Sep. 4, 2009 - Tot School -- Week 5
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Letter D week:
Monday:
- Pipe cleaners in Parmesan jar (hole side of jar)
- Dinosaur craft
- Cutting strips of paper
- Beanbag toss on exercise ball
- Handwriting Without Tears page
- ABC-123 page
Pictures from Monday:
He's so proud of his dinosaur craft. He had on a very appropriate shirt for this too 
This was his little buddy for the week, hanging out at his desk.
I tried to have my "helpers" take a picture of Peanut doing his beanbag toss. Unfortunately, my camera kept dying due to low batteries and my helpers couldn't get a picture fast enough. Oh well, next time we do this one I'll be sure to have fresh batteries! It's a great O.T. exercise. He lays on the ball, supporting himself with his arms (don't let those feet touch the ground!) He picks up a beanbag & tries to toss it into a rectangle shape I've taped on the floor. It's a great way to work on his shoulder stability/strength, which in turn greatly helps his hand strength. Of course, as with anything really fun like this, everyone had to take turns trying it out. Do you think I can count it as P.E.?
Tuesday:
- Dino stickers on letter D page
- Squeeze water from sponge using a garlic press
- Little Hands to Heaven--Letter Review page A - D
- Sea Foam critters shapes match
- Book on Tape
- Kumon Tracing Page
Pictures from Tuesday:
Great idea from Shanon's Tot School. It worked on both his coordination and his hand strength.
These shapes came with the foam letters I've been using. Great for working on that visual perception skill!
Wednesday:
- Jump to Letters game (same as jump to shapes game)
- Handwriting Without Tears page
- Math U See page
- string beads on coffee stirrer
Pictures from Wednesday:
Okay, so painters tape shows up much better than regular masking tape! Last week we did this game with shapes taped to the floor, this week it's letters. Let's just say this didn't go as smoothly as the shapes jumping game!
Man, this boy really needs a haircut!!
Combining the Handwriting Without Tears page with our pieces from the book "How to Build an A". The book comes with the foam pieces for about half the price of the same pieces(only wooden) from Handwriting Without Tears. He really enjoys being able to "build" his letters.
Thursday:
- Little Hands to Heaven Letter D page
- ABC-123 page
- Melissa & Doug word puzzles
- Button felt pieces together
Pictures from Thursday:
Friday:
- Dot paints
- Handwriting Without Tears page
- What's the missing number game
- File Folder game: Puppy matching (called it Dog Matching for D week)
- Color matching Ducks
Pictures from Friday:
We kept saying together, "D is for d, d, dots!"
Boy Peanut loved this! These are from our "Lucky Ducks" game. That game annoys me only because of the volume......meaning it's outrageously loud with no volume control! We just spread them around his desk instead. Each duck has a colored circle on the bottom. You have to match the duck to the correctly colored "nest". He played with this for a good long time, quacking all the way.
Okay, next week looks to be another review week. He seems to be having problems remembering the four letters we've worked on over the last few weeks. He has the letter A down well........and that's it. I'm not sure yet if it's his processing problems getting in the way or what, so we'll just do another week of review. It's going to be a long school year! Also, next week we get the results of the Neuropsych testing, and Peanut will (supposedly) get the testing from the Opthamalogist as well. By this time next week hopefully we'll know more about what's going on with Peanut. There may be changes in the way we are teaching him, maybe not. I'm just concentrating on putting my trust fully in whatever the Lord has in store for us. Who knows what next week will bring!
Comments
Sep. 6, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Anonymous
Good ideas!! I bet the letters will start to just click out of nowhere :) Thats whats so great about homeschooling. Instead of having to be on the same level as everyone else their age, they can go at their own pace. Because kids are so different. And i will pray for Peanuts testing <3
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