Princessa: Science Notebook

Princessa is still studying the human body using AIG curriculum.  We are both enjoying it and it is easy enough for her to understand but not to simple that it bores her. She has learned about the skeletal system and the names of some of the major bones, The brain and the different parts and what they are used for, The muscular system along with the heart, We tracked what she ate while learning about the digestive system, She is now on the five senses, and even though she learned about this in 1st grade, this curriculum took it to the next level by learning about the individual systems.

She studied the eye and the pupil, and is now on the tongue and the different sections.

Through the whole study she has been keeping a science notebook, which is a great way to keep all you have learned in one place.

While learning about the skeletal system she included a tiny human skeleton. While studying the eye she drew the different properties of the pupil. And while learning about the tongue she included a map of the taste sections. 

She also spent alot of time doing the activities on Virtual Body, a web site I found on Pintrest.

When we are finished studying the body she will put together a lapbook that I found on Pintrest as her final “test”.




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And who ordered the Apples?

To compliment our A for apples unit we did an apple tasting activity. This is how I got Prince a couple years back to even taste an apple. Anyway we did it again this year because Lady Jey is older and could be more involved.
Over the weekend I gather a couple of different types of apples that were new to our tasting. Some of these is for an apple desert I am going to cook later in the week.



I prepared a simple graph chart so that could chart the different taste and texture. I then gather the kids around the table

and we were off.
The favorites ended up being…

Prince- Granny Smith



Princessa- Pink lady ( I wonder if the name had anything to do with it!?)


Lady Jey- Fuji


Lady Bells- all of them .


The kids really had fun! So of course I did too, I have lots more planned for this season and the upcoming holidays, can’t wait~

Apple Tot

This week went a little better with Lady Bells, ok so I bribed her with paint but hey do what works right?!  She was also really excited by all the apples around. And on apple tasting day she was the first at the table! She also set with Lady Jey a lot this week just looking in on what she was doing, this really excites me because she learns a lot more by watching then doing. This was how she learned her letters last year, which I had no idea until this year!
Anyway we worked on identifying colors by coloring in her apple coloring book, which I found on Pintrest.



She was really excited about filling in her chart like the big kids for the apple tasting .


She did a finger painting of an apple tree, but she was only interested in doing the red apples… and making sure to wipe off her fingers after every apple! (she doesn’t like dirty hands)



She worked on pre-writing skills which I am happy to say she finally realized she had to follow the lines not just connect the pictures! YAY!


I didn’t get her to do all of the worksheets in our Collection but at the end of the week she could identify the letter A and knew its sound and I am happy with that!
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Apples everywhere!

This is my favorite time of the year! The apples, the cool breeze, The beautiful colors, Tis the season of family time! We kicked off the season with A for apple, reading about Johnny Appleseed and an apple tasting. but that is just the start, oh, the things I have planned!
Lady Jey even seemed more spirited while doing her apple activities. Could it be that talks of Christmas have started in the Castillo household !  Don’t deny it, it is all but 12 weeks away!
But back to the time at hand, Here is our week in pictures…




handwriting…

identifying the letter A by placing apple stickers on all of the letter A’s. Lady Bells had to help with this one. She loves watching sissy do her work.



Apple counting… She made apple finger prints to match the number printed in each column.



finger painting… She was suppose to color in the rest of the picture but painting was the only thing that appealed to her that day!



she completed other fun worksheets found on different sites around the web, many of which I found pinned in Pinterest.

We have finished up our study of forces in science with magnets being her favorite. For her journal she wrote about an apple tree and for math we are studying decimal street in MUS.  Next week we will be adding in our Social Studies part of Sonlight, we are excited for the many books we will get to read together.
This was a really fun week working with apples and talking about fall, thanks for reading with us here at CA!

T for Turtle

School did not go to well this week, she was more interested in playing with her toys then learning about her letter. I do not worry  about this to much because she will have another year to review before starting Kindergarten so I did what she would do then let her go. Here is our week in pictures…

Prewriting: We are still working on this concept, she doesn’t yet understand that she has the trace the lines but we are getting there!


play-dough mat: She just likes playing with it, she doesn’t really make the letters yet.


Shape Sorting: This is her favorite activity, she does this one everyday.


Just playing around!

this is where she was found most of the week doing her own little thing!
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T with Lady Jey

3 weeks and things are still going strong, in fact I think she is becoming a little bored I may have to move up starting the You can read curriculum sooner then planned. Anyway we reviewed T, learned to write higher numbers, we also learned about forces, she especially like playing with the magnets, and wrote another entry in her creative writing journal.
This time her journal was about a special visitor. It really touched me, and it will the person to, if you are reading this, that she remembered the visit.
She talked about playing frisbee with Uncle Ron and when asked about how she felt she said, “ It made me happy to play with Uncle Ron but sad to because Nanny Donna has not been back!” I think it is time for another visit!
Here are some pictures of our week…


calendar time…


handwriting…


to busy to look …


T bubble letters from our CA Collections…


a little bit of coloring from our CA Collections…

That was our week in kindergarten here at Our Days at CA~

M for Monkey

My little monkey had fun this week with the letter M. From counting marsh mellows to a little bed jumping, supervised of course! We read 10 little monkeys jumping on the bed and she sang the song for the rest of the week. I gave her the How many game board from our CA Collections and let her act out the story.
Here is a look at our week through pictures…



“feeding” the monkeys marsh mellows (counting)…



Monkey magnets…



Here she is teaching her lalaloopsy how to write M’s…



Here is a shot of her making the M sound and her notebook at the beginning of the week with all her work inside. She went and found Mickey Mouse because like she said, “ Mommy he sounds like M!” …

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That is the letter M here at Our Days at CA~