Week 12: Pets Plan

I want to get a board where it states the weather, day of the week, month, letter of the week, we’ll also practice numbers by what day it is (Jan 4th).  I may try to incorporate colors weekly.  I may add more, but that is all I can think of right now.  I’m debating about making one or buying one still.  I’m not super crafty, so I’m thinking I may buy one. Almost all of the books we read are Usborne Books. We are in LOVE with them!  I also sell them, so if you would like more info. let me know! :)  If you want to check the books out I mention, you can click the link and search the name of the book.  Here’s the link: h4006.myubam.com

Week 12: Pets (Animals)

May 29th- June 4th

This month we are studying about Animals and we’re studying about the animals that are usually pets this week.  These lesson plans are mostly for my 3 year old son, but I’m adapting them to my 1 year old daughter as well.  They can be adapted for any age.  I have more ideas on pinterest.

Monday 5.30.16 Books

We don’t have books that are specifically about Pets, but many of our books have pets in them.  We’re planning to read I Want to Be a Lion Tamer, Peek Inside Animal Homes, and Animally again that are more geared towards my son.  We’ll also read the Animals Playbook, Animal Noises, and Alphabet Picture Book.  I also think many of our farm books would work, including My Farm Animal World pictured below.

Tuesday 5.31.16 Library/Learning

I looked up some library info, if we don’t do our playdate, I think we’ll go check out the library, otherwise, we’ll talk about animals that are common pets and define what a pet is.

Wednesday 6.1.16 Music/Library

We are planning to sing Old McDonald Had a Farm Bingo, and Mary Had a Little Lamb.  I know many people who have chickens as pets or farm animals in general.  I wasn’t super impressed with the songs I found on pinterest, but I added some on Pinterest anyway.

Thursday 6.2.16 Activity/Art

I think we’ll just make it simple and do color pictures of pets.

Friday 6.3.16 Field Trip/Food

We’re going to go Petco.  We may go again when they have puppy time.  I’ve heard of it before, but I don’t know if all Petco’s do it or not.

Saturday 6.4.16 Science/Sensory

Many people around here have pets, so we may just go to a park and pet some dogs as our sensory activity.

Week 11: Zoo Animals 2016 Plan

I want to get a board where it states the weather, day of the week, month, letter of the week, we’ll also practice numbers by what day it is (Jan 4th).  I may try to incorporate colors weekly.  I may add more, but that is all I can think of right now.  I’m debating about making one or buying one still.  I’m not super crafty, so I’m thinking I may buy one. Almost all of the books we read are Usborne Books. We are in LOVE with them!  I also sell them, so if you would like more info. let me know! :)  Starting next time, I’m just going to have the link to my Usborne website right here only and have pictures of the books.  Then if you want to check them out you can click the link and search the name of the book.  Here’s the link: h4006.myubam.com

Week 11: Zoo Animals

May 22nd-28th

This month we are studying about Animals and we’re studying about the animals that live in Zoos.  These lesson plans are mostly for my 3 year old son, but I’m adapting them to my 1 year old daughter as well.  They can be adapted for any age.  I have more ideas on pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/cambelicious/

Monday 5.23.16 Books

We have so many books about animals, they’re one of my sons favorite things in life.  In fact when he says his prayers at night, some animals are included that he’s grateful for. :)  Since tigers and lions are some of his favorites and they don’t live in the same place in the wild, I decided to lump them together in zoo.  We have so many wonderful books with animals and zoo animals.  I seriously only have a few pictured below.  There are only a couple pictures below that we don’t have, but we don’t have all our books with us. We moved to Idaho for a few months while my husband is doing his internship and we only brought what would fit in 2 cars, so we don’t have all our books. :( So, the books we’ll be using are First Zoo Sticker Book, Illustrated Alphabet,Look Inside the Jungle and Animally for my 3 year old(all of which he adores).  We’ll be using Slide and See Animals, Animals Playbook, and Alphabet Picture Book.  We use all these books all the time anyway (I just have to give a shout out to Animals Playbook.  If you have kiddos that are very hands on, they will love this book and it’s a customer special right now.  If you spend $40, you get it $5 cheaper!  I don’t usually do this, but because we love it so much, I thought I would let you know. ;))

Tuesday 5.24.16 Library/Learning

Since we just moved here, I’m not sure when they library has things going on, but if they do this day, we’ll miss it, so we’ll just focus on learning.  We will talk about the animals commonly found at zoos or maybe specifically in the Boise zoo and what they eat, who takes care of them, the difference between a zoo and the wild, etc.

Wednesday 5.25.16 Music/Library

We’ll sing 5 Little Monkeys, Tommy the Tiger, Going on a Lion Hunt all of which you can find on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/cambelicious/zoo-weekly-theme-ideas-2015/

Thursday 5.26.16 Activity/Art

We are planning to go the zoo and do an art project or activity on Friday instead.  The zoo is half off on Thursdays. :)

Friday 5.27.16 Field Trip/Food

I left all of our art supplies at our other house in Utah, so I think we’ll probably do activities instead of art projects while we’re here in Idaho.  We’ll probably do something simple. My plan is to have my 3 year old act like the animals I name.  He loves to play lions and tigers and my 1 year old is learning animal sounds, so I think this will work for both of them.

