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Welcome back to Latticed Learning! This year, we're continuing to learn while we play - repeating many of our favorites from the past while adding in all sorts of new activities as well.
This day's post is devoted to our weekly themes - some weeks have more activities than others, but each lesson will be fun for you to explore with your little one!
Read All About It
Here were just a few of our favorites:
Timothy Goes to School
Am I the only one who can relate to this book? There would be some new trend at school, and by the time I got whatever it was from someplace cheap like the flea market or my mom made me that shirt in the latest style, everyone had moved on to something else.
The Blue Balloon
It's fun to see what this blue balloon will do on each page, but we especially love the unusual fold-outs it has - they're really unique!
Splat the Cat
We love Russell the Sheep, so it makes sense that we'd love this other book by Rob Scotton. There are so many neat details for an observant mom or dad to pick up on in the illustrations and Splat learns that not only can school be fun, but he has much to learn about being a cat.
Knuffle Bunny
I don't know what I love most about this book - the cool way the illustrations incorporate both photographs and drawings, or the hilarity of what can happen when embarking on a simple errand with a small child. I can tell you that my favorite part of the book is when Trixie goes "boneless," because some days it seems I live with the Jello-bone kid. Since I have a dear friend who lives in The Netherlands, I feel like I'm getting a hug from her every time we read this book (Knuffel means "hug" in Dutch), although I have to admit that I usually pronounce the word "nuffle" instead of what I know is the correct way of "Ka-Nuffle."
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten
As a former elementary school teacher, I love how this book shows all the craziness surrounding the first day of school from the teacher's perspective - I can't think of a single one of us who wasn't as frazzled as Miss Bindergarten is, leading up to those first few days!
Clifford's Class Trip
David Goes to School
If You Take a Mouse to School
Tiptoe into Kindergarten
Corduroy
Mrs. Toggle and the Dinosaur
Franklin Goes to School
Brand-new Pencils, Brand-new Books
We love The Berenstain Bears, both the books and the show. There were two episodes that were especially pertinent to this week: The Berenstain Bears Go to School and Trouble at School.
Gv also loves Daniel Tiger, so we watched Daniel Visits School, Daniel Goes to School, and Daniel Doesn't Want to Stop Playing.
We played with bubbles:
We went on a school supply search. (This wasn't anything fancy - I just let Gv explore all our supply boxes and then she'd ask, "What's that?" if she couldn't name the item. This was followed by experimenting with new tools such as hole punchers and brads, which of course was loads of fun.)
We did these activities to go along with Miss Bindergarten.
We made these backpacks to go along with our Froggy book.
We read Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse and then did some activities I'd had from my classroom (random worksheets I'd collected.) We also made a purple plastic purse and some movie star sunglasses (find a great template for these here.)
And finally, we played catch with a ball.
Whew! It was a busy week, but one full of fun!
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What's your favorite thing that we did this week? I'd love to hear! Either leave a comment below or email me at lisahealy (at) outlook (dot) com.
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Am I the only one who can relate to this book? There would be some new trend at school, and by the time I got whatever it was from someplace cheap like the flea market or my mom made me that shirt in the latest style, everyone had moved on to something else.
The Blue Balloon
It's fun to see what this blue balloon will do on each page, but we especially love the unusual fold-outs it has - they're really unique!
Splat the Cat
We love Russell the Sheep, so it makes sense that we'd love this other book by Rob Scotton. There are so many neat details for an observant mom or dad to pick up on in the illustrations and Splat learns that not only can school be fun, but he has much to learn about being a cat.
Knuffle Bunny
I don't know what I love most about this book - the cool way the illustrations incorporate both photographs and drawings, or the hilarity of what can happen when embarking on a simple errand with a small child. I can tell you that my favorite part of the book is when Trixie goes "boneless," because some days it seems I live with the Jello-bone kid. Since I have a dear friend who lives in The Netherlands, I feel like I'm getting a hug from her every time we read this book (Knuffel means "hug" in Dutch), although I have to admit that I usually pronounce the word "nuffle" instead of what I know is the correct way of "Ka-Nuffle."
