clearance! 

She is also continuing her Learning Language Arts Through Literature Blue package to learn to read, and doing well.  We go at a slow pace.

Eden at "school"

IMG_1364, originally uploaded by WeeBeaks.

Eden has her own little desk in the school area. This morning she came down her "nigh nighs" (blankets), carefully tucked them in her desk below her seat for safekeeping and then set to work coloring. LOL

Berenstain Bears Section I, Week 3

Onto week 3 on Lily's kindergarten unit built around The Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and Nature.  This week we are moving on to themes of "summer," plants, gardening, 4th of July and weather of how to read a thermometer and thunder/lightning.

Monday:

• Read Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and Nature pages 40-53. 
• Summer printables from Evan-Moor Teacher Filebox
• Craft:  Sun Catchers shaped like flip flops from Oriental Trading (all the kids will do this one)
• Draw Write Now Book 1:  Draw Pig picture.

Tuesday:

•  The Year at Maple Hill Farm:  Months of July-September
•  Months copywork - Write out month names of July-September
•  Read The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds 
•  Draw Write Now Book 1:  Copy the first sentence about pigs onto her picture.

Wednesday:

• Talk about the Fourth of July and Labor Day holidays. 
• Fourth of July Packet from Evan-Moor Teacher Filebox
• Draw Write Now Book 1:  Copy the second sentence about pigs onto her picture.
• Usborne Complete Book of Farmyard Tales book and audio CD

Thursday:

• Read The Magic School Bus Gets Planted
• Do some gardening and make a drawing for her Nature Journal
• Start reading Lightning:  It's Electrifying with Noah also

Friday:

• DK Eye Wonder Weather book pages 26-27
• Finish Lightning:  It's Electrifying from Thursday with Noah
• Berenstain Bears book on how to read a thermometer
• Printable on reading thermometers from here

Berenstain Bears Section I, Week 2

ARRRGGHHH, it deleted my almost complete post.  So ... here I go again ....

So, last week went quite well with Lily, and she enjoyed the first week of Berenstain Bears, where we looked at winter months and holidays, plus winter weather. We are moving on to the next week! Here are my lesson plans in detail for Section I, Week 2, for my Kindergartner:

Monday:

• Read "spring" section, pages 22-39, in Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and Nature
• Craft:  Spring flower coloring using our Do-a-Dot set
• Craft:  Spring garden friends coloring sheet from crayola.com using our new fine line marker set
• Cut/paste picture from Kumon workbook, spring theme 

Tuesday:

• Read April-June pages in The Year at Maple Hill Farm 
• Trace and copy month names for April, May and June carried over from the worksheet linked in week 1 plans.
• Read Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni
• Begin drawing lessons for her using colored pencils and/or crayons with Draw Write Now 1 book (farm animals), using her new My First Draw & Write Journal from Lakeshore Learning (love those!)
• Choose a couple kite coloring pages/crafts from this page with LOTS of kites theme printables and activities.
• Kites dot to dot for "math" from Teacher Filebox (Evan Moor subscription service - highly recommend if you are homeschooling little people in the K-6 grade range, especially if you have more than one child)

Wednesday:

• Talk about holidays of April Fool's Day and Easter
• Various printables about holidays from Enchanted Learning
• Read A Peek Into My Church

Thursday (light day due to parkday!):

• Evan Moor Teacher Filebox on chickens
• Sequencing activity on eggs hatching from Evan Moor Teacher Filebox

Friday:

• DK Eye Wonder Weather on wind, rain and tornado, p. 16-17, 24-25, 28-29
• Teacher Filebox Rain fun worksheets
• Read Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow
• Rainbow craft of some type TBD depending on time.  Pinterest here I come on this one - bet there are some great ideas on there.