Math Books

Math is something that we struggle with in our house, no one likes doing it, so I tried to find some things that would make math fun, and my kids LOVE books soooo math books is what we got! I ordered some on line but ususally the Library has some. Hershey's Math series of books are really funny and teach the math concepts usuing CHOCOLATE!!! I love love love Stuart Murphy- his books are GREAT there are TONS of math topics from all different ages his books are fun for kids, and really put math in REAL life situations that the kids can understand and see WHY they need math! LOVE IT! Give me Half is our FAVORITE of them all.
this is one of the MANY we have checked out at the library-
The kids are learning to enjoy math a lot more now.

Language Arts Activites

This are just some random ways that we pratice our LA principles. For our "formal lessons" for Ethan we do a well trained mind first lanngues lessons - but these are just activites we do to reenforce those lessons Aaron Making a picture colloge in his animal book, They also wrote down answers to questions about there wetland adventure they went on. (writting)
Ryan writing letters in the sand- the older boys to this too, great for spelling!
I made this game board from a file folder and office supplies- dots, sticky arrows and - a cheap sheet of stickers I picked up from somewhere. We roll the dice (two- with a + or - so there is a hidden math) Then depeding on what color you land on you have to do something different - the options change depending on what we are learning about- some examples are

Write the linking verbs, make up a sentence using pronouns, act out a small action and try to have us guess the verb, and adjictive. Another is I will write a sentence and he has to circle all the linking vers or state of being verbs or find the different kind of nouns etc. I change it up to focus on what we are learning about.

Ethan building sentences with language cards I picked up on clearnce at a teacher store, and then writing them down.

S is for ....

S is for Sand - we traced letters in a sand try- not as messy as I thought it would be

Snowman- we did some activites under "s" from Confesstions of a Homeschooler

I had planed a snowman craft but we have been really crazy this week with Potty Training and holiday stuff that this are just been a bit crazy around here.

S is for Sign Language- we also talked about how animlas communicate with body language and "signs" to eachother. We study Sign Language on Fridays so this worked well for us.

S is for salmon - we learned about the life cycle of salmon pretty cool :)

S is for Silly- I had this big day planned with doing all this silly stuff eating silly food- but again- did not go as planed- we never did any of it... BUT I am still holding that idea for another day.

A is for ....

A is for Apple - we did apple prints and Ryan and I made yummy apple muffins.

We also wanted to do an Aaron day- where we did everything that Aarons likes but the kids were all really crazy and whinny so it did not work out. Next time.

A is for Ants- read about Ants and did sctivities from Connfesstion of a Homeschooler

A is for Aligator- we learned about aligators, and I wanted to do a craft but that did now work out either. Can you tell it was a bad week??

but life goes on...