Deep Inside the Ocean (Art Project and Song)

"Way Down Deep - Deep Inside the Ocean"

This was an art project that Hannah made in Preschool (2009-2010).  Make your ocean collage on one plate. Cut a window out of the other plate...

...place it on the other plate

and staple it together.  Super cute!!

Here's the song that goes with it.  You can buy (and listen to) the song at Songs for Teaching

Chorus:

Way down deep

Deep inside the ocean

Nothing's ever still

Something's always in motion

Way down deep

Deep inside the ocean

Nothing's ever still

Something's always in motion

Fish blow bubbles but they don't speak

Not a peep not a squeak

They don't talk

They don't walk

They swim and swim and swim around

But they don't ever make a sound.

Chorus

The plants by the coral reef wave and sway

While the fish in their schools

All frolic and play

Dogfish don't bark

Cafish don't meow

Seahorses don't neigh

'Cause they don't know how

Chorus

Slow motion…slow motion….slow motion

Leap Frog "Letter Factory" Flashback Friday

Leapfrog - Letter Factory

Hannah loves this video. She already knew all her letters when I bought this DVD. She didn't know any letter sounds, but after watching this for a few weeks, she knew all of them. I didn't do any work with her on the letter sounds, she learned it all from this DVD.

Isabella Inchworm

Hannah came home with the cutest song about the letter Ii.

You can also watch a cute animated video on Frog Street.

Isabella Inchworm will you try

to name some things that begin with I

Into and inside and in between

invisible means that you can't be seen

Indians and igloos, and insects too

and interesting, intelligent kids like you!

VIP of the Week - October 11 to October 15, 2010

Our VIP

Every week in school a child is chosen to be VIP of the week, and Hannah tells me every week which child was chosen. She was SO excited on Monday, that she was able to say "I'M the VIP of the week!" She brought home Chester (the puppet dog) and his backpack filled with dog books. She also made a poster filled with pictures of her (and one of me?... she insisted). Today (Friday) she gets to stand in front of the class with her poster and they get to ask her questions about the pictures and what she likes to do.

We all made a big deal about Hannah being the VIP, and she loved it!

WheatGrass (Flashback Friday)

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!

Daily Sentences (Flashback Friday)

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:

1. A silly sentence (like so)

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!)

Reading Time at Hannah's Library

Welcome!

We found this in the living room last week! Hannah having story time with her animals.

She's busy reading to all the "children"

The entire living room was her library. She sorted the books by content...

...each section had it's own place.

After she read a story, each "child" received their own book to read from.

Here's Hannah reading/singing "The Animals of Farmer Jones"

I am also allowed to pick out books from the library. She uses my library card, "scans" the bar codes and lets me borrow books. Hannah uses the piano bench as her checkout stand. She loves it!