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Christmas Tree Countdown

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I know I’m a day late in posting this, but I wanted to show how simple it is to integrate writing, math, crafts, and seasonal fun into one lesson! We created a Christmas Tree Countdown (similar to an Advent calendar) like we did last year. This photo is from last year’s tree. ALuv was able to write ALL the numbers…
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Working on Blends

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One day in the van, ALuv asked, “Mommy, do skunk and skateboard rhyme?”  Wondering where he was going with this (because he’s known how to rhyme for a couple of years now), I questioned, “What do you mean?” “Listen, mommy.  /sk/ /sk/ skunk and /sk/ /sk/ skateboard.” I realized he was hearing the s-k blend at the beginning of both…
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Thanksgiving Fun: Our Week of No School!

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We took the entire week of Thanksgiving off.   What a needed break (for the kids & me)!  Daddy took the week off from, so we had plenty of daddy time.  Besides stuffing our faces with turkey and spending lots of time with family, here are some fun things my kids did this past week (I didn’t have the camera to…
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V is for Vehicles

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In all the shuffle, I forgot to post a few weeks ago what we did with the letter V.  I went with V is for VEHICLES because I knew NJoy would love the theme.  I’ll warn you that we did A LOT with this theme.  I was able to integrate a few preschool packs relating to transportation and had my…
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Our Week of Thanksgiving

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This past week, NJoy took a retreat from his usual “letter of the week” and just focused on Thanksgiving.  The theme was integrated into some of ALuv’s schoolwork, too.  (If you missed these recent Thanksgiving posts, they were Thanksgiving tangrams, Colonial Day learning, Thanksgiving Do-a-Dot Mosaics, and A Poem of Thanksgiving.) It wasn’t the heaviest week of schoolwork for NJoy. …
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