Hi guys! We've officially started our homeschool year and completed our first week. We are in the middle of our second week. Today I wanted to share with you what my kindergartner has been up to. He recently turned 5 and here in Canada we do two years of kindergarten a Junior year and a Senior year. So, this is his senior year of kindergarten. He has always struggled with language and is currently in speech therapy. He really didn't start talking and having conversations with us until he was about 4 1/2 years old. So for that reason I am making this year lots of hands on learning and focusing on vocabulary and just getting comfortable with doing a little every day.
So far he loves doing school and is excited about learning to read. I decided to start his reading by working on word families. After he gets comfortable and is use to sounding out words, we will move to All About Reading. We completed the -at word family this week with a community helpers theme. Here is all the activities he worked on.
Here is a our kindergarten shelf and Tot-shelf. I keep all his center activities. These are independent activities that help cement what he learned during his phonics lessons.
I introduce each word family by making an anchor chart. We talk about each words ending sound and circle it on the chart.
I am using this curriculum to help guide my teaching.
Word Family/Phonics
After each lesson with me he goes to his work shelf and picks activities to do. I try to make each activity correspond with what we just worked on.
Here he is matching the word to picture. This is part of the curriculum I mentioned above.
This was his favorite one. He picks an envelope, says the name of the picture, and finds the matching stamp that has the correct word on it. If he gets it right he can mail his letter. I purchased this mail box from amazon, it's a Melissa and Doug one.
This was another fun activity. Lacing the alphabet to spell each word. This gave him lots of fine motor practice.
Say the name of the picture find the corresponding clothespin and clip it.
This was another great activity to help him learn to spell the words. The words are hidden and he looks at the picture, spells it with magnetic letters, he writes the word, and finally he opens the clothes pin to check his work. Easy and independent activity.
Math
This worksheet is from the word family curriculum.
Along with his phonics he also does math activities. His main curriculum is Math U See Primer. He completes one page a day and practices the rest of his math using Moffat Girls Fun with Math kindergarten curriculum.
Number order puzzle. After he finished the puzzle he wrote the numbers down.
Hundreds chart activity.
Bottle cup missing numbers activity.
Handwriting
This year for handwriting we are using Handwriting without tears. This is difficult for him because of his weak hand muscles. We do one page a day and the page its self is very short.
Logic/Fine Motor Practice
I put together a shelf that he can pull activities from while I am working with his older brothers. These shelves contain fine motor activities, puzzles, and logic material. He is welcome to explore and create and strengthen his hand muscles through out the day.
This game is from learning resources. I purchased it off of amazon. He has to recreate the picture on the card using the pieces.
Fine motor practice using a pegboard and elastic bands.
That's it you guys. I hope you enjoyed reading all about his week. I'll be back next week with our -an word family activities.
