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Hooked On Phonics, The O Song

This is a picture of the new floor. It looks so nice, and makes all the brown wood paneling not look so old, and wood like LOL. I do not like the wood paneling, but my husband does. Oh well, I guess I can't have it all my way. Not much exciting going on here today. It is raining, which there was no rain in the forecast, and dreary. I did start my exercise regime today. It has been a long time coming, and I just have to set aside a time, and day, to do it. So Tuesday, and Thursdays will be the days. It is a start at least.

Below you will find another Hooked on Phonics video. It is the O song. It is geared towards kindergarten, but if your child is struggling, then it will be useful to them as well.


Lesson Plans For 03/10/10:

DJ:
Clouds: Crossword puzzle
Math: Prime numbers less than 100, adding decimals
Social Studies: The presidents conclusion
Language Arts: Homophones, root words, sequencing events
Vocabulary
Sign Language: Numbers 1-20 final week
Cursive Writing

Caitlin:
Reading: HOP The Big Log
Printing Practice
Phonics: Zoo animals
Math: Two equal parts
Site Words
Flash Cards
Animal Book: Australian animals

Hooked On Phonics 1st Grade Learn To Read

Caitlin is not in first grade yet, but she has done so well so far on her reading, that I am going to begin some first grade phonics with her. If it start to overwhelm her, I will just go back to the kindergarten work. She loves these phonics videos, so we can start here. Also if you have a child learning to read check out Starfall. It is a wonderful program, that both of my kids have used at one time or another. I am going to try to advance her in math a bit too, but again I am not sure how it will go. We are coming to the end of the third grading period, and will soon be finishing up most of our curriculum. That will leave us time to review what we have learned. This mostly will apply to DJ in preparation, for his evaluation. Tomorrow is test day, so there are no lesson plans to post.

More Phonics Fun. Itsy Bitsy Spider

More phonics fun, for your little ones to enjoy.

Three Little Pigs Hooked On Phonics Song

I usually end up posting things geared more towards DJ's age group, so I am going to share some of my favorites from the 5-6 age range. I love Hooked on Phonics. I am not just saying that, either. Next to Starfall which I also love, Hooked on Phonics is fabulous. If you want an easy, non stressful way to get your kids to like phonics, and reading, you can't lose with HOP. The video below is the Three Little Pigs, childrens story set to a catchy song, and video. I love it! If you have not checked out my archives yet, be sure to do so. I am always adding websites, and thinks that I think are useful for both homeschoolers, and public school children. I am giving away a free necklace, over on my jewelry blog. Be sure to go to Melissas Jewelry, and get your entry in. It is free, and easy, and someone gets the beautiful necklace shown.

Tomorrow is test day, so I have no lesson plans to post, but DJ will be reading the next two chapters in his Sherlock Holmes book, with summaries. Tomorrow is also writing, so be sure to check out his blog, to see what he comes up with for the letter M.

Parts Of A Plant

Yesterday I had a guest blogger, so I didn't get to post any lesson plans. If you home school, check out the post, it is very good.


Lesson Plans For 11/03/09:

DJ:
Science: Animal classifications review, Parts of a plant. Check out these two cool websites, to help your little one learn the parts of plants http://www.botanical-online.com/lasplantasangles.htm, http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/parts.html
Language Arts: Verbs, adverbs, prefixes
Cursive writing
Spelling/Vocab: Look up the definition for each word
Math: Subtract with zeros, addition, word problems

Caitlin:
Reading: HOP Tub Fun
Math: Animal counting
Printing practice
Alphabet book: Letter A, see below
Site words
Spider web craft: Cutting and pasting exercise
Emotions: Worksheet

Lesson Plans for 11/04/09:

DJ:
Social Studies: Thanksgiving, pilgrims, the Mayflower see video below
Language Arts: Verbs, prefixes, exact nouns
Cursive writing
Spelling/Vocab: Write each spelling word two times each
Math: Multiplication, division, subtraction

Caitlin:
Social Studies: Thanksgiving, pilgrims, the Mayflower
Reading: HOP Tub Fun
Math: Adding to ten worksheet
Printing Practice
Alphabet Book: Letter B
Site words
Opposites: Worksheet

Caitlin has completed all the letter worksheets, and is now making the alphabet book. To do this take the worksheets, and glue them to a piece of construction paper, then find, and paste other things that start with the letter A. The child should do this with help from the teacher/parent. Once the book is completely assembled, you can use it for phonics, letter identification, word association, etc.

