School Time With My Father's World : Unit 6- Tt Turtle

Unit 6- Tt Turtle

Words to Remember: I don't quit! I persevere! 

(Here is another school time post that I didn't post when we were done with the unit. We have been finished with Tt:Turtle for a few weeks now as we have been working on Unit 7-Uu:Us. But I wanted to share what we did for T, so here you go)

We are back on track with our My Father's World lessons after all the holiday stuff and a week of snowmen activities. And this lesson couldn't have come at a better time. There have been days when I have been so overwhelmed that I just want to give up. Then those words to remember pop into my head and I repeat them over and over and over to myself.
I have gotten us into a bit of a different schedule and am trying my darnedest to stick to it. When the girls finish their breakfast and their after breakfast chores are done they are able to take turns alternating between the WiiFit Plus (their physical education time, right?) and coloring a topic related coloring sheet.

For the past 2 weeks we have been focusing on the letter Tt and the topic was Turtle. The girls had lots of turtle coloring pages to color during their after breakfast coloring time.

On the WiiFit Plus they enjoy the Tight Rope,

and the Obstacle Course. This past week Amelia finally completed the beginner course all by herself; she was soooo happy. And what really touched my heart was that her sister was genuinely thrilled for her. 

When I am done cleaning up from breakfast I get our lesson ready. I then nurse the baby while we do our "circle" time, which consists of prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Pledge to the Bible, the B-I-B-L-E song, and our calendar/weather time. We then move onto our letter.

On day 1 Tabitha shows the word cards, sounding them out (or Amelia can try sounding them out) and Hannah finds the matching picture card to put on our poster.

On day 2 I show the word cards and have the girls take the picture cards off the poster.

On day 3 I write the word on the chalkboard and have the girls put the picture cards on the poster. They can try to guess which word I am writing as I go.

On day 4 we play a game with the picture cards. I lay out 3-6 of the cards and have them close their eyes while I take away a card, they have to figure out which card is missing. Even Hannah has been getting some of them.

On day 5 Hannah picks a card and Tabitha and Amelia take turns trying to write the word on the chalkboard by sounding it out. Hannah then puts the picture card on the poster. They also take turns erasing the word by using a wet paper towel to trace over the letters.

Usually on Monday we have a muffin tin. Well, for our Turtle lesson I couldn't quite fit what I wanted to do in a muffin tin. So I made them this Tortoise and the Hare meal on a plate.

I am not sure how I came across this website, http://twistynoodle.com/ (it was probably when searching for turtle images to color), but I thought it was a great site. They have pictures to print out and they have some words underneath to trace. The great thing about it is that you can customize it and change the words. So I changed "Turtle" to have the girls write their words to remember, I don't quite, I persevere.

As Hannah already had colored a turtle picture, I didn't want to give her another one right this moment, so I gave her some big Ts to trace.

Then we started our paper plate turtles. We made these a couple of years ago when we did the letter T. We probably would have made them again anyway, but being the craft for My Father's World they were sort of a definite. 

The girls each painted the bottom of 2 paper plates green.  These are the turtle's carapace and plastron.

And Harold sat at the table snacking

When they were dry (on a different day) I had them cut out legs, head and a tail. Then I stapled them together and they glued some shapes on the shell.

We discussed how a God gave a turtle a great defense mechanism where they are able to scrunch up into their shell and hide. I had the girls draw some different animals and insects on the board, then we said whether the turtle would eat it or hide from it.

The turtles had to watch The Tortoise and the Hare episode of Super Why! with the girls.

We also painted Toilet Paper tubes as a part of the Flowering Baby lesson for Hannah that week. These toilet paper tubes would become candlesticks for Jack Be Nimble. You can check out my review of Flowering Baby, LLC here.

And Harold was again eating a snack. At least it keeps him happy.

Here they are jumping over the candlesticks after they were complete.

In honor of our letter T, I made Tater Tot Casserole (it was my new recipe for Chicken Broccoli Tater Tot Casserole).

In addition to the Flowering Baby curriculum, Hannah has been busy learning her colors,

and working on matching letter magnets.

And Harold has been busy building 2-block towers.

We also read some fun books with our T Unit:

(And the girls acted out The Tortoise and the Hare repeatedly as a part of SongSchool Spanish. You can see this newest Schoolhouse Review Crew Review here.)

