Comments: Today's School Lessons
September 30, 2007 11:37:07 AM posted by Nonna My goodness, what a full day of learning you are having. Mommy is making it fun for you.
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September 18th 2007
Today's School Lessons
Literacy: First I explained a listening game to the girls and said a set of three words that rhymed and they took turns saying other words that rhymed with them. To go along with this I made a white board substitute, as we haven't had time to browse Wal-mart for the magnetic white board I'm hoping to find, by taping white paper to the back of a cookie sheet and then taping plastic wrap over that. On it we worked on adding different consanants to ending words ("at", "an", etc.) to see how many words we could make with them. Next I put sets of picture cards on the floor: sun, socks, fan, fish, leaf, and log in a mixed up order, then I had the girls take turns picking a pair that started with the same letter.
Art: I talked about patterns and again used the makeshift white board to give examples of line patterns and have Abby and Zoë take turns finishing the patterns. After this we made pattern bracelets. I cut a slit down a toilet paper tube lenghtwise and then cut it around in three sections to make three "bangle bracelts" I had Abby and Zoë choose what color they wanted their bracelts to be and cut strips of construction paper to fit over the toilet paper tube. Each of the girls picked a pattern they wanted to draw on their paper; Abby chose flowers and squares, Zoë chose triangles and squares and I showed them what the pattern might look like by drawing it on the "white board". With a little help to get started, Abby and Zoë decorated their bracelets and then glued the paper to the toilet paper tube piece and showed off their pattern bracelets to Daddy.
Math: We worked a little on one-to-one correspondence today, incorporating it into snack time. Abby and Zoë are actually pretty good at this for their age, but sometimes they do still get ahead of themselves when counting so I put a pile of goldfish crackers on the table and then had them practice taking one at a time from the big pile and making a new pile in front of them. I was trying to get them to work on two things here: counting each item one at a time and organizing so they keep track of what they're counting.
Abby @ 3 years, 9 months, 3 days
Zoë @ 3 years, 9 months, 3 days
Enzo expected in 1 year, 6 days
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