Lent

The season of Lent is a time to embrase what is means to be a Christian. This morning the kids and I made it to mass for Ash Wednesday. Devon is really into her book of Common Prayer and trying to understand how to use it in the services.

After the service, we watched a Holy Heros video. The kids enjoyed the video, because it is produced by kids.

Next, we made Lent Calendars for coloring one day at a time for the 40 days from Catholicicing.com for each child.

From Catholic Icing, I found the idea of resurrection eggs. You place together items and read the bible verse that goes with that item.

Here are some other great ideas

Lap book

Catholic Icing. com

Jellybean prayer

Easter Cookies: make these the night before Easter. The recipe has a story to go along with it.

Catholic Mom.com

FYI-from reading this blog, you may think I am Catholic, however we are and an Anglican family.

Letter Recognition

Caroline has started to ask, "How do I draw you name? How do I draw sister's name?" and so forth. So, I got her her own homework book, "Get Ready for the Code: Book A." This book starts with the letter "F." We are not "running" through the book, but using as a guide to do other fun activities. The picture below of the letter "f" comes from an activity found on MamaJenn.

This is another "f" made from foam stickers.

Other great sites:

DLTK Printables

Homeschool Creations

Puzzles

Caroline loves to put together puzzles. She is able to complete 24-piece puzzles independently and she is so proud.

Playdoughs Mats

Homeschool Creations has FREE printable play dough mats for learning the numbers and its amounts. This is grape playdough made with Kool Aide and the recipe is found on this site.

Fine Motor Skills and Montessori

Fine Motor Skills and Montessori

This is one activity to increase fine motor skills. The tongs are sugar tongs, the tray is a kiddie food tray, beads are pony beads, and the star and fish are soap holders flipped over.


You can see Caroline is enjoying her work! Once she had finished placing the pony beads onto the star and fish, she must place all the beads back into the container and return the tray to its place.
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Contractions

A contraction is a shortened form of one or two words (one of which is usually a verb). In a contraction, an apostrophe takes the place of the missing letter or letters.

Songs and Videos for learning contractions:

Ms. Jenny's Contraction song

The Electric Company N Apostrophe T

Contractions have an Apostrophe

Contaction Cards to play matching or memory.