I created a new Kindergarten Plant Theme page. This is basically what we did for the past two weeks for science. My children learned all about planting seeds, what it takes to make a seed grow and toured the botanical gardens for a field trip.
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We just got this awesome DVD a couple of days ago and my kids love it! It engages the kids to learn all their alphabet letters and sounds with this catchy song:
The A says “aaaa”
The A says “aaaa”
Every letter makes a sound
The A says “aaaa”
My kids even walk around the house singing it.
The DVD is fun to watch over and over again because it has a lot of humor, interesting characters and is only 35 minutes. I highly suggest you buy this if you have a preschooler at home.
My kids are watching it for the third time today.
I will try the LeapFrog – Talking Words Factory next.
Today I was giving my son a math lesson on forming groups. Using counting bears, I asked him to form 5 groups of bears with 4 bears in each group. He struggled and we worked on it together on two seperate occassions. Then I asked him to do it by himself. That’s when he really struggled, but I knew he could do it. I pushed him and pushed him, and just when he was about to give up, I gave him the pep talk of his life.
3 minutes later he yelled, “Mommy, I did it!!” I came into the room and saw that my son created 5 groups of bears with 4 bears in each group, just like I asked him to. He was beeming with pride 😀 !!!
And to my surprise, he jumped up and said, “Mommy, I’m so proud of you for teaching me!! And I’m so happy I did it by myself!!” Then he gave me a really BIG HUG.
That was such a huge reward for me, I’ll have the motivation now to homeschool for the next 3 months.
I recently subscribed to Scholastic Printables and I love all the worksheets and features they have!!! If you haven’t heard of it, click the logo or follow the PROMO link below and look at the thousands of worksheets, lesson plans and activity pages they have. You can create your own custom worksheets and store up to 10MB of documents in your account file cabinet.
You have to be a teacher to subscribe to this service. No big deal! I signed up as a homeschooler and paid $39.99 for one year. I spend a lot less time searching the internet for worksheets now and more time planning my lessons.
Here’s a special PROMO link I was sent from Scholastic that will give you 500 Scholastic Book Club Bonus Points for signing up.
FYI- I will be sharing some of the worksheets I find and create on this blog.
