Leapfrog - Letter Factory
This was our Easter display, but wheatgrass will grown great indoors, even during fall!I followed Make and Takes tutorial for growing wheatgrass and love the results. Hannah was able to do most of it herself and Ernest even did one for himself. Our first attempt didn't work out well, and since I over watered (a lot!) our wheat started to grow mold instead of grass! I'm happy to say our 2nd attempt worked out much better! This is our results after 12 days. There is just something magical about plants and being able to watch something grow from a seed. The wheat is growing so fast it seems like it's noticeably taller overnight!
I love the dew drops we found on our blades of grass this morning!
Each night I write a new sentence on Hannah's Dry Erase Board. I also write the phonics words that we are working on. The sentence is only made up of words that Hannah already knows and can read. After Hannah read the sentence, it goes into our homemade notebook. This was she can keep reading the sentences after she erases the board. The sentence is either:
2. A sentence out of a book that Hannah is going to read. 
This sentence is from the book "Just Like Dora".
Before she reads a book she will have read each sentence on our Dry Erase Board first. This way it will be easier for her to read a "whole, big, book" all by herself. She will have already read it on the Dry Erase Board without knowing it.
Don't worry if your child doesn't leave the sentence up. This is what our dry erase board looks like 5 minutes after she reads her sentence and words (that's why we have our homemade notebook!)
This game is called "Little Mouse, Little Mouse" You hide the little mouse under one of the houses (ok, they are barns... but at the time, I couldn't find clipart for a house that I liked). After you hide the mouse then your child can look.
Then outline with a black sharpie... 
Cut it out, mount on black paper and you have cool art!!
What a great looking dragon!
Here's Hannah's. I think she did a great job with the outlining!
Takeshi cut Hannah's out for her, she's not very good at cutting yet.
This is our Mixed-Up Sight Word game. Hannah loves to play this!
We are using Glenn Doman's method of teaching from his book "How to Teach Your Baby to Read".
We have 9 flashcards measuring 3 1/2 x 8 1/2. A single word is printed on each one in large letters. First I say the words to her for a couple of turns until she knows them. Like this:
Each day we take out the oldest word add one new word. The first words I picked were: Mommy, Daddy, Hannah, Takeshi and Ernest (her brothers). The next words that I picked are out of easy reader books that Hannah will be reading (after she learns these words).
Here is our video of us playing the game. We put the 9 flashcards down, and Hannah reads them. Then I mix them up quickly and say, "They are all mixed up... you can't read them now!" Hannah of course comes over and reads them again, and again.
Here is another version of the "Mixed-Up Whole Words". Here Hannah says the words once and then has Twyla say them the second time.
We play this game 2-3 times a day, mixing them up about 4-5 times in each sesson.
Counting BearsOf course counting bears are great for (just) counting too :)
