Well, this will be the last Weekly Wrap-Up while Robbie is 4 years old. He will turn 5 on the 30th. I'll still consider him to be in Pre-K until September, but it's weird to think of having a five year old.
Weekly Wrap-Up
Well, this will be the last Weekly Wrap-Up while Robbie is 4 years old. He will turn 5 on the 30th. I'll still consider him to be in Pre-K until September, but it's weird to think of having a five year old.
Robbie's New Favorite Subject
Robbie has been begging to do spelling... a subject I originally wouldn't have dreamed of starting this early. My son's desire to write changed my mind. I want to do my best to stop bad spelling habits before they start.
After reading all the hype regarding All About Spelling, I was sure it was too good to be true.
All Day Science Play
We have a membership to the local children's museum and took Robbie there for a day of fun. It wasn't until I got home and really looked at the photos I snapped of Robbie that I noticed how much hands-on science he was experiencing that day.
Weekly Wrap-Up
I was really pants at taking pictures this week.
I am slowly incorporating items from his upcoming Kindergarten curriculum, but I won't consider him a "Kindergartener" until this September. Between now and then, I hope to iron out a schedule (something I'm not great at) and get him used to being required to do school
Current Read-Alouds
These are a few of the books we enjoyed this week.
"Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" William Steig
Super Mario Bros. Add-On Printables
Robbie has had a recent fascination with "speaking Italian". I'm not sure where it stems from, but we incorporated just a bit of it into our Super Mario Bros. week (yes... another one). I printed out an Italian flag, a map of Italy and made a Mario-themed Italian counting book (1-5). I thought I'd share it with anyone who is interested.
Our DIY Hundred Board Activities
I've always wanted to have a nice, wooden hundred board for Robbie, but I never could justify the cost. I spent last evening making a few hands-on hundred board activities for under $10. Using three pre-laminated hundred charts (the printable ones just seemed too small for my tastes... these are approx. 1"x1") and a set of All About Spelling magnets, I made a traditional hundred board as well as a puzzle version. We're keeping it all on a large old cookie sheet.
I cut the border from one hundred chart to make it fit the cookie sheet. I placed a magnets on the blank side of another and then I cut those out.
It was super easy!
We have a few of these wooden containers (we've had them for years) and I simply cut some craft sticks and glued them together and into the container to make a divider. It worked perfectly!
From the third chart, I cut 25 sections in various shapes (nerd that I am, I used Tetris shapes) and placed magnets on the back of those, as well. This was the first thing Robbie did this morning!!
Math Monday
Weekly Wrap-Up
This was a fun week... in some ways. In others, we struggled. Well, really only in one area. Robbie had a few (non-school-related) Supernanny-worthy meltdowns this week. They truly were a thing to behold. Oh, and they all involved the exact same scenario... they all occurred when I told him that his allotted Wii time was over. It will be quite some time before he is given any Wii time again. (I wouldn't allow him to play AT ALL, but I'm not his only parent... so a compromise was reached.) Other than that, it truly was a good week.
We have been reading several of our books on the life of Christ this week. Robbie also colored this decorative egg I drew for him with "Jesus" on it.
Robbie's reading lessons are progressing very nicely. He already knows most of the phonics rules we are covering, but we aren't skipping anything (just going at his pace). The lessons work well as review, anyway. He still has a deep love of both Hooked on Phonics and Explode the Code. We also did this craft as vowel reinforcement. I just drew the glue bottles (since vowels are the "glue" that holds words together) with the letters on them and he colored them. I realized that we had never talked about vowels vs. consonants before this week (so I started to panic), but he knew all the vowels by the end of the day Monday. I seem to get worked up over nothing, sometimes.
Robbie is breezing his way through subtraction in his Singapore math. He enjoyed playing some RightStart card games as well as using his Easter Egg Math Facts activity. You can read more about it here.
Robbie loved the surprise book I got for him (Usborne "What Shall I Draw?" book).
An inchworm crawled on the back of Robbie's hand.
The egg puzzle I found at the Dollar Tree was an instant hit!
This Mickey Mouse (and Minnie, too) painting set was also from the Dollar Tree.
Robbie and Tyler enjoyed a fun day at the local children's museum. (I'll post more about that soon.)
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What have you been up to this week?
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Symmetry (and more) with Linking Cubes
Our recent extracurricular math activities have brought out the linking cubes. We haven't used these in a very long time. I found an activity book that I'd forgotten about and Robbie is having fun doing an activity or two each day or so.
Here is a look at a bit of his work on symmetry with linking cubes.
He also wanted to do this puzzle. Unfortunately, I was unable to locate three of our linking cube colors (30 cubes) until later in the week, so he was only able to get so far.
Of course, there was also lots of free play with the cubes.
Yes. He made Mario.
This is the book we've been playing with (there is also one available for grades 3-6)..
.. and these are the cubes we have..
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