We are celebrating 100 days!

For our 100 days celebration we each made a shirt with 100 things on it.

We also had (at David's request) cinnamon rolls shaped like the number 100.

We played a fun tally mark game and then counted by fives to 100.

We also predicted where 100 steps would take us from our front door. The boys were a little off with their predictions. This is all we have done so far I will post more later.

Another Good Start

David was a little nervous about having to start back to school. Now that we are well into the year he is doing well.

Sweet brothers.

John is starting Kindergarten this year. He is so excited. Can you tell?

This was a "box" activity for John the first week back. Goes really well with the ten apples up on top book.

Ten Apples Up on Top center activity up close. I got this at making learning fun http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/ApplesUpOnTopMathIdeas.htm

John was so excited to review the letter b with his batman preschool pack from http://1plus1plus1equals1.blogspot.com/2010/10/batman-preschool-pack.html

He loved these box activities. I use "box" activities when I need John to be busy while working with David. Things are going way more smoothly than I thought they would be. Homeschooling two children is not that bad. :)

"A" Post

Today we are starting our first day of school. John's curriculum does a letter/sound a day! Pretty fast huh. I'm not sure how we will do but I think high expectations are important and most of the time our children will rise to the occasion. Anyway, I found these cute videos to help us with our letter sound association.

This video was a little babyish but he liked it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cGwUfXv-X4

This was really cute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tif2a8vXeAA&feature=fvsr

to teach both long and short a and review writing them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBAuIzZttP4

I also wanted to read John the book Ten Apples Up On Top but our local library didn't have it so I looked on youtube and found a dad reading it for his children. Here is the link if you are interested. We are having a good day. I'll post pictures from our first day later.

Another great blog!

Here is a link to a great kindergarten blog. I will be homeschooling both boys this August so I'm planning through the summer. Here is a link to Kinder Kraziness. Laura is giving away a super cute Miss Bindergarten unit.

One Day Left for This

McGraw Hill has some free apps that are so great, especially for upper elementary students. Here is a link to another blog telling about it http://first-grade-teachers.blogspot.com/

Double Giveaway!!!!

Check out this giveaway over at http://www.kindergartenworks.blogspot.com/ Since I'm going to be teaching my little one Kindergarten and a 2nd grader next year this kindergarten pack, worth 25 dollars, would help me so much.

The Last Two Plagues and Parting of the Red Sea

Well, I finally had time to post our last two plague crafts. This is plague nine. The plague of Darkness. This is supposed to be someone's eyes looking around in the darkness. Plague Ten was interesting and hard for little ones to understand but we just stuck to the scripture. The boys used paper to create a door post and red paint to represent the blood. We talked about God's specific instructions for the Israelites and how they were to obey.

This week we have worked on this one craft. It took a few days to make the people. The printables and instructions for this parting of the red sea craft can be found here http://www.makingfriends.com/biblecrafts/redsea.htm

The boys enjoyed making their Israelites. John did not like that the boys wore "dresses" but I told him that it really wasn't a dress, but more of a robe/cloak kind of thing.

That's all for this week, but I am getting together a huge amount of materials for our FARM unit coming soon. Our Bible time next week will focus on The Israelites roaming in the wilderness and after that the ten commandments!