Kindergarten Moments--Christmas through March 2010

We use Little Hearts for His Glory from Heart of Dakota for kindergarten. Here's what Moriah has been doing since Christmas!

1. Starting with Christmas...here's Moriah with a few of her presents:


2. Trip to Netherlands
I covered this earlier on a field trip post, but we went to Holland over the New Year. Moriah got to see windmills, visit the Corrie ten Boom house, light sparklers and eat oliebollen on New Year's Eve, and go ice skating (which she did enjoy after she got used to it!). Her favorite thing about Holland, however, was playing with her Dutch friend Raphaela!



3. Making bread


4. Dancing to the music


5. Boat art


6. Colors of the rainbow/Mixing colors


7. Pancake race and activities at Erddig


8. Field trip to York for Viking festival--top right picture, she's making a bracelet.


9. Why we can't see stars during the day demonstration...


10. Trampoline

Even in the snow...


11. Dramatizing a Bible story with blocks and toy figures


12. Trip to Conwy Castle


13. Trip to London


14. Bear Counters Addition


And again, here:


15. Sweet/Salty Tasting


16. Moriah reading from Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons--she's almost to the end! I taught Isaac to read using the same book.


17. Literature activity/foot drawing


18. Addition stories using train cars from Isaac's Thomas collection.


19. Native American playset (for history)


20. Bowling:


21. Math with Cheerios--how many ways are there to make 9?


Since I did this with Gabriela on my last Tot School post, I'll include Moriah's daffodil pictures too...Happy Spring!

March 2010, age 5


March 2009, age 4


March 2008, age 3


March 2007, age 2


March 2006, age 1


March 2005, age 8 months

What's On Our Book Rack? Springtime Reading

I finally got around to changing the books on our book rack. I really don't have any Easter books here in England (they're all in storage in Missouri). I do have one tiny book about the Resurrection of Jesus, and the rest of these are spring-themed books.





Also in our book rack right now (but not available for the Amazon carousel) are:
Bella's Secret Garden by Anne Carter (a rabbit story)
Happy Easter! by Sarah Mayers and Helen Gale (Scripture Union, pub.)
Puddle Wonderful: Poems to Welcome Spring selected by Bobbi Katz
Let's Look at Seasons: Springtime by Ann Schweninger
When the Wind Blows by Amy and Richard Hutchings
Spring Changes by Ellen B. Senisi
Weather by Melissa Getzoff

Tot School: Week 20

Ahhh, this week's tot school post is much shorter than last week's! Anyway, here's what Gabriela was up to this past week (aside from begging constantly to watch "Maisy" videos):

1. She loves doing ballet! When I put her in this outfit, she looked down at her stripey stockings and said, "Ballet!" When we went downstairs, she promptly brought me the ballet DVD.



2. Maisy coloring. This girl is Maisy-crazy (rhyme not intended but sounds cool)! We have 3 Maisy videos, and she would watch them all day if I would let her. The begging starts first thing, so to get her into "school" mode, I quickly looked up a Maisy color sheet on the internet and printed it off. You can find loads of them at Maisy's Fun Club.


If you're not familiar with Maisy (she's from England but popular worldwide), here's a video: (Unlike this clip, our videos have British accents!)


3. Spooning green deco pebbles (green for St. Pat's Day of course)


As you can see, she eventually found dumping easier (or more fun) than spooning!


4. Bear counters. We worked on sorting by color and size, and we made families of bears (discussing big, medium, and small).


5. Fisher Price Laugh and Learn Say Please Tea Set:




6. Bingo dabber art for St. Patrick's Day. These came from DLTK.



7. Coloring the Letter G. We didn't do very much with the letter G this week, so we'll work on it more later. She is doing very well remembering the letters she's learned so far! She didn't spend too much time coloring this; instead, she decided to draw spiders!



8. LAURI Butterfly Puzzle


9. Playing the xylophone


10. Doodle board


I just had to include these daffodil pictures since it's spring now! Greg has been taking an annual (March) picture of the girls with a daffodil since Moriah was a baby. Here's Gabriela's yearly daffodil pictures:

March 2010


March 2009


March 2008


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