The ramblings and adventures of a SAHM

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Kindergarten Science.... Taste

For Ryleigh's Kindergarten the last couple of days we have been working through the 5 senses (1 sense a day)... Here is a fun (quick) experiment/ lesson that we did. I took little cups and filled them with: salt water, sugar water, lemon water, unsweetened cocoa, and cocoa with sugar mixed in.... Braeden also partook in the lesson.... that is why there are so many cups! They did not know what they were tasting beforehand. By the end we had discussed: sweet, sour, salty and bitter.

Ryleigh taking a sip of the salty I think...

Hilarious! And by that... I mean for me....

Braeden didn't like the taste either...

There were lots of giggles during this lesson... and I believe Braeden laughed so hard he got hiccups and tears... which made Ryleigh laugh equally hard.

Overall, Ryleigh liked the experiment... but was not interested in repeat tasting...

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Friday, January 18, 2013

Baby its cold outside... winter crafts

Ok, so here in Long Island its not and hasn't been that cold yet... but... winter crafts are always fun :-) Here are a couple of highlights from this weeks classes...

My Preschool class made these cute water/ juice bottle snowmen....

we filled them with cotton balls and decorated with buttons and felt.

I got the idea from here.

They were very serious filling the bottles with the cotton balls...

We made pizza... with some garlic, tomato and motz cheese.... always a fan favorite...

Thank you Pampered Chef for the recipe :-)

Sprinkling on the cheese...

The finished pizza...

Frequently I hide alphabet letters around the room... that the children have to go and find... and put in alphabetical order... these are foam letters that are meant for the bathtub... I think I got them from Walmart... or a similar store...

We read My Red Mittens (I really like this for the preschool age... its short, its cute and it has fuzzy mittens)... After reading the kids put their hand-prints on the red mittens that they glued to black construction paper...

Braeden painting some snow flakes...

An example of our finished Mittens...

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Friday, January 11, 2013

What's in the Box.... Kindergarten... January

Ryleigh is currently in her Kindergarten Year.... and I thought I would share some of the things she works on each day.... because I like seeing what others do for their school day :-).... We are using the work-box method... and some of the subjects rotate in... some things that Ryleigh frequently works on but are not "featured" in this post are: McRuffy Press Science (Kindergarten), Sequencing workbooks, Maze and drawing Workbooks, Geography, Fun reading books, Seasonal Crafts and Projects, etc. ...... she also attends preschool with Braeden so she gets plenty of arts and crafts, fine motor and baking done there :-)

All About Spelling Level 1...

First Grade Singapore Math...

we started with Math U See.... but this is a much better fit for us!

Kindergarten Handwriting without Tears...

All About Reading, Level 1... Ryleigh is midway through the 3rd reader...

so I will move her to Level 2 Mid semester...

A hidden pictures page... for fun...

Sight Words... She is halfway through the Primer Dolch Words...

this day she did a graphing project from The Moffat Girls..

We usually pick a couple of pages from the Big First Grade Book,

if there is time at the end of our school day....

The picture of her Spanish flashcards did not show up...just a bright glare...

so I took a picture of the Binder that holds the cards ;-)

Enjoying the perks of homeschooling... doing her sight words comfy style.....

Posing for a picture...

Working on her Spelling.... Braeden is helping...

We use this board for both All About Spelling and All About Reading...

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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Our First Week back in 2013

We always start the beginning of the week putting our alpha pictures in our books... and going through our letter bin...

To celebrate the start of Winter .... school ended before break before Winter really started... We read The Mitten.... our craft to go along with the book was to lace up cardstock mittens...put all the animals inside the mitten... and then decorated them with glitter....

The finished mittens...

We made these yummy Snow Shovel Cookies... recipe found here... They are chocolate chip cookies...with pretzels...dipped in white chocolate...

Our Letter of the week "l".... we made "l" is for "l"ollipops!

We did an experiment to see which solution would do the best job to clean a dirty penny. I got the experiment from here. We used vinegar and salt (1/2 C vinegar to 2 teaspoons salt), water and soap, and water.

Turns out the vinegar and salt made the pennies shiny and new looking.... but make sure to rinse them off... or they turn green!

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Wordless Wednesday ~ My Mini Me....with Her Mini Me

Ryleigh was very excited to take McKenna to her Daisy Meeting.... in matching uniforms.....

Monday, January 7, 2013

Meet Henry.... Our Elf on the Shelf....

So... our elf has been very busy this year.... below are some of my favorites... Henry showed up the day after Thanksgiving... and then left Christmas Eve.... side note... things get much more entertaining if you hack your elf (put in wire... add velcro).... the scenarios are endless....

Henry had some Dunkin coffee...and didn't bring me any....what's up with that?