Moments to Remember...

I love this idea from Homeschool Creations and 1+1+1=1!

There are lots of reasons we love to homeschool,

but the time we get together in fellowship is top of the list. 

What a fantastic way to  put all of those special moments in one place!

My first list here is a bit long, just couldn't help myself...

Why we love  homeschool

and the moments we want to remember..

You get to have school with your kitty…

You get to have your big brother read to you…

You get to learn about Jesus, everyday…

You get to twirl in your TuTu,

 and dance with your big brother,

 who is having a pajama day…again…

You can have school at your great-grandparents house,

and learn about what school was like for them…

You get to learn about mixing colors by making frosting for your Christmas cookies…

You get to go on lots of fun field trips with your family…

You get to do fun science experiments, with your Dad….

Your mom lets you find and catch as many

 giant grasshoppers

 as you can find, all in the name of science…

Your awesome Uncle takes you rock climbing,

 in the middle of the day,

 because you’re not in school…

Your birthday is declared a National Holiday,

and no school work is permitted….

You get to have lunch with other homeschoolers,

 in your best party-wear…

In late August, when other kids are behind desks at school,

 you get to play in the pool,

with your homeschool friends…

You get to teach your baby sister how to ride a trike…

You can have movie night in the middle of the week,

 since you don’t have to get up early…

You get to spend lots of time with your siblings, getting dirty…

After your history lesson,

 you can take your mom outside to show her

your new cool move on your scooter..

Your brother helps you clean up a mess you made…

Your mom takes a BILLION pictures of you,

 all day…and you always smile…

Math is fun because your mom lets you play and build with Cuisenaire Rods…

You can play T-ball in your pink cowboy boots,

and no one will even laugh at you…

You can get advice from your baby sister, or vice-versa…

You and your brother get lots of time together,

doing things like a big floor puzzle…

When you’re invited to hang out at Focus on The Family,

you and your friends get to do the sound effects

 for a recording of an Adventures in Odyssey story….

You get to jam to music…all day…

Posh Princess Preschool - Letter Hh

Hh is for:  HORSE, HIPPOPOTAMUS, HOUSE

Hh for Hippopotamus from Confessions of a Homeschooler...

Priddy Book Wipe Clean Flash Card…

Play-doh page and letter H cookie cutter from this set:

Letter h magnet page from Making Learning Fun. 

This week we used pennies to fill it in.

She is really enjoying our Follow-the-Dots Stamps…

And she is still using our Purpllinker with each new letter..

Here is a fun new count and sort activity I found this summer for her. 

She sorted the small houses by color first. 

This was a great chance to go over beginning sounds in the color words. 

 She also looked through the color words for letters she recognized.

After that she sorted out these disks by color and number. 

She needed a little help with a couple of numbers,

 but has really improved in her number recognition skills!

She spent a lot of time this week, coloring horses (her favorite animal!)

Here is her letter of the week craft: H for horse.

She has been working through the workbook

  Hands-On Thinking Skills, which we love. 

This book has great pre-math concepts such as:  forming/following sequences and patterns,

classifying objects and groups, finding similarities and differences.

We use a few different sets of manipulative's including interlocking cubes,

pattern blocks, and attribute blocks.

We are still loving our Now I'm Reading A-Z books.

Here is a fun sticker activity with horses. 

She played with this for hours this week!

My Grandmother gave me this wonderful doll/puppet set to go along with

 “There Was An Old Lady”. 

 I really treasure this because it was something I remember her doing with me as a child. 

The kids all love it too, and we all get quite animated

when we sing the song/tell the story!

These are the letter tile cards that go along with the story. 

 We used scrabble pieces this time. 

 She needed a lot of help with this activity because it was

 transferring upper and lower case letters to each other. 

 She eventually gave up and just used dry erase marker to go over the words.

Still doing her Kumon maze book…

Building a house from our Shape Shuffle set…

And a fun build-as-you-go puzzle….

Hh: Smallest object and Hh letter hunt worksheets.

For Fun Friday we played Hip Hip Hooray! 

which is a new family favorite. 

It mixes charades, drawing, trivia, and action questions. 

 Lots of fun!