Homeschool Group Stations

One thing I remember about elementary school was the fun stations you got to switch to when the teacher rang a bell. You would get to the next one and see a whole new thing to explore. Not only will my kids not miss out on fun things like that because we homeschool, but we also get the pleasure of doing such fun things with friends who homeschool too! I love this group!

 We had three little tables set up with two different activities so the kids did a total of 6 stations for five minutes each. Tons of gross and fine motor skills practiced!

Station #1: Transfer water from a dish using different types of syringes and spoons into an ice cube tray. 

 Station #2: Lacing practice.

Station #3: Shape Construction with Popsicle sticks.

Station #4: Puzzle assembly with math blocks.

 Station #5: Use tongs to pick up pom-poms and put in egg carton.

 Station #6: Get a glob of PlayDoh and hammer nails into it.

Letter Oo, Number 15, Diamond Week

 O for octopus (glued eyes for correct number), Hipp'O' paper bag puppets, circled Os, glued cheeriOs to our O letter, practiced name writing, and did some water coloring of numbers, the picture is of my mom who the kids call Oma

 Of course some O letter practice...

 Number practice...

 And shape tracing...

 Introduced P for next week (that's a playdoh penguin):

Letter Nn

 Wrote out our name that starts with N using a finger paint and shaving cream mix.

 N for needle (stamp) and N for nest.

 Mini Nn book, name page, write the missing letter page.

 Zoophonics: Nigel Nightowl.

 Mixed hair gel and food coloring in a ziploc and traced our LOTW and NOTW.

 We also practiced our letters on the chalkboard.

 And attempted to draw pictures of things that started with N...like nest...

Star

 Rainbow Star!

 My 3 yr old cut out all of these shapes by himself and matched them to the shadow!

Our learning book is always a hit at the start of our week as we discuss the LOTW, NOTW, and Shape or Color of the week! We also did this follow the directions worksheet.

Number 13

 We practiced our NOTW with magnets. We had a 1 and a 3 and I asked which one went first. We tried 3 then 1 and saw it was different. We discussed that for a few minutes. 

 Tracing has not been very popular lately, but I am trying to encourage my 3 year old in the love of learning. He's digging the fine motor skills in our sticker book though!

Letter Mm

This week we came up with a lot of Mm words, wrote them on index cards, hung them up, and then took turns choosing a card to an activity with it. Since we were learning about the star-shape, we also starred our card when completed.

 M for Music.

 M for Magnets.

 M&Ms and Monkeys.

 M for Mmm Mmm Monsters.

 M for Mess! (I chose this activity--cleaning up an mmm mmm mess!)

 M for Marshmallows.

 M for Magnifying Glass.

 M for MOO! (For this activity, I had the boys find an animal that makes a sound that starts with M...Moo. They each found a cow, then ran around the house with it in their mouths.)

 M for Marbles.

 M for Mr. Potato Head.

 M and m tracing worksheets.

 M for Mouse.

 M for Mail. (We colored a picture and then sent it to relatives by mail.)

M for Market and M for Money.

 My niece joined the fun that day..

We also had M for Mommy, M for Mac and Cheese, M for Movies, and M for Michelle (auntie). We did some fun things with these too.