The last few weeks have been full of craziness with traveling, sick kids, parents moving….and finally this week someone {ahem} got back on the homeschooling wagon and had fun with ‘T’ activities. I have one other project that we started (and are are still working on) that I will post early next week. It’s just too cute and I’m going to do a separate post on it in a few days.

Here’s a little bit about our ‘terrific’ week:

ABC Book: Turtle

We used a small paper plate as the ‘shell’ for our turtle. You can find a template for the turtle’s head and feet here. Just for fun we added some googly eyes too.

Alphabet Activities: Cuisenaire Rods, Building T’s and Opposites

Cuisenaire rods: I believe that these are my "new favorite" manipulative. I picked them up at a used curriculum sale last week and Zachary had so much fun playing with them. The rods all vary in length (each length is a different color) and I also picked up a ‘workbook’ that had alphabet activities (create a top, a train, etc…).

Building T’s: We used our 1" blocks to make both upper and lower case T’s.

Opposites: During the week we talked about words that were opposite and started with the letter ‘T’. Here are a few we used: bottom (top), tender (tough), go straight (turn), easy (tricky), nice (terrible), short (tall), awake (tired) and false (true).

Art Activities: Train and Handprint Tulips

The Train: I’ll be sharing the train we’re making in a few days {it’s just too cute!!}. Updated: click here for the link.

Handprint Tulips: We also made some tulips using Zachary’s hand and arm. To make your own flowers you will need:

• green and another color of paint for the ‘flower’
• brushes
• 12"x18" paper
• and lots of messiness protection (i.e. a smock)

1. Paint your child’s hand the color you would like the flower to be
2. Then from the inside of their wrist down to the elbow, paint green for a ‘stem’.
3. Press their hand and arm onto a piece of 12"x18" paper and repeat until you have paint everywhere…or pretty flowers.

Fun Activities: Towers, Tea Tasting, & Tunnels

A Tower of 20: Everyone had fun pulling out the 1" blocks to make tall towers. Zachary counted out 20 blocks and kept trying to build his tower 20 high. It took him a little bit (and a few interferences from a younger brother) before he was able to build it using all the blocks – but he did it!!

Tea Tasting: There are tons of tea bags sitting around our house so we brewed up 4 different kinds of tea {of the non-caffeinated version thank.you.very.much} and held a little taste test. Verdict was that peppermint tea was the tastiest!

Tunnels: Blankets, pillows and fun. Need I say more?

Letter Sheet/Collage

 
Math: Two’s, Ten’s and Telling Time

Counting by 2’s and 10’s: Zachary is can count by 10’s up to 100 now and is practicing counting up to 10 by 2’s (and doing quite marvelous!!).

Telling Time: We have a great little folder game for telling time that I made several years ago and Zachary is practicing telling time to the hour and half hour (we’re getting there!!). I found a cute notepad of blank clock faces at a local teaching store, drew the hour/minute hands on them and glued them into a file folder. I made up little matching time cards (4:00, 4:30, etc…) that match along with the clock faces.

Verse: Proverbs 3:5

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart." ~ Proverbs 3:5

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