Egg Sort

By chance, I found a bag of three different sizes of eggs. Then I made three labels: small, medium, and large on card stock. Caroline and I sorted a couple of eggs together and then she decided, "I do it myself."

Once she finished her sort, we wrote our findings in her journal. So I drew three columns and labeled them: small, medium, and large, and then I drew the number of eggs in each of the columns and wrote the number of eggs. Caroline then colored the eggs in and traced the numbers.

Her journal work changes everyday. She is so happy to have it! On Saturday and Sunday, she asks to do "her work."

Plastic Easter Eggs

From various blogs, I saw many different ways to use plastic Easter Eggs. I wrote Caroline's name on the plastic egg with the capital letter on top and the lower case on the bottom. I opened the carton and we looked at the eggs. Then I took them all apart and she had to match the capital and lower case letters. Also, "F" and "B" we added to the carton. She was really upset that she was missing two eggs, so the next lesson, I will add "S" and "P."

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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