Review letters K-T

Faith is like a little seed.....                                      
We talked about faith and hope as we read Hebrews11:1.Afterwards we did the activity,or you could say it's a finger play,found here

This week is review week for us.We are going over K-T.We start this off by walking on letters with music.When the music stops they say what letter they are on and the sound.My 2 year old recognized a few!My Kindergartner practiced writing her letters.

We focused on letter K-M.As we read books they tried to find those letters.We read blue train,green train and Fire Truck by Peter Sis.These books were the favorite from our Transportation theme last week.We actually read for over an hour.

We noticed a lot of words ending in ck:

Here is what we foundTruck,clickety-clack,track,back, sack,stack,thick,and trick.

Review of letters N,O,P and Q

It's raining its pouring letters at our house.We are reviewed letters N,O,P and Q.For my Kindergartner we practiced writing the letters.For my Toddler we practiced tracing and saying the letters and their sounds.After we sang It's Raining I asked the kids if they wanted to see it rain.We did 2 experiments.First we put a plate on a jar of water and watched as it git foggy and wet inside.We talked about the water cycle. First Evaporation. Second is Condensation.   Third is Perspiration.Last is Collection.These words are hard for youngsters but repetition is important. If you have a Second or Third Grader they can practice their vocabulary and spelling of it.The link I used to teach the water cycle and the jar experiment is http://www.kidzone.ws/water/

The next experiment you take a clear container and fill it with water. Then you put shaving cream on top.Add blue food coloring and you have rain! I got the idea from Pinterest. 

Next we took white paper and my Kindergartner practiced cutting and we glued a blue strip to be the sky and one to be a river.Then they glued clouds on.I showed them how they could stretch the cotton.They drew rain and we talked about those big water cycle words again.We will be doing more with this picture tomorrow.

We let the baby who is almost three months now fee the cotton balls.

The Nursery Rhyme this week is Pat-a cake.After some time outside we sang Pat-a-cake.We rolled the babies arms and patted the pretend cake and I drew his first initial on his belly.The other two wanted to teach the baby.We also did their names too!

Here we are with play d'oh.We rolled it and patted it.We wrote their initials....

We even made the letters we are reviewing this week.

Next we put it in our magic oven

Letter P-We made it to the North Pole

We are finally here!It is cold and nothing but ice.We get lost easily without our gps.The ice is constantly moving.It is bright because the sun doesn't set.There is a good explanation about the sun and the earth and its rotation here

We took a dog sled,which was a blanket the kids sat on and I pulled them!

We stopped for a snack and a polar bear drink.

Here is our ice and tent of course the kids spent most of their time there.We also saw a Polar bear!The kids took turns hiding and finding him.They even had a shadow puppet show.That was the babies favorite part.He also has been enjoying his Nursery Rhyme Pop! Goes the weasel.When me or the kids say pop we clap or jump.Sometimes I lift him in the air!He loves the surprise!Time for these explorers to go to bed!I hope the polar bears aren't hungry.

Letter P-Pilot

We are on our way!Welcome to Rushton Air.We are on our way to Oslo,Norway.In real life this flight would be 12 in a half hours.Then you would spend the night there and fly 40 minutes to Slvbard Russia.Then there are many ways to get to the North Pole from there,but we will take a dog sled.The kids had their passports and tickets.The passport came with a credit card offer.Funny huh?My daughter designed the logo!At the end we counted plastic airplanes and sorted them by color.

We colored P for Pilots.We traced and wrote letter p's.They also colored an image seen from the plane,like clouds and mountains.I made this plane road with letter P and drive cars on it.We read books about planes.When traveling you need snacks and lots of activities.The more of these activities you can have in one book or quiet book.

We had our in flight snacks.