(A story of a slow-moving tortoise who tries to find someone to play with him.)

(A story of a pet box turtle who digs his way out of his backyard pen and imagines he is having adventures in Africa and India as he moves across the backyard.)

Description from Amazon, "This book is a delightful story about a new family of painted turtles. From the safety of the nest where the baby turtles hatch to the security of the pond where they search for food and witness the changing seasons, this beautifully illustrated book is ideal for introducing young children to the wonders of nature. "

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School Time With My Father's World Week 7 (posting a little late): Unit 2- Mm Moon concluded

Unit 2- Mm Moon Part 2

Words to Remember: I am the light of the world.

Oh my goodness, I just found another one of my School Time Review posts that I never published. I am not sure where my brain is these days. Once again, I am just going to keep this as is, though it was written quite a while ago.

Well, I am a little behind in my school time posts. We finished our Moon unit a couple of weeks ago and I am just now getting a chance to share. Hopefully some time this weekend I will get to share about our current unit.

First we worked on a M handwriting page.

School Time With My Father's World Week 7 (posting a little late): Unit 2- Mm Moon concluded

Unit 2- Mm Moon Part 2

Words to Remember: I am the light of the world.

Well, I am a little behind in my school time posts. We finished our Moon unit a couple of weeks ago and I am just now getting a chance to share. Hopefully some time this weekend I will get to share about our current unit.

First we worked on a M handwriting page.

I helped Hannah find the "M"s and write a couple, then she scribbled.

I had seen this idea on another blog and expanded it a bit.

I printed out a picture of the moon. Then I had the girls place Cheerios on the craters. (Continuing our lessons from last week on what the moon is made of and what is found there.)

I told them to make sure they put more Cheerios where there were more craters.

After they were done I allowed them to eat those Cheerios.  A few days later we revisited the moon crater project. I had them cut out the moon and glue it on black paper and add star stickers. 

Then they were to glue on the Cheerios to make it an art project instead of just an activity. 

They had to make a face in the moon first.

Then they glued the Cheerios on in the same manner as the other day, putting more where there were more craters.

Our next focus was on the moon's phases. We read a great book called Faces of the Moon by Bob Crelin. In this book there are cut-outs that show the moon changing shape as the days pass. It did a really good job explaining the changes, showing the waxing and waning and also explained that the moon rises and sets at different times of the day. Some of this was a huge refresher for mommy. There was quite a lot I didn't remember from school.

Then the girls cut out their moon phases. I used the same templates I did a few years ago that I found at the DLTK website. This time the older girls were able to cut out their own moon phases, where last time they just did the gluing (sort of like Hannah this time). 

Tabitha, Amelia, Hannah

From top to bottom: Tabitha, Amelia, Hannah:

I knew I was going to do moon phases Oreo's. I had found this idea quite a while ago and have seen it several places since, so I am not sure who the credit belongs to for thinking up this idea, but it was fun!

I made the actual moon phases.

Then I had the girls place paper strips with the names of the phases by the correct Oreo half.

Then we ate the Oreo's.

Another book we enjoyed was The Moon Might Be Milk by Lisa Shulman. A young girl asks several different animal friends what the moon is made of. The cat says milk, the hen says an egg, the dog says butter, the butterfly says sugar and the mouse says flour. Then her grandmother proves that each is partly correct as she uses these ingredients (plus a few unmentioned ingredients) to make sugar cookies. The young girl concludes that the moon is a giant sugar cookie. So, of course, for Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen we made Sugar Cookie Moons following the recipe in the back of the book (where all the ingredients are listed). 

We then shared them with our neighbors to be "lights" in our small part of the world, reflecting Jesus' light and love as the moon reflects the Sun's light.

In addition to our Moon lessons, we also had a "Mini" muffin tin.

Hannah moved her mini bottle of  Crayola water to add her cup of Cheerios from when they were putting craters on the moon. Works for me, they are mini O's aren't they?

The older girls also completed a few of their worksheets while Hannah napped (We aren't getting them all done, but I figured we can take a day here and there to catch up unfinished worksheets and it will be a way to review what we have done so far.)

Handwriting:

Sound discrimination:

Math:

These sheets are included in the student sheets from My Father's World.

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