Our Homeschooling Expedition

Aug. 17, 2007

Games Unit

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Games Unit

Books:

Piggies by Audrey Wood

Play Ball with Me by Lynn Reiser

This little piggy: lap songs, finger plays, clapping games, and pantomime rhymes by Jane Yolen

Come out and play by Maya Ajmera

Follow the Leader by Emma Chichester Clark

Ella’s Games by David Bedford

Little Quack’s Hide and Seek by Lauren Thompson

This week we will study games, the letter Gg, the color black, the rectangle shape, and writing, counting to 15.

Letter G Activities:

G tracer paper

http://www.first-school.ws/t/alpha_tracers_zb1/g.htm

Letter G worksheet and mini book

http://www.first-school.ws/theme/alphabetp2.htm

G tracer paper

Letter G maze

http://www.schoolexpress.com/fws/get_image.php?id=54784

Trace the letter G worksheet

http://www.schoolexpress.com/fws/get_image.php?id=54503

Trace the letter G

http://www.schoolexpress.com/fws/get_image.php?id=54504

Magic G – you’ll need white paper, white candle, water color paint, paint brushes, cup of water.

Before giving the child the paper print the letter G on the paper using the candle, without the child seeing. Then let the child paint the whole paper using the watercolors. They should see the magic Gg appear.

Glitter G

Print out the G template. Cut it out and let them trace it onto a piece of construction paper. Then let them decorate it with glue and glitter.

Garden of G’s – you’ll need construction paper, scissors, and glue.

Cut out grass from construction paper and several g’s. Then let them glue the bottom part of the grass to a large sheet of construction paper. Have them glue stems (you could use straws, pipe cleaners or construction paper for the stems) and leaves to the letter g’s. Then they can glue these into the grass.

Game Piece G

You know all those odd and end game pieces you have laying around the house or am I the only one with those? LOL I thought I’d gather those up and a nice sturdy piece of cardboard. I will cut a large G out of the cardboard and let him paint it. Then let him glue all those wonderful odds and ends onto the G.

Stencil G’s

I have a G stencil and I’m going to let him use it to paint G’s on a poster board. Then we’ll cut G’s out of a magazine and glue them on the same paper. To make a 2 dimensional G collage.

Color Black Activities:

Make a bat necklace.

http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/batcrafts/l/blnoodbat.htm

Make a black cat hand puppet

You could make a checkerboard. Let them paint the squares that should be black. You can make checkers out of clay and then they could paint those when dry.

Cut out varying sizes of rectangles from black construction paper. Have the child glue them on a different color of construction paper to make a silhouette of a city landscape.

Things that are black worksheet

http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/colors/colors-black1.htm

Make a black panther

http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mcircle_blackpanther.htm

Make a clothes pin bat – scroll to about middle of page

Barry Black color buddy

http://www.dltk-teach.com/colors/mblack.htm

Shape Activities:

Rectangle worksheet

http://www.schoolexpress.com/fws/get_image.php?id=55536

Color all the rectangles

http://www.schoolexpress.com/fws/get_image.php?id=55538

I will have him practice making rectangles on his geoboard.

Make rectangle shaped bean bags for playing games.

http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/easysewin1/l/blbeanbag.htm

Make a rectangle shaped puzzle picture frame

http://www.creativekidsathome.com/activities/activity_21.html

Rectangle tracer paper

Finish drawing and coloring the train

http://www.akidsheart.com/threer/lvl1/rectdraw1.htm

Straw rectangles – you’ll need black construction paper, glue, straws, and scissors.

Have the child make rectangles by gluing the straws onto to the construction paper. You’ll need to cut several straws in half for the short sides of rectangles.

Robbie Rectangle shape buddy

http://www.dltk-teach.com/shapes/mrectangle.htm

Rectangle shape buddy worksheet

http://www.dltk-teach.com/shapes/worksheets.htm

Trace the rectangles worksheet

Trace the rectangles

Trace the rectangles and ovals

Give them a baggie of legos. Make sure there are a variety of shapes in the bag. Then have the child sort out the ones that are the shape of a rectangle. Then let them see what they can make with just the rectangle pieces.

Counting Activities:

Cut out pictures of different foods from ads or coupons and paste them on an Index card. Make them look like playing cards by writing the name (and/or food group) on the top and bottom of the picture. You can use these cards in many, many different ways. Some ideas are:

Go Fish (Using Food Groups)

Concentration

Sorting

Making Picture Grocery List

Domino Math printable game

Paper Fortune teller – Instead of having them spell out colors add more numbers for them to count out.

http://www.creativekidsathome.com/activities/activity_34.html

Play a game of Skip-o (covers counting up to 12)

Play Goldfish with the numbers from a deck of cards. Helps with number recognition.

Number 10 worksheet

Numbers 11-15 worksheet

Number match worksheet

http://www.tlsbooks.com/numbermatch.pdf

Make a custom tracer paper

http://www.kidzone.ws/tracers/none/tracer-form.asp

Write the numbers 12-15 on construction paper and then let them glue puzzle pieces on the construction paper. (You can get 100 piece puzzles from the Dollar tree if you don’t have misc. puzzle pieces.)

Science and Art Activities:

Nature Scavenger Hunt: Make a list of 15 small nature items for the kids to find. You can use pictures of the objects if you wish. Make sure to have items that they will be able to find in the location you are at.

Blow it up

http://www.funology.com/laboratory/lab009.htm

Why not make some paper dolls

http://www.ss42.com/paperdolls.html

Make your own game

http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/gameboard.htm

Homemade horseshoe game

Black Magic – explore the color black