More Initial Consonants Work

We finally made it back to our school room after more than 2 weeks off!  It was quite an adjustment to be back in there, but it ended well...phew!

E(3) had fun completing this initial consonants work.  I printed and laminated these cards several years ago for O(6), so I'm not sure where they came from...I'm hoping someone will recognize them and let me know, so that I can add a link.

To do this work, E(3) named the picture, said the sound for each letter listed, and then circled the letter that matches the picture.  She was leaning over on my lap and snuggling me the whole time she worked.  At one point, she paused in her work and looked at me and said "When I grow up, I'm going to make art to put in museums and be a ballerina."  Love her!

More Preschool Reading Work

E(3) LOVES to do reading work!  I do NOT make her do this work...I give her the opportunity, and she either takes it or doesn't.  If she doesn't want to do the work, that is absolutely fine.  I follow her lead, and right now she wants to read like her big sister! (but she spends most of her time engaged in pretend play, listening to us read books to her, and playing outside...she spends less than 15 minutes a day doing reading work and only about 3 days a week....I don't want to push reading on her as it is not really developmentally appropriate for a 3 year old.  However, since she wants to read desperately, I'm not going to deny her. She's having fun, and that is what is most important!)

She loved reading simple words using the sandpaper letters last week!

E loves the spinny speller!

Since O(6) is doing All About Reading Level 2, E(3) was THRILLED when I ordered All About Reading Level 1 for her!  She begged to read the stories and was disappointed that the lessons didn't have her reading stories right from the beginning.  She loves reading the words on the green cards, and she had fun making the words on the Spinny Speller match her flashcards.  I love that the lessons are so short and engaging for her.  We haven't done any of the worksheets yet...I'm not a fan of worksheets, but E really wants to do them, so we probably will.  (I'm not a fan of flashcards, either, especially for E's age, but she loves them, so she reads them).

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Initial consonants work

Here is the box for the initial consonants work that I wrote about a few days ago. This activity is leftover from my mom's teaching days, and I have no idea where it came from. Hope this helps all if you who have asked about it!!!

O's Poetry Journal

I ordered this poetry journal for O(6) from Lakeshore, and she LOVES it!


Sadly, she says that reading is her least favorite part of school, but she's always excited to read her poem of the week.  We read it together 2 or 3 times before she reads it on her own.  After reading it a couple of times, she usually memorizes it.  She LOVES for me to introduce her to her family and friends so that she can perform her poems!


She looks through the book each week to choose the poem that she wants to read next.  She read "Jellyfish" while we were at the beach, and she was SO proud to read a birthday poem to her daddy and E(3) during their birthday weeks!

Boone and Little Bear

The girls and I finished reading The Indian and the Cupboard last Monday, and we have had fun pretending that these toob figures are the characters of Boone and Little Bear.  We LOVED this book, and we are looking forward to reading the rest of the books in the series!

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Glow Station School

The girls and I had fun learning letters, writing our names, and writing words using the glow station and the moveable alphabet.  We put the letters on the glow board and waved the wand over them while saying "bippity boppity boo!"  Then we removed the letters, but they were still there...magic!







I think this will be a fun way for O(5) to practice handwriting, too!  There are so many creative ways to teach when you homeschool, and I'm hoping to make our homeschooling days full of fun!




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The Alphabet Stomp

While Elliott and I were in a hospital far away having his brain tumor removed, the girls stayed with their grandparents for the week (the longest we've ever been away from them...it was so hard).  They had lots of fun playing outside and playing school.  My mom found these large letter cards leftover from her teacher days, and they had fun learning with them all week.


One day after we returned home, I spread the cards out all over the floor of the deck, and we played "Alphabet Stomp!"  I called out letter names or sounds, and the girls found the letters and stomped on them.


After playing for a while, we put the letters in ABC order.


Then we walked along our alphabet path and said the letter names or sounds as we walked.


Lastly, O(5) and I had fun making words with the letter cards.



My favorite thing about this activity was that we did it outside!  I love for our girls to spend as much time outside as possible. They usually spend their outside time digging in the dirt and making various stews and soups out of dirt, sand, gumballs, leaves, etc, but occasionally we'll "play" school, too :)

An Edible Moveable Alphabet

The girls and I were really excited to see these Scrabble Cheez-its at the grocery store a few weeks ago! E(2) said the name or sound of the letter, and O(5) made simple words with the letters. Fun and simple!

Words from Boxes

A few months ago when I was sorting our recycling, I noticed all words on the various boxes (cereal boxes, etc.). It seemed a shame to recycle all those words when we could be reading them. So, I started cutting out all the words and put them together in a box.

O(5) was VERY excited about the words. We've had fun making silly sentences with them, but we really need more verbs. I plan to keep adding to our word collection, and I think we're going to have lots of fun with this activity for a while!

Reading Power Tower

My mom and I made a Reading Power Tower when we made the math one. O(5) LOVES this one, too, and she's getting lots of fun practice reading sight words!


We took turns reading all of the words to make a huge tower!


She loved knocking it down!