Thanksgiving madness

 

hello all, it is my favorite time of year, Fall we love Fall, Harvest, Thanksgiving time around here.

 

We have lots of activities planned for fall; beside the awesome tot packets I have found on Pintrest, we are doing tons of Thanksgiving crafts and activities to help us be thankful for all the blessings we have. Our family kicked off Nov by going to see Free Birds at the drive in, it was a vey cute movie and lots of fun!

 

I went to Michael and pick up a few Thanksgiving craft packs, (they are on sale you know)

 

 

 

next we did so peanut butter cookies and instead of putting  kisses on them we put peanut butter cup yummy!!

 

 

I also pick up a pack of Fall table scatter for my girls to use a counters and manipulative!

 

 
I first had my 2 yr old take the fall scatter and transfer them from one dish to another with a spoon, then I had her sort out all the apples into one container, then all the green apples and leafs and so on. 
 

 
My 3 year old sorted all of them by color and type green leafs, green apples, red apples, orange leafs.
 

 

Then she did patterns with them she did AB, ABB, AAB and ABC patterns. if you are not sure what that means here is an example of an ABC pattern  A-Leaf B-Green apple C-Red apple.

 

 

stay tuned for more activities for fall !!

God Bless and Happy Thanksgiving

 

                          Letter stones

 

 These are the letter stones that I was talking about in my sight word stones post. I use these for my pre school kids as well as spelling a spelling aid for my 1st grader.

 

Here you see my 2 yr old is matching the letter stones to the word octopus , that goes with the letter o that we are learning this week.

 

 

These were super simple to make but a bit time consuming so if you can talk older kids, brothers or sisters, grandmas, or hubby's into helping with the sticking, it could go a lot faster. Note you have to make more then just one of each letter at least 2 of each letter here to make sure you have enough.

 

letter stone uses:

spelling practice

letter recognition

uppercase, lower case letter match

letter match

letter sort

letter go fish

letter dig, done in sand box or bucket of rainbow rice

letter stones are awesome my kids love them. I love them too. Happy letter stone making

 

 

 

 

 

Word stones

 

 

 

My daughter, has a slight case of ADHD.  She has a hard time focusing and staying on track. The smallest of  things will distract her and it takes half the day to get her to focus. With that being said, I have to get creative when it comes to things like English and Math but mostly with things like sight words. I made alphabet rocks for her one day, so she could do her spelling words with them. We are big manipulative fans around her!! While I was doing that I came up with the idea of sight word rocks. I love them!! We play sight word go fish all the time with them. Or we will do sight word match I say the word she finds it.

The are super easy to make. I do it by grade level. Here is the Kindergarten sight words. My daughter was held back from 1st grade and didn't know her pre primer sight words so we stated with those, she learned them over the summer and now we are going for 1st grade words.

so do you want to know how to make the.

step 1 get rocks. I used these pretty ones from the dollar store.

step 2  write words on them or use sticker letters or print the words and paste them on . I used a sharpie on these and even tho I mod podge them the words still come off if you rub too hard.

step 3 mod podge over the words or stickers what ever method you used to get the darn words on there :)

step 4 let them dry over night in a well vented area.

step 5 Enjoy. 

Here is a link to sight words by grade. This sight also lets you create bingo sight word cards. What fun !!

Happy learning