School Week Review 12/12-12/16/11

This week was pretty down key for us with Christmas preparations and Jordan has been extra cuddly this week with the sniffles.


We read LOTS of books:

• Humphrey's First Christmas
• Mary's Christmas Story
• God Gave Us Christmas
• My Merry Christmas
• The Christmas Story
• Bible Reading: Luke 2
• Frosty the Snowman
• The Little Engine that Could and the Snowy, Blowy Christmas
• Christmas Mice!
• One Starry Night
• This is the Stable
• Cricket at the Manger

Then we watched these movies:

• The Polar Express
• Veggie Tales: Saint Nicholas
• The Bedbug Bible Gang: Christmas Show

And here are the activities we did this week:

Candy Cane Hunt and Color Match

This is from Confessions of a Homeschooler Christmas Pack

Letter Tracing Activities

Worksheets from 1+1+1=1 Christmas PreK Pack

Our Memory Verse Notebook

Tracing his 13 memory verses he's learned so far.

Plus a box to draw pictures related to the verse.

Candy Cane Science

We completed an "observation" worksheet by

pulling a candy cane off our Christmas Tree.

This worksheet is from 2 Teaching Mommies.

Christmas Tree Refrigerator Game

I pinned up the trees with ornaments on them.

Jordan counts the number of ornaments and then gets the correct star to top it.

This printable is part of Confessions of a Homeschooler Christmas Pack.

(See link above)

Cutting Practice

Jordan is getting so good using scissors, I only have to help

him start it out, then off he goes!!!

We used the puzzle worksheet from Over The Big Moon Pack.

Color recognition and Handwriting Practice

I had Jordan identify which marker to use for each "color"

and then he traced the color words.

And this is Jordan's Christmas Program

They sang and Jordan stood there, but he didn't cry, so that's a plus! :)

And that was our week! What did you do? Post your blog link in a comment.

Have fun and be a blessing!

~Bekah

Nativity Sensory Train Table

So, I've finally ventured into "sensory" stuff and I think I outdid myself this time, LOL.  My son was so ecstatic over this, it's been non-stop play AND he had to show his grandma and grandpa (since they watch him while I work in the mornings).

I used my son's train table with the tracks and all to set up a Nativity scene with SNOW! Yes, snow.  The Bible says Mary wrapped Jesus in swaddling cloths because it was cold - to sink in the concept of "cold", I put snow on the table.

Here is our Nativity Sensory Train Table:

Here is the Nativity Set with all the SNOW!!!

We did role playing.  Jordan carried the 3 presents

and we pretended to be the wisemen on a long journey

to Jerusalem to bring gifts to the king.  When we found

the newborn king, Jordan gave him the gifts.

Playing with the donkey that Joseph and Mary

used on their long journey.

Woah, he moves fast!!!

The 3 Wise Men standing before Christ, the King! 

Look mama a donkey!!!

Woah, the snow balls fit in my train tracks!!!

 Why, won't they stay???

Great fine motor activity without any thought to it, lol

Picking up the snow flakes, he thought they tickled!!

Stacking more snow balls.

I can blow on them to make them move!!!

Put snow in the donkey's cart and poured it out.

Another view of our sensory train Nativity table.

And I knew it, the train was going to come out sooner or later, lol.

It's the star to follow to baby Jesus.

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