Month 1, week 3: All about C

We have just wrapped up another week of homeschooling and this week we learned all about the letter C, the colors red and green, the number one, and our community helper: police officers. Like every week I fill in our learning area's whiteboard with what we will be covering during the week, as you can see below. Like most weeks we kicked off ours with learning, tracing, and writing our lowercase and uppercase C's from our workbooks. Staying in theme with the letter C learning, we like to create a letter craft. You can find ours from our previous year here. Continuing in the fun letter learning our preschooler always requests that we do a word find. This week we drew a large letter C and filled it with any word we could think of that started with the letter C as an easy way to associate his world around him with this letter we are currently learning.

 

 

 

With this being our last week of learning this theme we wanted to finish out our apple learning strong with an "Apple of God's Eye" lesson. This was a fun way to kick off our week by creating our own paint, you can find the recipe we use here. Using this paint we sliced a few apples in half, dipped them in paint, and created our very own apple print cards. Inside our cards we wrote the verse:

"He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye"  Deuteronomy 32:10. With Awanas starting up this week our preschooler gets to enjoy a night every week filled with learning Bible verses and spending time with other kids learning about our faith. This is such a fortunate activity our preschooler gets to take part in and really helps us at home with another opportunity to incorporate our faith into our everyday learning! You will hear me say quite often to really use the resources available in your communities to help you on this homeschooling journey!

 

Onto the rest of our week, this one was pretty special since we were wrapping up our learning theme of apples and still had a large amount leftover, we took the opportunity to take our learning to the kitchen by making some homemade applesauce. This is an easy, hands on activity that your preschooler can take charge of. We found our recipe here (we used a crock pot instead so that our preschooler could be in charge of every step). I love incorporating our toddlers help in the kitchen and giving them a chance to be involved in creating the food we enjoy eating here.

 

(This paint wasn't quite the consistency I was hoping for ,but our preschooler still enjoyed this activity)



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As the week progressed we really shifted our focus onto our community helper of the month: police officers. This is newly added to our curriculum ,but we loved the idea of learning each month about the people in our community and what they do. This ended up taking up the rest of our week because of all the fun activities we found to go along with this lesson plan. Initially, we introduced our community helper of this month by visiting our local library and picking up a book called "Police Hurrying! Helping! Saving!" This book was great at breaking down all the different things police officers really do! To go along with our book we decided to make our very own police officer badges by printing out an outline and letting our toddlers decorate them however they wanted. We also did a fun fingerprint activity by tracing our toddlers hands and using a stamp pad to make fingerprints. This was a great activity to show how different everyone can be with something as easy as different fingerprints.

 

 

 

Keeping in theme with learning about police officers we moved onto a great color sorting sensory game. We made our own traffic lights with some construction paper we had laying around, this was a simple activity and helped connect our shape of the month: circles to our everyday learning. I precut all the pieces and let our preschooler glue them together in order. Once our traffic lights were complete we used them as a guide to our color sorting bin, we used Lego's and pom poms that we had lying around our home as filler for our bin this time.

 

 What kind of homeschooling week would it be if we didn't incorporate a fun themed snack in, right? So, after some searching on Pinterest we came across some easy to make traffic light snacks! All you need are some graham crackers, peanut butter or really any spread of your choice, and some m&m's. It's as easy as it sounds too and a complete hit with both of our toddlers!

 

To wrap up our week we reviewed everything we had gone over this month from some pages in our workbooks and some flashcards we have laying around. We really wanted to reinforce the colors, letters, shape and number that we learned over the course of our first month back before we moved onto a whole new month and different theme. And like every week we made a special trip down to our local library to enjoy the circle time they put on for the kids in our community and to pick up some books of our own for our new learning themes. As for this week here are some of the books we really enjoyed:

 

 

 

We hope you had a great week learning alongside us! This upcoming week we are preparing to explore a whole new theme and get into celebrating all things October. Be sure to pop back in for some fun games, new sensory bins, and some fun local activities we like to enjoy every October!