Day 1 Find r stickers and put on R Color and assemble Letter R Book Go to library and get r books Put out R words (refrigerator, roof…I highly recommend using masking or painting tape so nothing is ruined when you pull it off) Starfall computer activity Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Day…
Letter of the Week – Letter Q
Day 1 Find q stickers and put on Q Color and assemble Letter Q Book Go to library and get q books Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Day 2 Fill in Q Outline and q Outline with: quilt pieces and question marks (Other options: q-tips, queens, quarter rubbings) Talked about quintuplets — #5,…
Letter of the Week – Letter P
Day 1 Find p stickers and put on P Color and assemble Letter P Book Go to library and get p books Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew We started reading Mr. Popper’s Penguins. She asked for an activity with it, so I quickly made her a themed bath for it. I cut up…
Letter of the Week – Letter O
Day 1 Find o stickers and put on O Color and assemble Letter O Book Go to library and get o books Play around with oil pastels on a paper Put out O words (oven…I highly recommend using masking or painting tape so nothing is ruined when you pull it off) Video: Olive and the…
Letter of the Week – Letter N
Day 1 Find n stickers and put on N Color and assemble Letter N book Go to library and get N books Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Nachos for dinner Day 2 Fill in N Outline and n Outline with: drew noses and nines (Other options: newspaper, nickel rubbing, numbers, noses, noodles) Near…
Camping
There was a camping trip planned with our church, and I was five months pregnant and sick…every day!!! So, I decided to not go camping with my daughter and husband. And, although it was almost as much work planning and packing, it was definitely nice to have a little break while they were gone. The…
Letter of the Week – Letter M
Day 1 Find m stickers and put on M (I post little stickers around a room and she puts them on the letter so the stickers end up looking like the letter.) Color and assemble Letter M book Go to library and get M books Gather up any toys (animals are especially great for this)…
Letter of the Week – Letter L
This week was a busy one for me. Not that I did anything, but there was a lot of baby caring for and less letter L caring about. 🙂 Day 1 Find l stickers and put on L Color and assemble Letter L Book (I only printed off three image pages) Go to library and get L…
Letter of the Week – Letter K
Day 1 Find k stickers and put on K Color and assemble Letter K book (I only printed off three that I thought she’d like.) Go to library and get K books (finally actually went to the library, instead of using our own books…yay, for finally knowing how much time I’ve got between naps. 🙂 )…
Letter of the Week – Letter J
Day 1 Find “J” and “j” stickers and put on a J Color and assemble Letter J book (I only use three pages.) Went through our library and got j books Activity sheet 1 Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Day 2 Fill in J Outline and j Outline with: She has started doing them without…
South African Safari Photos (Pilanesberg National Park)
Here are a photos from the spring in Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa. Find a list of historical fiction set in Africa here. These photos are published under a creative commons license (CC BY-SA 4.0). If it seems like the photo isn’t downloading at a res you’d like, please leave a comment with the number of…
Dachau Concentration Camp Photos
Here are images taken by me at Dachau Concentration Camp in 2008. I put them in order of entering the camp, turning left and going clockwise around the site. Go here for information about each area. Here’s a map of the camp. Find a list of historical fiction related to the Holocaust here. These photos are…