Some Leaf fun with my little one!

   My little munchkin has been patiently waiting for more leaves to fall from the trees so we can rake them up and have tons of fun jumping around in the piles! Last year we did it for the first time and the pictures I took were absolutely priceless!

    In the meantime, while we wait for those leaves to a fall and for autumn to be in full effect, we will continue to talk and have some fun learning about the change in weather and all that comes with it.

   We went outside in our backyard to collect leaves and came back inside and talked about the beginning letter in the word “leaf”.  I pulled out some fall scrapbook paper, drew the letter Ll and let her glue her leaves onto the paper.

    

   And I found a cute Fall Tree snack idea in an old Mailbox magazine and put my own twist on it:

   After that yummy snack, we took a nice nap! 

   All during the week, she bugged me to do some “work” with her paint stampers. Yes, she actually tells me “I wanna do work.” So we tore up some brown paper and glued them onto a sheet of white paper to make a tree. Then she went wild, adding red, yellow and orange “leaves” with her paint/bingo stampers.

   During the week, I had her act as my little guinea pig and we did some letter and spelling work on the Fall Spelling mats I created. This is one creation that I am so proud of! She enjoyed finding and matching the letters, so I knew it was a winner and I printed and laminated a set for my classroom! J

    

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More Ladybug Fun !

I love that I let my little munchkin pick the topic of study this week! Everyday she wanted to do something with ladybugs. It has definitely been a fun week.... 

One day, all she wanted to do was work with glue! So, that’s what she did!

Ladybug Shapes

She can name all her shapes but I always look for ways to reinforce shapes in every day activities. 

I made a ladybug body cutout and had her paste it together. On the wings, I had drawn some shape outlines and I gave her the shape cutouts to match and glue onto the wings.

 She went absolutely wild when I gave her glitter!

Ladybug Letter Sorting

We also worked on visual skills and letter sorting with a printable from the Letter of the Week curriculum.

Ladybug Painting Fun

One day, my little munchkin woke up and wanted to paint.

She picked red paint, grabbed some popsicle sticks and went right to work.

      Isn't  that a cute Ladybug?

 

Another painting project we did was with the letter L.

 She painted a letter L with watercolors and then took some ladybug stickers and put them on the L.

Mail Delivery!  (Ladybug Alphabet Puzzles)

When the package from Amazon.com came in on Tuesday afternoon, I  don’t know who was more excited: her or me!

We immediately ripped the box open to find our goodies and start playing! I gave her only a few of the ladybug puzzles so she wasn’t overwhelmed.

Soon, one of our guinea pigs, Mimi, decided to join in on the learning fun!

 I was cracking up as I watched my little munchkin interact and be the teacher and play school with Mimi.

Mimi was a perfect student and was paying attention very well!  LOL 

A+ for Mimi for the day! 

Ll is for Ladybugs!

It’s  Ladybug  Week!  

    I was planning to do some spring type activities with my little munchkin this week, but she had other ideas! She was looking at my Insect theme box & books that I had pulled out of the garage to do some lesson planning and when I asked her what she wanted to learn about and she said “Lady bugs!”

   So I switched gears and ladybugs it was. Thankfully I already had some ladybug stuff in my Insect theme box (books, mini bug erasers, bug toys) but that didn’t stop me from searching everywhere for new ideas and activities!

   I hit the jackpot on Amazon where I found a letter matching game in the shape of ladybugs, a ladybug notepad which I plan to use in several different ways and ladybug stickers… All from Carson Dellosa- one of my favorite places to order teacher stuff!  And thanks to my prime membership at Amazon, everything arrived quickly! 

 Then I strolled up and down the aisles at Michaels to find any ladybug thing that I could use this week. I found more stickers, wooden pieces and a ladybug stamper! And I found a very cute, very simple craft project for her to do.

Ll is for Ladybug

We started off the week by using some printables from Confessionsof a Homeschooler's Letter of the Week Curriculum, which is one of my favorite homeschooling blogs.

She wanted to do one thing after another. She was ready to go!

She worked on her coloring and cutting skills, a puzzle and a sizing game all within an hour and a half!!

Sorting

Later that day, I pulled out my big bag of mini erasers and she dumped them all out on the floor! I immediately turned it into a sorting activity and gave her some cupcake liners and showed her how to sort them.

She actually saved me the tedious task of having to pull out all the ladybug erasers to use as counters. 

Counting

And again, she was ready to work and started working on the Leaf/ Ladybug math mats I made just for her. It was a great way for her to practice her one to one counting!

More fun ladybug activities to come......