First Day Of School Lesson Plans

Before I jump right into the lesson plans for tomorrow, I must first say we had an awesome summer. Our new playgroup of friends has kept us busy, and full of fun. Today the weather is not so grand, of course we are having people over to swim. Thank goodness for cable, and playstations just in case LOL. I read an excellent post this morning on foods that trigger migraines. I left a comment, but forgot to add something important that I learned during my own research. I suffer from migraines, for many years. They are hormone related, but have worsened, sending me to the Dr. Something interesting I learned from her, was that I should try to avoid MSG. Ok, so I thought what a loon, I don't even eat Chinese food hardly ever, though I love it. Then I did some research, MSG is actually a preservative, and used in many different foods. The one thing also, however is it is also in some medications, that are gel caps, or enteric coated. I was taking Excedrin Migraine for the headaches, but it was upsetting my stomach. So I switched to the coated ones to help with the stomach irritation. Little did I know I was actually making the migraines worse, because I obviously am sensitive to MSG. Since avoiding it, and stopping taking the coated tablets, my migraines have lessened in intensity. It has not taken them away, my hormones are still hormones after all, but I avoid the MSG which irritates it more. I have only had to take the prescribed migraine medicine once, since applying the no MSG to my diet. Read your labels it is also called monosodium glutomate. That's it, just thought I would share that will all my fellow migraine sufferers.


Lesson plans for 09/08/09:

Caitlin:
Phonics: HOP pg 3 say the sound, listen to CD
Beginning sounds: worksheet
Land or sea cut and paste: animal classification
Reading: Book one Cat HOP
Site words: Hat, Cat, Dog, Sun, Mom, and Dad
Alphabet book: Letter A
Cutting practice: worksheet

The alphabet book you can start at the beginning of the year. We will put the book together once the whole alphabet has been completed. If you do not own a Hooked on Phonics program, I highly recommend it. I bought one used, but complete, for 9.99 on Ebay, it has already helped tremendously. I use TLS books, and DLTK websites for free kindergarten printables, they are excellent.

DJ:
Language Arts: subject and predicate, prefixes, synonyms and antonyms
Spelling: write each spelling word two times each
Vocabulary: look up the definition for each vocabulary word.
Writing: 10 things about me blog award, thanks Tes
Math: Add, subtract, multiply, divide
Science: Animal classifications, falling leaves project
Reading Comp: worksheet

As you can see we jump right back in, and review old material to be sure it has been remembered, then add new stuff as we go on. I used Lesson Snips this year, for both Science, and Social Studies lessons, they are wonderful. I also have workbooks for each as well, for projects. Here is a cool, and easy Science project for your fourth grader.

Purpose to demonstrate that a leaf's death is not what causes it to fall from the stem.
You will need: sprig with four or more green leaves attached, and a small vase.
Procedure:
1 break a sprig with four or more leaves attached off a bush, or tree.
2 Stand the sprig in the vase.
3 Set the vase where the sprig can be observed, but not disturbed, for four weeks or more.
4 Observe the leaves as often as possible, but do not touch them.

We will post the results, and why, after the experiment is completed. If you do this with your kids, be sure to do the same.

This week we may need Friday, to play catch up, due to DJ needing a hand xray one morning this week, and playgroup fun on Thursday. Whew what a week it is going to be. Have fun, and happy schooling.