Saturday 5.28.16 Science/Sensory

I think we’ll do sensory in the grass.  We’ll pretend that the grass is the zoo or the jungle.  We have a few jungle animals with us.  We also didn’t bring many toys, but we’ll use what we have. :)

Week 10: Pond and Farm Animals Plan and How it Went 2016

I slacked off for about a month and a half, so even though it isn’t really the 10th week of the month, this is our plan.  I want to get a board where it states the weather, day of the week, month, letter of the week, we’ll also practice numbers by what day it is (Jan 4th).  I may try to incorporate colors weekly.  Almost all of the books we read are Usborne Books. We are in LOVE with them!  I also sell them, so if you would like more info. let me know! :)  Starting next time, I’m just going to have the link to my Usborne website right here only and have pictures of the books.  Then if you want to check them out you can click the link and search the name of the book.  Here’s the link: h4006.myubam.com

Week 10: Farm/Pond Animals

May 1st-7th

This month we are studying about Animals and we’re studying about the animals that live on farms and ponds this week.  These lesson plans are mostly for my 3 year old son, but I’m adapting them to my 1 year old daughter as well.  They can be adapted for any age.  I have more ideas on pinterest.

Monday 5.2.16 Books

This week we will read a few different books, My Farm Animal World, Slide and See Farm, and Farmyard Play book for my daughter.  For my son we’ll read Farmyard Tales, Peek Inside the Farm, and Farm Animals (Beginner Reader).  We have so many books about farms! :)

How it Went:

We read all of these except for Farm Animals.  We read these pretty often and the kids liked them all. :)  My 1 year old has a hard time paying attention to the whole story in Farmyard Tales.  She does fine if we just read the top part, but my 3 year old has started to love stories and telling stories, so there are a few books we read without our little one.

Tuesday 5.3.16 Library/Learning

If my kids are feeling better, we’ll probably go to storytime at the library.  Otherwise, we’ll talk about the animals that live on a farm and near a pond.  We’ll talk about fish and frogs too.

Fish at the hatchery, there were sooo many!

How it Went:

We ended up going to the fish hatchery.  My 3 year old really liked it and I thought it was really interesting.  It wasn’t like the one in Ogden (which I still want to do) where you can catch a fish, but it was still fun to learn what they do and where the fish the raise go.

Wednesday 5.4.16 Music/Library

We’ll sing Old MacDonald,Baa Baa Black Sheep, and Tiny Tim the Turtle (song below if you aren’t familiar with it).  Below are some more ideas.

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=ddc&hsimp=yhs-ddc_bd&p=tiny+tim+turtle&type=bl-bcr-6YPT7__alt__ddc_dss_bd_com

http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/farm-songs.htm

How it Went:

I can’t remember now if we sang Baa Baa Black Sheep, but we did sing Tiny Tim and Old MacDonald and the kids liked them.  My 3 year old is starting to sing songs and my 1 year old loves songs! :)

Thursday 5.5.16 Activity/Art

We’re going to make sheep which is the first activity of the book below.

How it Went:

We didn’t get to this activity.

Friday 5.6.16 Field Trip/Food

We’re either going to go catch a fish at a hatchery or go to the farm at Thanksgiving Point. We may try to do the one for our family activity on Monday depending on how everyone is feeling.

Turkey at the Farm

How it Went:

We went to the Farm at Thanksgiving Point and fed the chickens, sheep, and goats.  The kids got to ride ponies and touch horses.  We all love the Farm! :)

Saturday 5.7.16 Science/Sensory

We may play in some mud like pigs. :)  I think they’ll both enjoy that.  Plus, I can also point out how dirt mixed with water becomes mud.  Now I just need to find some dirt. :)

How it Went:

We also didn’t get to this. :(

Week 9: Ocean How it Went

I want to get a board where it states the weather, day of the week, month, letter of the week, we’ll also practice numbers by what day it is (Jan 4th).  I may try to incorporate colors weekly.  I may add more, but that is all I can think of right now.  I’m debating about making one or buying one still.  I’m not super crafty, so I’m thinking I may buy one. Almost all of the books we read are Usborne Books. We are in LOVE with them!  I also sell them, so if you would like more info. let me know! :)  Starting next time, I’m just going to have the link to my Usborne website right here only and have pictures of the books.  Then if you want to check them out you can click the link and search the name of the book.  Here’s the link: h4006.myubam.com

Week 9: Ocean

March 6th - 12th

This month we are studying about our World and we’re specifically studying about oceans this week.  These lesson plans are mostly for my 2.5 year old son, but I’m adapting them to my 8 month old daughter.  They can be adapted for any age.  I have more ideas on pinterest.

Monday 2.15.16 Books

We have so many Ocean books! I wanted to cover all my bases I could think of, so we talked about under the sea, on the beach, and pirates.  Here are some we read.  We also had story time this day and so we made oceans in a bottle.  We had water bottles and dyed the water green or blue and added sparkles and little ocean animals.  My son still loves his ocean weeks later! :)

Tuesday 2.16.16 Library/Learning

The kids got sick this week so we didn’t really do a whole lot.

Wednesday 2.17.16 Music/Library

Again, sick kids=not going anywhere and hardly doing anything.

Thursday 2.18.16 Activity/Art

We didn’t do our activity this day and it may have been a few week later, but I have a sensory bin for the kids and we put our little ocean animals (shark, dolphin, sea lion, crab, etc.)  They kids LOVED this and wanted to do it for several days until we clean it up.

Friday 2.19.16 Field Trip/Food

We still have yet to do this, but we’re going to go to the Aquarium.  We took Lijah over a year ago and he loved it.  He couldn’t keep his eyes away from the big aquarium.  Hopefully I’ll be able to take him in the next two weeks before we move for the summer.

Saturday 2.20.16 Science/Sensory

I’m counting our story time activity as our science and our ocean animals in our sensory bin for our sensory activity too.  The reason the ocean in a bottle was a science activity is because besides water, we added oil.  When you turn the bottle sideways it mimics waves and makes bubbles.  I’m pretty sure the adults were as excited as the kids. :)