The West Family : October 2014

Monday, October 27, 2014

It's been awhile since I've shared K's work on here, so here is this weeks work. Starting at the top (on the shelf, blogger is being weird and I can't see which pic is where below,) we have today's craft. It goes with her favorite pumpkin finger play "Five Little Pumpkins". It includes a dark night (black paper), a disassembled fence (craft sticks), 5 pumpkins, a moon, two stars, and a glue stick. The rest of the week we'll use the felt board to use while we read the story.

Next, she has "The Story of Pumpkin" by Frank Fiorello. We picked this up at Curtis Orchard in Champaign, IL, and K has really been enjoying it. We are going to cut the top off the pumpkin and have a gooey fun time removing it's guts.

On the second shelf is the math work. We're using the last of our Halloween foam stickers from last year to do this. She counts with no problem, and she can count items, now it's working on recognizing numbers. Pretty simple, we use this format a lot- put the right number of stickers next to the number. This work has a control sheet, but I'm hoping by Wednesday she'll be able to complete it without it. The book for this work is "Happy Halloween, Curious George"

Next to that is K's name work. She has been leaving off the K-A when she spells her name for some reason, so we're revisiting it. There is a wooden puzzle with her name spelled out that we picked up at the Covered Bridge Festival two years ago, and glittery foam letters to spell it. each day there will be more letters for her to search through to spell her name correctly. The book with this work is Curious George "ABC's" We'll also use the big dry erase board for practice writing, and the book (with CD) at this station is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

The bottom shelf is our fun shelf! The weather has been GREAT recently, so we'll be outside until it's dark- but then we will do this work. The basket has food (foam Halloween shapes), a hungry ghost (door hanger), and a straw. This work involves exactly what you're thinking...using the straw to suck up the foam pieces and drop them in the ghosts mouth. The book with this one is "My Pumpkin," by Lily Karr.

The bucket has clothes pins in it and she'll stand on a chair (or other safe place with supervision) and drop them into the bucket. We started doing this at a tumbleweeds class and she still enjoys it. We like to mix it up by doing our own version of the classic Bozo game, too. (Just, you know, with clothes pin instead of balls.) The book with this work is Fun with Dick and Jane.