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten
As a former elementary school teacher, I love how this book shows all the craziness surrounding the first day of school from the teacher's perspective - I can't think of a single one of us who wasn't as frazzled as Miss Bindergarten is, leading up to those first few days!
Other Great Books We Read
Froggy Goes to SchoolClifford's Class Trip
David Goes to School
If You Take a Mouse to School
Tiptoe into Kindergarten
Corduroy
Mrs. Toggle and the Dinosaur
Franklin Goes to School
Brand-new Pencils, Brand-new Books
Sing Some Songs
The topics of school, toys and playing are pretty broad, so it was easy to find plenty of music for this week. Here are just a couple ideas to get you started:
Eraser from the album I talked about here
I Want My Diploma from this album
The Bean Bag Song from this post
Where Do They Make Balloons? from this group's No! album
Play Day by this beautiful-voiced artist
I Want My Diploma from this album
The Bean Bag Song from this post
Where Do They Make Balloons? from this group's No! album
Play Day by this beautiful-voiced artist
And so many more, but I'll let you search through your own music collection to see what types of songs you can add to a playlist.
Watch Some Videos
We love The Berenstain Bears, both the books and the show. There were two episodes that were especially pertinent to this week: The Berenstain Bears Go to School and Trouble at School.
Gv also loves Daniel Tiger, so we watched Daniel Visits School, Daniel Goes to School, and Daniel Doesn't Want to Stop Playing.
Play and Create
We did a few activities to correspond to our week's topic:We played with bubbles:
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| She found the ruler! |
We did these activities to go along with Miss Bindergarten.
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| Can Craft |
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| Getting Ready for Kindergarten Craftivity |
We made these backpacks to go along with our Froggy book.
We read Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse and then did some activities I'd had from my classroom (random worksheets I'd collected.) We also made a purple plastic purse and some movie star sunglasses (find a great template for these here.)
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| Cut 2 pieces of purple construction paper to fit inside a plastic bag and then either use purple yarn or a pipe cleaner to make the purse strap. |
And finally, we played catch with a ball.
Whew! It was a busy week, but one full of fun!
Looking for all the great posts associated with this concept in one place? Check out my Latticed Learning page here!
What's your favorite thing that we did this week? I'd love to hear! Either leave a comment below or email me at lisahealy (at) outlook (dot) com.
Also, if you don't want to miss a single minute of great tips like this and all the fun around here, be sure to sign up for free updates and then look forward to having each post delivered straight to your inbox!
Linked up with: Favorite Things, Over the Moon, Share the Wealth Sunday, Dishing it & Digging it, What's for Dinner?, Family Joy Blog Link-Up, Literacy Musings Monday, Practical Mondays, Homeschool Nook Link Up, Happiness is Homemade, Merry Monday, Motivation Monday, What'd You Do This Weekend, Meet Up Monday, Totally Terrific Tuesday, Together on Tuesdays, Show Me Yours Linky, Tasty Tuesdays, Little Learning Link Up, Two Uses Tuesday, Hip Homeschool Hop, Lou Lou Girls Fabulous Party Tuesday Talk, Wonderful Wednesday, A Little Bird Told Me, Everything Early Childhood, Creative Muster, Party in Your PJs,What to Read,I Am Pinnable, Christian Bloggers Link Up, This Is How We Roll, Creative Ways, Hearts for Home, Creative Exchange, 100 Happy Days, Try It Like It, No Rules Weekend Blog Party, Tune in Thursdays, Booknificent Thursdays, Thursday Favorite Things, I'm Lovin' It, Inspiration Spotlight, Home Matters, Pretty Pintastic Party, Weekend Potluck, Awesome Life Friday, Creative Collection, The Beautifully Creative Inspired , Bloggers Pit Stop, Weekend Traffic Jam, Pin Me Party, From the Archives, Family Fun Friday, Friday Frivolity, Bloggers Spotlight, Make My Saturday Sweet, Weekend Wind-Down Party,Friday Features Linky, Funtastic Friday , Best of the Weekend, Sweet Inspiration Link Party, Small Victories Sunday, You're Invited, Love to Learn Tuesdays