Letter M

Letter M is this week why because its "mine letter" Mason says and of course his favorite while we have been trying to practice writing it Mason would much rather do this activity....
Draw M&M type circles on paper and match m&m to its corresponding color we did lots of counting and eating as well.

I'll just do it myself

I'll just do it myself.....
After waiting too long for Chris to get around to drywalling an extra room we have in the basement I decided to make my own makeshift ghetto classroom. A rug and a sheet and some teaching aids and voila! I just wanted some place to "go to school" where we are not distracted by toys or t.v. I know its ghetto but it works:)

Race Track Colors

Trying to incorporate a little learning into our obession with cars and "mommy draw race track" So pretty simple just made several tracks differant colors and we tried to but blue cars on the blue track, pink cars on the pink track etc...

The Letter S

For Our Classroom this fall one long term project/goal we will be doing is working on a differant letter each week. The challenge will be coming up with fun projects that correspond with each letter to keep Mason's attention because the "S" worksheet was not cutting it. Here we just took biscuit dough shaped them into S shapes therefore hopefully teaching Mason how an S looks and how it should be written and then sprinkled cinnamon and sugar on them so they would taste yummy.
Why you ask did we start with S and not A well Mason decided by talking about snakes one day and I said snake starts with S etc....

World Word

World Word
I have to rave about how great this show is on PBS. Mason has learned so much about letters and the words they make I love that it is slow paced and age appropriate....there is some good T.V. out there.

Collage and.....school time

Today we worked with a large sticky (contact paper) canvas and explored the makings of a Collage by sticking a bucket full of random objects on the canvas...this kept Mason's attention for quite sometime. I am starting to make a collage as well in my mind that is...of all the things we want to do this fall in Our Classroom.

Color People

I got these great colored clothespins at a garage sale for .25 cents and sat down with Mason and drew faces on them. We called them Mr. Purple, Mr. Red, etc... We then obviously learned our colors this way but also worked on front and back and top and bottom and listening to instructions as I would say Mason put Mr. Red on the top and Mr. Yellow on the bottom. Or Mr. Blue goes in front and Mr. Purple in the back. Quick and easy activity that Mason seemed to enjoy.

Spray Painting

Filled spray bottles w/ a little paint and water got canvas piece of fabric and spray painted away!

Block Letter Painting

We are all about Letters this summer! I'm not pushing too much "school" right now but Mason is obsessed with the letters around him so I thought of a new way to work with them and have some fun. Just got out the paint and some of his letter blocks and paper. Mason wrote his name with them and then just stamped whatever letters he wanted to. We then made name tags for everyone in the family and I put them on our chairs at the table. I'm slowly working at having a print rich environment in our home to I can subtly teach him words and their associations.

Graphing

For Math today we did some Graphing with Snack Food! Our neighbor kids were visiting and wanted to get in on the fun. I just took random snacks from the cabinents put them on a plate and had the kids seperate them correctly on the chart. So we matched them in the correct columns, counted them and then of course ATE THEM! Which of course was the kids favorite part!

Porcupines

I know I know not a typical animal to learn about but Mason loves anything animal related to I printed some info from online and the following pictures out and we learned all about porcupines their quills, babies, etc.... Mason seemed pretty interested in it especially when we made one of our own with old mixed up play dough, sticks and googly eyes. Afterwards he crawled around pretending to poke me with his spiky quills!

MASON

Pretty Simple....went on a stick hunt then Mason helped me make the letters of his name by tying the together with string.

Butterfly

Just a simple project to keep Mason busy the other day! Paper towel roll, pipe cleaners and googley eyes. Mason kept busy flying it around our messy house!