Lesson Plan Template

I have been messing around trying to figure out the best way to display my lesson plans for Monkey and Alligator this summer. I have tried various styles. Finally I came to the decision that I think this will work best for us. It isn’t anything spectacular, but I thought it would be useful.

I am going to be doing a mix between teaching Monkey sight words from 1+1+1=1, and the reading program that The Moffatt Girls are using.

This is a week that will be mainly catching up on word families. The sight words are a review for him this week. I think I’ll end up doing 1 week of sight words, and one week of word families. We’ll see how it goes.

On top of all of this we will continue to do Mother Goose time together in the afternoons.

Race to the top

I am getting ready to start teaching Monkey some word families. I am using THe Moffatt Girls Reading lessons, to guide us.

I revamped my “roll a word” game to use with word families.

I figure I will load Monkey’s 2 education cube dice with –at and an words.

1. He rolls both dice.

2. He reads one word. Decides if it is an –at word or an –an word.

3. He makes a dot on the correct column on his paper.

4. Which ever column is filled first wins.

I made it a racing theme so that he would be a bit more interested. He loves a good race….who doesn’t.

Here is the download. Click the image to download!

Favorite Post of the Week #1,,,take 2

Edited to add: I messed up! I was trying to save myself some time, and I tried to reuse the Favorite Post of the Week #1, as my basis for #2. However, what it did was change that post, and therefore get rid of it. WHOOPS! So I am reposting it.

I have decided on Sundays to feature a post that I really liked.

No…silly, not one of mine.

I read a lot of blogs, and each week I will choose a post I really loved and share it. And since I get to decide, I am adding the princess picture to the top of the page. Yes, that is supposed to be me. :)

For my first week I am featuring The Moffatt Girls.This is a completely free, learn to read program!

Read and Enjoy!

Favorite Post of the Week #2

I have decided on Sundays to feature a post that I really liked.

No…silly, not one of mine.

I read a lot of blogs, and each week I will choose a post I really loved and share it. And since I get to decide, I am adding the princess picture to the top of the page. Yes, that is supposed to be me. :)

This week I am featuring an activity that looks really fun. It is from Stay and Play. There are downloadable recipe cards for making different colors. It looks really fun, and I am so going to have to give it a try. You should too!

Monkey loves to cook, so he would probably really like this!

Read and Enjoy!

Beach Week

We just returned from vacation.

We went to the beach, and had wonderful time.

Here are some of my favorite pictures.

    

I am always amazed at how quickly Monkey can make friends. Everyday he would meet up with a new little boy and play with him all day. It was awesome.

More vacation pictures will follow!

Put out that Fire!

We played another sight word game by the pool. But anyone with a hose could play it.

I wrote out our sight words, with chalk, and had monkey read them to me.

Then I called one of the words and told Monkey it is on fire. (He is a little obsessed with the idea of being a fireman when he grows up).

 

When he found the word, I put a red cone on it, and he would spray that word with the hose till it went away. (The red cone, was the fire…he wanted me to draw fire on it, but he said the cone would work).

 

 

And yes, that is me in the pool. Apparently I am being braver than normal (or feeling the 18 pound weight loss!!) and am actually posting me in my swimsuit on my blog. Progress….

Catch That FISH!

Last week, I posted about a fish phonics activity I picked up at Ross (you can read that post here).

Well, we added a twist to it today.

To start I found fish that would make one of Monkey’s sight words.

I threw the fish in the pool (you could use a tub, or a wading pool…whatever you have on hand).

Monkey caught the fish with his net.

Then he connected the letters together to make one of his sight words.

  

I ended up writing the words out for him, so he could try to figure out which word these letters would make. It was easier having that visual.

It was really fun. We will definitely play again.

I love finding games to play to work on our sight words, but playing them at random times, like when we just happen to be having a pool day!