Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Disney Halloween Night

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Have your Mom or Dad start a pattern and you keep the pattern going.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

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Have Mom or Dad tell say a word and you say a word that starts with the same beginning sound.

A Haunting we will go.

Monday, October 29, 2012

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Practice writing the letter Dd with a stick in the dirt, sidewalk chalk or finger paints.

Trick or Treat

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Friday, October 26, 2012

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Practice telling Mom and Dad your phone number and address. 

Witch Hazel's Vanity


Educational Online Game

Thursday, October 25, 2012

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Items that don't belong.

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Read a book with Mom or Dad and see if you can see upper and lowecase letters in print.

Grinch's Halloween Night


Monster Numbers Games
Scholastic Game

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

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Go on a letter hunt.

Garfield Halloween Night


Find the Differences

Monday, October 22, 2012

Pumpkin Head Harvey

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Have Mom or Dad say a word and then you say a word that rhymes.

Spookiest Pumpkin

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Red Barn-Opportunities usually come..

Boo to you

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Friday, October 19, 2012

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Recite your favorite nursery rhyme to someone.

Stella and Sam - Autumn is so Awesome


Easy Leaf Craft
Numbers 1-10

Thursday, October 18, 2012

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Read a book with Mom or Dad and find words that rhyme.

Five Little Pumpkins


Trendy Pumpkins

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Pumpkin Book

PDF Early Reader Pumpkin Book
Favorite Pumpkin Song
  
Here's a pumpkin who is happy.                         Here's a pumpkin who cries.

 
Here's a pumpkin who's sleepy.        Here's a pumpkin who sighs.

  
Here's a pumpkin who's angry.                        Here's a pumpkin who's sad.

   
Here's a pumpkin who is noisy.            Here's a glad pumpkin.
Go on a nature walk and gather items.  Then take them home and sort them into similar things.  Makes a collections.

How to Draw an Easy Cartoon Skull for Halloween Step by Step Lesson for Kids « How to Draw Step by Step Drawing Tutorials

How to Draw an Easy Cartoon Skull for Halloween Step by Step Lesson for Kids « How to Draw Step by Step Drawing Tutorials

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Bats in the Belfry


Bat Drawing Game
You can use these as flash cards.
Make Egg Carton Bats

Monday, October 15, 2012

Phonics Sounds

Going Batty

Early Reader Bat Mini Book
Online Story STELLALUNA
               
  Bats come in many colors.             Bats sleep hanging upside down  
       

Bats usually sleep in large groups in caves.

        
Bats have small eyes and big ears.             Bats are mammals that fly.


Sunday, October 14, 2012

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Great Grandma Louder

Megan's Great Grandma Louder passed away a week ago today.  She was a great woman.  She knew her saviors love for her and had a testimony of his power and grace.  If there is something needing done, she did it.  She had a saying "If you feel sad go to work.  If you feel mad go to work.  If you have a problem go to work."  When we serve others we show love.  Heavenly Father and Jesus want us to serve each other.  If we go to work and do the things we know we should we will find happiness.  There is only one way to find out if you can do something.  That is to try.  I going to work you can learn and do so many great things.  You have a great capacity to love.  You inherited that from your mom and generations before you.  Remember who you are and what you can become.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Sight Words

Read these with your child and they will be able to read them to you.  I am still working on sight words with Megan.  We tried to get  "a, away, and, can, the, in" today.  We made a little progress.
1 Sight Words

Great link for File Folder Games

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Prayer

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Using a string, shoelace or piece of yarn, form the numbers 0-9.

Echo the Bat Story

Online Bat Story
Echo and his mom hang upside down safe in their tree.
Echo is under his mom's wings.  There is a crescent moon outside.
Online Jigsaw Puzzle

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

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Write 5 words that start with the letter Cc.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Christopher Columbus

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Learn your birthdate and where you were born.  Tell someone.

1492 He Sailed the Ocean Blue



Christopher Columbus Song
When Columbus and other explorers set out in their travels, they gathered flowers and other plants they found.  So can you.  Slip a flower or leaf into the pages of a guide book.  Keep it in a place where it will be pressed flat.  It takes about 10 days for most flowers and plants to dry.  You can later glue them into a scrapbook using ordinary liquid glue.
Columbus Maze Printable

Nature Book


Friday, October 5, 2012

Ouf "Feild Trip" Today

Travis called this morning and wanted us to bring him some doughnuts at work for the guys.  I convinced Megan that we were going on a feild trip.  She said "like at school Mom?"  "Yes, like at school.  It will just be me you and Chloe though."  We raced to get dressed and headed out the door.  Did the errands we needed to bring Lehi Bakery doughnuts and Mt. Dew to the job site.  We did all this and got to Payson from our house in an hour and a half.  I thought that was mighty good.
Then I tried to find a place to buy apples.  There are all those orchards down there.  I had Megan thinking we were lost.  Chloe had been asleep for most of this time and didn't have any notions to the going ons.  We did finally pull up to a huge barn that had a sign on the outside.  Howards Fruit Farm in big letters and a number.  I called the number and the lady took us inside their storage.  It was a giant fridge with piles and piles of apples in boxes.  It was the highlight of they day.

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With Mom or Dad, estimate how many steps it is from one room to the other.

elmo counts firefighters

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Parent Teacher Night

Seems so sureal to go to a parent teacher conference.  I guess I am still in denial.  I was able to go with Travis and Megan showed us where her desk was.  She wrote her name for us and showed us her cubby.  Stuff like that.  Miss Andrus said that Megan is a tough girl and likes to play with the boys.  I guess she was punching the other kids in her class.  Not like a nose bleed punch, but a punch to the arm to say hi I guess.
Gees, I don't know where she gets that from?
Miss Andrus had a talk with her and Megan said she didn't know why she did it.  I thought she would be a little more well rounded.  She has been in the "system" since she was a baby ie. daycare and preschool.  She hasn't done it since they talked.  She also said how good she is to get right to work.  That made me really happy.  I have been working on that one since the day she was born. RIGHT.
The book fair was in the library.  Right after I picked her up today I said we could go over.  We walked in and the only thing Megan could think about was the little table at the entrance with all the kids junk.  Pencils with fuzzy tops, erasers, funny bouncy ball that kind of stuff.  Chloe was way more interested in the books.  It wasn't like I didn't try to steer her in the right direction, after all it is a book fair.  She has a one track mind when it comes to stuff like that.  We ended up getting a fuzzy coin purse and she was completely satisfied.  It was a $1.50.  I did pick up a book to read and a sticker book.  She didn't even seem to notice.  She makes me laugh.

P.I. Plug's Home Safety Video

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Monday, October 1, 2012

How does your pumpkin grow?


Emergent Reader Book
Printable Life Cycle of Pumpkin

Fire Safety Month


Fire can be helpful
When handled with care.
But fire and children
Do not make a pair!
So don't play with matches
Or anything hot.
Adults may use fire,
But children should not!

~Pauline C. Peck

Spot the fire hazard Game
Fire Safety Booklet