Author: Liesl - Homeschool Den
MATH IDEAS PART I — addition, hundreds board, skip counting (roughly K-2): With the beginning of the new school year, I worked a lot to become more organized. Perhaps someone out there can benefit from my master math list. GENERAL MATH SITES: (I used these a lot for Kindergarten Math) http://www.littlegiraffes.com/math.html http://www.jmeacham.com/ http://www.thevirtualvine.com/math.html NUMBER GAMES from this website: http://www.mathwire.com/games/numbergames.html ADDITION: Addition Math War — a card game. The person with...
MATH IDEAS PART II: (Time, Place Value, Money Activities, Multiplication) TIME: One activity we did quite a bit was to take a blank clock face (no numbers) and to practice putting the hours (1-12) around the edge of the clock in the correct spot. Once that was easy for my son, we took a clock with the numerals and then put the five minute increments around the edge of the...
We have just set up a new website that will be dedicated to our homeschooling activities. Hope you enjoy our new blog!
Hi! Welcome to our new homeschool blog. I’ll leave these first few pictures here for the firstmonth or so — scroll on down to see if we’veadded anything new. I thought I’d first post a couple of picturesfrom our area of the world. Pictured belowis a Ghost Gum Tree. We drive off road alot and go hiking, looking for rocks andkangaroo bones (one of LD’s favoriteactivities!)
We go to the local Reptile Centre fairly often (once a monthor so). Here’s a picture of a bearded dragon. We once hadone of these peer into our sliding glass door! This one is probablyabout 25 centimeters long or 10 inches.
We have unique things to do here in our town. I took this picture at the Camel Cup Races in June.
Here we are feeding the wallabies. If you look closely, you can see a little joey poking its head out of the Mama Wallaby’s pouch. Every now and then we’ll post more pictures of our area — but not today! Now on to some of our homeschool activities!
JULY’S POSTINGS ARE ALL PRESCHOOL AND TODDLER RELATED! I have a clear plastic file box (actually now I have two-goingon three!) filled with all kinds of preschool activities. I’ll sharepictures of some of the things I have on hand. These havebeen very well used for the past four months by my 3 yearold and (now) 19 month old. My 19 month old has beenstringing straws for months now! I’ve posted...
Matching foam itemsPracticing Buttoning (I sewed the green felt strips andbuttons onto the blue felt backing.) I don’t remember where I sawthis idea. If you’ve seen this on another blog let me know and I’llprovide the link for others. Straw pieces on plastic string (or pipe cleaners)
BeadsSorting Pompoms into little cups
I have a bag of colored strips and scissors prepared andready to go. You can also put lines on the strips. Add in a glue stick and paper plate and you’ve got amosaic project!
Hair clips — This is an activity I saw onmymontessorijourney.blogspot.com Sort thehair clips by color and clip them onto the ponytail holder.
Sorting, spooning pom-poms