Halloween

So, here are some of the fun things that we have done for Halloween this week. The boys made pumpkins out of paper plates. We traced their hands and they cut them out for the leaves. The boys had a lot of fun!

Today we made foot print ghosts. They turned out cute and I will always remember their feet at this age!

YEA!!!

So, Jonah sat down and sounded out some words yesterday! I am so proud of him. He really just needs some confidence I think. When he realized that he could read the words in his "I can read it box" I think that he realized that he could read other words also. He sounded out about five words and then he was done, but he did great! Now I just need to keep reminding him that he can read.

Jonah's words story

So, Jonah has an "I can read it box". Every day he reads the words in this box, and then we add one or two more. He has been doing so well! Well, I decided that it would be fun for him to have his own book of words that he can read, so I wrote a story for him. He is going to illustrate it himself. I just thought I would post the story. It is not fabulous by any means, but it includes all the words that he can read. I have bolded all of the words that he can read.

Once upon a time, there were some Super Hero’s. They were Spiderman, Superman, Underdog, Batman, Optomis Prime and the Ottobots, and the Ninja Turtles. They all were preparing to work together because a great war was coming.

The evil Thomas, Doctor Octopus a mummy and one hundred bears were starting an army and were going to take over the worlds population of chipmunks and Doggies.

One day, the chipmunks and Doggies were playing at the park. They were having so much fun on the playground when suddenly a cloud of dust overtook them.

Back at the Super Hero headquarters the Super Hero’s were all eating pizza and pop when the Transformers got a warning. Optomis Prime told the other Super Hero’s “I feel there is trouble at the park” All the Super Hero’s jumped into their Hot wheels and fire trucks and flew to the park.

They arrived just in the neck of time. They saw the cloud of dust overcoming the chipmunks and Doggies. The war had begun.

But the evil army was no match for the Super Hero’s. The Super Hero’s quickly overtook the evil army and saved the chipmunks and Doggies from the cloud.

The End

New curriculum

So a few weeks ago I ordered some books that I read about that are called "Games for Learning" and "Games for Writing" by Peggy Kay. I have been using them for the last couple of weeks and we are having so much fun. All we do is play games all day and the boys are learning a ton!




One of the games is called I can Read it Box. You take a index card box and put cards into it. Then you ask the child what word they want to read. I asked Jonah and his first was was Superman. Shocking Huh? So, I wrote Superman down. Then I asked him what it said and he said Superman. I then praised him profusely because he read the word. You are supposed to add a word a day and have them read every word each day. It has worked SO good. He now has 24 words in his box and can read them all. I started adding two words a day, because he was doing so well. Now I add a word a day that he chooses and a word that I choose. I want him to start learning sight words like "the" and "and" and "I" but of course he will not choose those words so I decided that I needed to add them myself. Anyway, they are fabulous books!

Columbus Day

Yesterday we learned about Christopher Columbus. We read a book about him and then we made hats and telescopes and pretended we were him. We got on our boat the Santa Maria (ie the coffee table) and sailed away into the deep blue sea. The boys acted out things that we had just read in the book. When we got to land, the boys knelt down and kissed the sand and talked to the Indians. It was a lot of fun!