Lapbook: The Letter "I"

I will be honest, I thought we were never going to finish this letter and lapbook up. Both boys, and myself were sick and I was not in the mood to have to put this book together. So, Luk had to put up with Starfall and read along books from websites for a couple of days. We did finish the letter "I," and it came along quite nicely after that. Here is our week on the letter "I."
These are the books and one movie we watched:



Now, this week seemed to have more activities than what we did in the book, so you can look at the pictures. The red spotted leg on the top is coming from the book "Insects Are My Life." The girl talks about getting 21 mosquito bites. What is a great way to count to 21 in a boys mind? Make bites on a leg of course. Luk had a BLAST doing this!

The Color Wheel activity comes from Itty Bitty Love and Mama Jenn. Our's is not as pretty as hers, but Luk did a great job doing it by himself, and he loved seeing the colors on his sheet.

 

These are worksheets came from KidZone, it was a great way for Luk to visually see the long and short sound that the letter "i" makes. He enjoyed seeing all the words that do not start with "i," but had the letter.

 

Luk has been showing struggle saying the numbers "16, 17 and 18." So, I decided to make the scoops numbers, and he is finally saying them correctly. The interesting thing is he can count to 30 even 40 and 50, but 16, 17, and 18 get thrown in as "fifsixteen."

 

This was a great three year Birthday present from a friend of Luk's that I was able to find insects for him to create with his pieces. He made this into all morning event. He decided that he wanted to do more than just the insects, and he did.

 

After this activity, we mixed the remaining water so that he could see the green, orange, and purple be thrown into the sink.

 

These are crafts that we did for this the letter "i." Igloo, Iguana, Inchworm, Instrument (he also did an instrument during story time at the library), the Icosahedron (20 sided shape), and Color Wheel to go with the Ice Cream scoops.

 

Yes, Luk ate more marshmallows than what was on the actually on the igloo (or not, LOL).

Homemade Ice Cream idea came from Crafts by Kaboose
Inchworm came from Delightful Learning

We also made instruments with Tupperware and noodles. I would have to say that was Logan's favorite craft. We quickly made the tiny one you see in the picture just for him.  The ice cream was a hit. The paper ice cream scoops did great with color mixing and counting. Also, a great resource program that put together a study on Insects. There were areas that were over Luk's head, but he gained a lot of knowledge about insects through this, which brings in the ant diagram from the folder.

It was a drawn out week, but we managed to finish this folder that started at the end of last week. Now, we move on to the letter "O."

Lapbook: The Letter "E" Update

We took the Egg out of the vinegar, and I never finished telling how much Luk enjoyed it. He was telling me that we needed to do it to all our eggs, but I was reassuring him that was not going to happen. =) He was surprised at how bouncy it was, and we decided to pop it and see the shell. He couldn't believe that the shell was still there just "invisible." Here are the pictures.

He wanted to test the bounciness of it in his hand. 

 So, there it is our eggperiment. It was fun.

Our "New" Classroom

My husband was asking me all day Friday what I wanted for Mother's Day. He had already gotten me a present, however he wanted to give something more. That evening Logan (our youngest) gave us the worst night we have been in the seven months he has been in our room. In the middle of his 3 hour crying fit, I looked at my husband and I said, "I want to have Logan put in his own room." We want the boys s share a room, but we want Logan to sleep through the night. Well Saturday, I had to go dress shopping with a friend, and my husband went to work. I call the room "Logan's Temporary Room/Luk's Schoolroom." Let me paint the picture for... we live with my parents. We did this to help pay bills, and we all get along. My older brother still lives in the house as well. The "office" and "garage" have become huge storage rooms, and it led to Luk, my brother, and my parents in the their room, while we shared our room with Logan. The "office" was piled high in storage.
Now, we have a room that still has a small portion of storage, but mainly an area for Logan and Luk's school things. Here it is for, now. Honestly, I couldn't be happier. Next step, convert the garage and office in a grandparents suite!

Those boxes that are piled are from a video store my parents use to own. Image junk that high all over that room... progress indeed.
As for Luk's area, you can see his desk, charts, board, and maps. I am slowly trying to do a Workbox System, but I will get more indepth with it after I buy the rest of our curriculum at the FPEA Convention on the 26th. Here is a peek into the boxes:

These are the Craft box. I have a collection of paint brushes, pipe cleaners, pompoms, finger paint stamps, finger paint, glitter, markers, crayons (that I divided into six baggies), and glue.

The World Map and United States Map with the Legend at the bottom. Luk already told me where Florida is and Tennessee. Which is great because we haven't gotten indepth with this yet. I plan on doing a letter tree to the right of this.

1-100 Number Chart, Long/Short Vowels Chart, Manners Rules. On the refrigerator, Luk has charts for practicing good manners, chores, and toy rules. He receives stickers for each thing that he completes. After the week, his money earned is based on the work that he has completed. These are his jobs.

Our lot of educational board games. We love playing games in this house. There is also his Ant Hill that we will be doing starting in the fall, along with the Butterfly Garden.

This is Luk's Workbox for the Letter "I." The red box is his supplies for writing and crafts. The money tray is just misplaced for right now.

I want to end with my sweet Logan; he was hanging around, enjoying his little area for the moment.

Lapbook: "The Letter E"

Another week is finishing up, and we have completed the letter "E." We did it all today, which was not originally in my plans, however Luk has a double ear infection and chest congestion, Logan has had major allergy issues, and I have basically been dealing with all of the above. So, we did the lapbook and our "eggperiment" for the whole week.

"The Eggperiment": The Transparent Egg
On Tuesday, we put an egg in a jar with white vinegar to see the inside. Here is how it is going:

Day 1: Sunk, same size, white, and still has its' shell

Day 3: Floating, bigger, beige to yellow, and slimy

Luk's reaction to feeling it today was, "Ooooo, it's slimy!" He is getting it. We are curious to see what becomes of it as the week finishes up.

Now to the "E" Lapbook: In the previous post, I put a carousel of the books that went along with the folder that I was putting together. It was a fun week talking about eggs, elephants, the "e" sounds, and pigs (part of the books).

Luk was putting together his "E" book and sorting the "e" words and their long/short sounds.

Then along with the sounds, he separated words (that don't start with "E") into Horton's nests.

Luk and his Emotions. Angry, Sad, Disgusted, Happy, Afraid, Sad, Surprised, Calm, Curious

He was really happy about acting these out, and telling me how something happens to bring out these emotions. It was great having him do this. He later had a great time acting them out again!

The arts and crafts for this book was the Golden Egg to go with the Aesop Tale, "The Goose and the Golden Egg," He finger painted (and brush painted) an Earth, and the puppet Eagle.

Handwriting Without Tears "E" and Elephant connect the dots.

The Birthday sheet was because his Birthday is tomorrow. He will 4! We are super excited! So, here is our Letter "E" Lapbook. I hope that it helps you with ideas and thoughts on how to teach the letter "E." I must say that Luk loves sorting the sounds. It has been a great treat teaching him phonics. Next week... The Letter "I"

The Lette "E" Plans

 

This is my pick of books from our public library. I also have the "My 'E' Sound Box" and "An Egg is an Egg." Luk's crafts for this week will be an elephant, an eagle, counting eggs, and different ways to make eggs. There will be more to come at the middle of the week.

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