Friday, February 8, 2008
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Maths & Manipulatives
The girls got straight into the new resources we bought at Spotlight yesterday, so we spent some time revising number 2 for Maitlyn, (she doesn't yet know 2, 3, 7, & 10 very well) and number 11 - 20 for Braylee.
Maitlyn revising number 2 - she coloured it in rainbow colour stripes. Worksheet from http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/print/writing_numbers/index.shtml
Braylee sorting the new manipulatives into groups of three. She discovered that 4 groups of 3 make a total of 12 (4x3=12).
Playing a game of Concentration (or Memory) with the numbers 0-12. They had to call out the numbers as they turned them over. They enjoyed this - especially Braylee, she won.
Braylee loves this activity with geometric shapes that you hammer into the cork board with little tacks - she must have used it 4 times in the one day. Great buy from the second-hand kids shop at just AU$4 .
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
OUR HOMESCHOOL SUPPLIES & RESOURCES
Maths Supplies:
A multiplication tables book, number chart, and a multiplication chart and number cards which I made on cardboard.
Reading & Phonics supplies:
The girls can choose their own activity. We call it quiet time, which is just after lunch. They can choose which room they would like to go to and spend time doing a quiet activity or two for an hour or so. We have more resources put away and I change them around every few weeks.
Some of our Maths supplies I picked up yesterdat at Spotlight store - lot of Manipulatives which the girls helped pick out. The number lines I made up on cardboard up to the number 21.
A multiplication tables book, number chart, and a multiplication chart and number cards which I made on cardboard.Reading & Phonics supplies:
Early Reader books (above) and some plastic lowercase letters, frij magnet letters and a spelling book.
Games & activities: our coffee table
The girls can choose their own activity. We call it quiet time, which is just after lunch. They can choose which room they would like to go to and spend time doing a quiet activity or two for an hour or so. We have more resources put away and I change them around every few weeks.
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Puzzle map of Australia
They had to match & name the floral emblems with the right states.
POPULATION by Braylee & AUSTRALIA IS AN ISLAND by Maitlyn.
After looking at the floral emblems of Australia, the girls wanted to discover what leaves they could find and indentify the shapes.
Maitlyn very proud of her school work and Braylee did this great Ken Done-looking dot-to-dot drawing of the map of Australia wth icons for each state.
