Quick as a Cricket This week we’ve been learning all about farms from the “Farms are Filled with Food and Animal Families” Thematic Unit, and Quick as a Cricket was our favorite. I loved the lesson plans for read aloud activities, music and movement activities, small group activities (which we used differently from the prescribed…
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Category: Pre-K
PreK Week 8 Mouse Paint How can one book be used to teach so many different skills and subject areas, especially one as fun as Mouse Paint? From reading and art to social studies, science, math, music and writing, this week we did lots of learning with Mouse Paint. The activity I want to highlight…
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PreK Week 7 Dinosaur Roar What is it that makes all little boys love dinosaurs? I have no idea, but this book sure made my little boy happy this week. There was all kinds of dinosaur fun for reading, language arts, science, art, math, music, and writing, along with the golden award too! The activity…
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Mice are Nice “Real mice aren’t really nice” was the first thought that came to mind when I started this week’s Guided Lesson for Mice are Nice, but the mice in this story were really nice, and we had fun this week with the book and all of the activities in the Guided Lesson. The…
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Halloween I wonder if all kids love the idea of Halloween as much as my little boys do. They love to dress up all year long in various costumes and pretend to be random heroes or villains taking over the backyard for the day, but they really love it when October 31 comes around and…
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The Cake that Mack Ate This week was all about cake, and my little Malachi just so happens to LOVE cake (as I imagine most 4-year-olds do). Not only was The Cake that Mack Ate super funny to read each day, but thanks to the Guided Lesson, we were able to learn a lot about…
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I Want to be a Teacher This week we learned all about what teachers do, and it was so fun to talk about teachers at school and teachers at home, Pre-K teachers, music teachers, art teachers, math teachers, and even teachers at universities and beyond. My little Malachi couldn’t believe that I was a teacher…
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Baa Baa Black Sheep Our family had so much fun this week at the start of Pre-K with Baa Baa Black Sheep! Not only was my youngest so excited to finally start “real school” like his big brother, but he was so happy to already know a little bit about his first AlphaSkills book…
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We are the Orr family – a homeschooling family of four traveling year-round in our Airstream with a plan to see the entire US and Canada over the next 5 years, and we love AlphaSkills! As of the 2016-2017 school year our oldest son Elijah is 11 years old in the 6th grade, and he has…
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