File Folder Fun. :o)

Rachel working on her Initial Digraphs and Matthew working on  Upper/Lowercase Alphabet recognition.

James working on his Initial Blends

This morning we got to work right away after breakfast. We have been doing lots of file folder games lately....the kids like them a lot more than the worksheets, especially for phonics. I am going to see if I can find some math file folders for Rachel and James....I could probably just make my own but wow that sounds like way too much work. I have two sets of file folder games, one set I had to cut out and glue to a file folder myself-very economical-but lots of work. The other set is already assembled-I just have to cut the game pieces out.


Have a great day!

Unit Study: Sound

We started our unit on sound today. I decided to teach it to all three at the same time even though it's part of James grade three science curriculum. The kids loved it!

We worked on a little sound themed lab that I had purchased during the summer. It was very easy with lots of little experiments. The kids learned about vibrations, pitch, and volume. 

After we were finished in the school room, we went down stairs so we could do another experiment to illustrate pitch...the "water in the cups" thing. The kids loved playing music using the cups....and they LOVED the GREEN water! :o)

I had also found a cute little story book on sound that had some cute activities in it. So I read a few chapters of that and then we did the first activity-a straw flute. We only had small straws on hand so it was hard to tell the difference in pitch between the straws but it was still fun.  

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Well that's about it for now. 

We are going to review what we learned and then I have a few more activities, including making our own instruments!

Have a great day!