Letter Ff

Here are our Ff workboxes.

Feathers: arrange feathers in parm cheese container.

Fingerprints: use ink to make fingerprints on an index card and examine with a magnifying glass.

Food: cut out pictures of food out of a weekly add.

Tt Table Top Toys

This is another week that had a ton the table top toys that go with the letter of the week, which is Tt.

Here is Lyssy weighing teddy bears, as you can see she also decided to do a few other things with them.

Putting toothpicks in a parmesean shaker is great for fine motor skills.

We also had tracing. Aidman made this great truck.

I had all these shapes ready for the kiddos to trace.

Tracing has been Lyssy's favorite table top activity this week.

I also put out triangles and glue to make art with.

We counted to Two, Ten, Twelve, and Twenty with toothpicks.

Here is Aidman "blowing out the candles".

Lyssy is tonging teddy bears.

Ff Table Top Toys

This past weeks table top toys went perfectly with the letter Ff. As you can see, the items that I add to my "table top toy" bins are not always used at the little table, sometimes we bring them to the floor or to the big table. I really should come up with a better name for them, I could always go with activity tray (except they are not on a tray, more like in a bin, activity bins) or workboxes (except I don't change them out everyday like most people, more like every 3 days). I guess what we call it now is best since most of the time it's at the table.

Here Lyssy is doing Farm animal patterns with pattern cards, she also made patterns without the cards (which I like doing better).

Here Aidman is counting with farm animals. This activity can be done with anything, we used farm animals because we had them. I printed out these number cards and they placed the correct number of items on it.

We did more counting with Ff numbers. We placed the correct amount of marbles on each number 4, 5, 14, 15.

We also did flower lacing. I took silk flowers and separated them from the stems. They laced the flowers and some beads onto pipecleaners. They made tons of bracelets with them!

Not pictured:

-I printed out farm and forest animal cards and let the kids color them and then play memory and matching with them.

-Farm Puzzles, we have one large floor farm puzzle and several normal size puzzles that they did.

I just now thought of and Wish I would have done:

Funnels! It would have been great pouring fun to use the funnels at our table top toys. Now that I have the idea I MUST use it in the next few weeks!

Zoo Races

"On Your Markit, Get Set, GO!!!" I LOVE watching my kids play when they think no one is around.

Zz Week

We are going to have a Zany and Zippy Zz Week!!

Art:
-Zig Zag Zz
-Paint Zebra stripes

Science:
-Plant Zinnias
-Zoo, we can't go because it field trip month and it will be crazy, but the kiddos just went a couple months ago so we will make a book out of the Zoo animal pictures.

Math:
-Ziploc number bags

Cooking:
-Baked Ziti
-Zucchini
-Zoo snack- paint animal crackers with royal icing mixed with food coloring

Movement/Outside:
-Zoom across yard

Social Studies:
-Locate Zepherhills, FL on our map and take a drive there

Bible:
-Zacchaeus

Table Top Toys:
-Zoo Animals
-Rulers and paper
-Gluing together wood shaped to make into magnets

Zz words: (not above)
zero
zipper
zippity
Zimbabwe
Zhob River
Zaire
Zambia
Zorro
Zap
Zephyrosaurus
zone
zither
zipptydeedoda

Yellow Yarn Yy and Unplugged

I have been wanting to do an Unplugged Project for awhile now. Today when I saw that the theme was yellow, I thought it was just perfect because we did several yellow things for the letter Yy today.

We cut yellow yarn. It was kinda hard with kiddie scissors, so mommy did most of the cutting.

Then we glued Yellow Yarn to a Yy.

YAY, a Yellow Yy!

For our Table Top Toys this week I put out water transfer. Because it is Yy week, I added yellow food coloring the the water.

The kiddos are really enjoying squeezing out the sponge.

Nn Lessons

This week's letter is Nn. It doesn't look like much for Nn because it's also Easter this week and we'll be doing alot of Easter related things.

Art:
-Glue Newspaper on Nn
-Hammer Nails into wood
-Make Noodle Necklaces

Science:
-Make a Nest
-Enjoy the Night sky

Math:
-Count and sort Nickles
-Phone Number practice
-Count to Nine

Cooking:
-Nachos
-Noodles

Movement/Outside:
-Go on a Nature walk

Table Top Toys throughout week: (not all Nn words)
-Soda Bottle baskets
-Easter Puzzles
-Bingo Dobber on Phone Number
-Egg Graphing
-Lacing with Needle
-Watercolor Eggs

Books:
Nursery Rhymes
The Best Nest

Other Nn words:
nose
noisy
nurse
napkin
note
Nursery Rhyme
Noah's Ark
neighbor
needle
nice
nap
name
neck

Table Top Toys

I LOVE to cook. While cooking and cleaning up from 3 meals and day, my kiddos want to be around me. I try to get them busy in their rooms playing, reading, or even doing a fun project, but often find them getting under my feet in the kitchen. It was starting to drive me crazy! I had this little table that I decided to put in the corner of my kitchen. At first I just put their journals and some writing materials on the table, but that quickly turned into a table covered with toys.

So I brought one of my organizers and put it next to the table. I always put the journals on top and add some learning toys (or things that need some supervision) in the drawers. I have been so inspired by My Montessori Journey

and just love some of the activities that she does. Not to mention that most of them are rather easy to put together. So most of what goes into the drawers are ideas inspired by her.

This weeks letter is Pp and it just so happened that I have alot of things that go with the letter Pp so I decided to put them in the table top area.

Pouring with a Pitcher.

Journal and markers.

Sorting Pompoms by color with tweezers.

And Pie math. The point of this activity is counting, number recognition, and figuring out how to position the pie slices.

I change out the activities after about 4 days because it starts to loose it's newness after that. I also don't pressure myself into making or coming up with elaborate things to go into this area, sometimes it's just blocks and because the blocks are now on the table and not in the bedroom it adds a fun newness to it. I also like to add different art supplies to the drawers so that they can have more free art time. I do make sure to explain how to use each new item as I put them in the drawers.

We have had this table top/organizer up for over a month now and my kids just LOVE this area! I do too because it keeps them busy while I'm busy in the kitchen and I don't have to feel bad about doing my chores since they are having fun.