Adapting Education
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The Bug Life cycle game
Because we have explored various big life cycles such as the bee, butterfly, ant, ladybug and finally a quick look at the firefly which I made the materials for and added books-we were ready to play the bug life cycle game which includes these bug cycles. Lily enjoyed this because all of the figurines…
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The chalkboard
We changed it up and started the day with the chalkboard and Association method work. Starting with phonemes and matching cards to board. Then we moved on to picture drawing and matching words. We do Once upon a time stories and select words to use in the story to then practice reading and writing. Some…
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Mostly Math
Maggie above with the counters. She is using cards I printed out that I pulled to work alongside the box. Maggie working with the counters & Lily with an activity she used to avoid mostly because of the coloring and fine motor skills involved. The idea is to match the bead bar to its corresponding…
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Spelling & Writing
We have been working with the pink series in language and the girls are finally finding routine to the cycle we do. Knowing this I added an additional step of handwriting practice after completing the usual. So we matched the word to picture first. If Lily is not interested in finding it herself I give…
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Flowers & Insects. Planets.
Our last shelf setup was spilt between the Solet system and plants and bugs. We’ve covered different insect life cycles: ladybug, butterfly, bee, firefly (briefly), the ant…..so I put these all together complete with the 3 part cards. I added books on each critter, some they haven’t seen yet as I pull them out…
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Maps and a Trinomal cube.
We covered maps recently but it was really more of an introduction. To this point we’ve discussed the earth and that it is the only planet with life. Now we’ve extended that to land and water and now continents. I took out an atlas where we could read in pictures what each continent was and…
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