Over in the Meadow- Mommy School Routine Presentation

Here is my Mommy School Routine Presentation for Over in the Meadow. I did not get to Geography and PE Time this week. We have been spending a lot of time outside.

Over in the Meadow-Counting Animals and Have You Ever Been Camping?

Have you ever been camping? I posted the questions on the easel and printed out the tents, colored them and put our names on them. I picked up a tent with one of our names on it and asked who's name it was and then asked him the questions. He then put it under yes or no. Then we added the columns up.
Counting Animals- I made 8 squares on a piece of paper and numbered them. Caden was to put the correct amount of animals stickers in each square.

Over in the Meadow- Sentece Starters

Our lesson today from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm was Sentence Starters. I do not have a picture for this one but it was pretty funny!

We started off with...(Caden's words are in blue)

If I were a turtle I would....swim in the water.
If I were a fish I would...swim real high and bump your head.
bird...have wings and say Ohhhh and bump your head.
muskrat...go to the map.
bee...land on the map.
crow...bump my head on the ground and spin and can't find my Mom.
cricket...bump my head and find my house and can't find Lightning McQueen.
lizard...hide and can't find my Mom.

Boy, was he being silly! He was circling around the room and having a ball coming up with all this stuff!

Mushroom in the Rain: Sentence Starters and Crazy Zany Mushrooms

Caden is 39 months old
Hannah is 21 1/2 months old

Letter of the Week: Our letter of the week was letter T so we used our letter T from our magnet Leapfrog game to press in our play-doe.

Crazy, Zany Mushrooms: In the book it talks about how all the animals used a mushroom as a shelter to stay out of the rain. So the kids colored the animals, and I cut them out then they glued them under their mushroom.

Sentence Starters: Our sentence starter was: When it rains you can... and Caden came up with the answers. It was so cute to watch his little mind wonder.

Turkey Fun

Caden 35 months
Hannah 17 1/2 months
Jessica 4 years old

You can't quit see what the kids are doing but they are sticking some type of Gel art on the windows. I got it from Target's dollar section. The texture feels like jello and it sticks to things. It was turkeys, leaves, and it said autumn.

In the lesson we were practicing the letter U. This is Hannah's picture.:)

This is Caden's letter U.

This is our friends Jessica's letter U.

Then we made patterns. This came from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm.
We also read 10 Fat Turkeys.
This is Caden's pattern. He saw Jessica write her name so he decided to write his. He then cut out the bees and turkeys. Then I told them to glue the pattern of turkey, bee, turkey, bee ect.

Here is Jessica's.

I printed out this Turkey worksheet from first schools and had the kids trace the letter T and glue feathers on the turkey. This is Hannah's.

Jessica's

Caden's

This came from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm. I printed out the turkey heads and on the turkey heads were numbers. The kids were to put the correct amount of clothespins (turkey feathers) on the turkey.

In this physical activity I had the kids find acorns in the sensory tub and race to the other side of the living room, crawl through the tunnel and put the acron in a basket.

Looking for acorns.

This came from The Itty-Bitty bookworm also. These are called Name Turkeys. I had the kids paint a plate and and turkey head. Then I wrote their names on feathers. I then had them trace the letters of their name. Once complete glue everything on the paper plate.

Mommy School at a Closer Look

Caden is currently 34 months old and Hannah is 16 1/2 month old

We start out with our Prayer Poster. We say a prayer and then I ask Caden if he has any special prayers. Sometimes he does and most times he doesn't. lol (toddler)

Next is our number of the week which is number 5. We count to five and then I have Caden color the five and stick five stickers on the number.

We then sing our Days of the Week song.

Our letter of the week is D. I have Caden do a cut and paste. Paste items that begin with the letter D.

After our letter of the week we continue with a few songs. They mainly come from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm, depending on what lesson we our on that week. I also have a poster after our songs that says Story time. That is when we read the book that The Itty-Bitty Bookworm suggest for that lesson. After Story time I have a poster that says Bible Time. We then do our Mini Bible Unit from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm. After Bible is Craft Time. That is when we actually do our crafts/lesson from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm.

Mrs. Wishy Washy's Farm

Caden is currently 34 months old and
Hannah is currently 16 1/2 months old

We are currently reading Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Farm and doing the lessons from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm Bo's Year 1 October.

Animal Jail: We discussed how the animals felt when they went into jail. "Where they happier at the farm? Why are they sad?" I had the kids color the animals and then made jail bars by gluing straws on top of the animals.

Animal Jail

Caden's animal jail

Hannah's animal jail

This is Hannah's lesson from Bailey's The Itty-Bitty Bookworm (year 1 Oct.). We are reading Old MacDonald had a Farm. So we put the eggs in the basket and sang The farmers got the eggs, the farmers got the eggs, Hi ho the dary oh, the farmers got the eggs.

Mrs. Wishy Washy's Farm- Duck and Bubbles in the Tub

This is Caden's duck. Caden cut out an orange triangle for the duck's beak and then he glued feathers on the duck.

Hannah did the same. Caden cut our her beak for her.

Bubbles in the Tub: We are still reading Mrs. Wishy Washy's Farm. Both lessons are from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm. Caden had to put the correct number of bubbles (cotton balls) according to the number cards, in the tubs (cups).

Adam and Eve

Caden's snake that Mommy cut.

Caden said he wanted to cut, so I let him.

Caden's snake he cut out.

Adam and Eve: This lesson is from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm Bible Mini Units. First we read the story from our Big Picture Story Bible. We talked about how the snake (saten) is bad and God is good and how Adam and Eve did not listen to God about not eating from the special tree and yet God still forgives us for making mistakes.

Paper Plate Snake: Directions are to draw a swirl and have the kids color or paint the snake. Once the snake is colored then have the children or adult cut the swirl and it becomes a snake. I cut the first one and Caden said he wanted to cut so I let him and he did such a wonderful job.