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Early this year Ian drew these.

Frog...We have been waiting for this unit! Because... Frog and Toad Together is THE book that helped my son read (sorry, MFW). Seriously. This was how it begun. His dear friend (an auntie) gave him the book. First we read to him. WE fell in love with the most humorous book!!! Then we found some videos online!! Oh my. This really started him on the book. Then he watched so many times (and we read so many times...I can't count) that he started memorizing the stories. Then he started to relate to the words. And he started reading. As in REAL reading. Not like a couple words reading. He can read every single word in that book after a couple weeks. Then we got him the Treasury (used one from Amazon). We read again, he read and again he could read everything. From there, he started reading other words from other places. And the phonetic stuff we have been teaching him started to make sense. I remember the days (actually it's just a few months back) Ian would meticulously wr...

We don't have that many activities for X-FoX but we have lots of books so I intend to read a book every day. Here are our activities *Bible Memory Challenge. I made a series of worksheets to help memorize the verse Ps 119:98 (Ultimately he'll have to write all the words) *I did a tracer using this cool program on this site for my preschooler *we'll do a comparison of fox and dog *We'll do the rhyming game *We'll read Gingerbread Boy and bake gingerbread Booklist Wild Fox, A true Story by Cherie Mason Fox In Socks by Dr. Seuss The Gingerbread Boy " the author is Paul Galdone Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney Three Aesop fox fables Dr de soto Hattie and the Fox by Mem Fox Bible Your commands makes me wiser than my enemies because your commands are always in my heart. Ps 119:98

We have been WAITING for this unit!! Just because "Frog and Toad" books are our very very favorites. They are the books that "taught" my son to read and spell. SERIOUSLY. I'll have to write a post JUST on these two FUNNY amphibians. Anyhows, because of that I've decided to put up THEIR pictures instead of the real frogs (they look so much cuter anyways). For our unit, here's the plan *Lots of frog and toad stuff (reading and videos) *Frog Lapbook (get ideas here ) and a pop up card here - Difference between frog and toad *Caterpillar and polliwog video *Easy paper frog craft for the preschooler * Origami *Play leapfrog Some fun online games * Frogmania (eating dragonflies) * madlibs (if your K'ner can write this will be so fun) * tic tac toe Snacks/food * Cookies * Frog egg pops * Frog bread (OH MY GOODNESS, this is SOOOO cute. My hubby said "This is getting out of hand") * Frog fruit Booklist From Tadpole to...

B-Butterfly unit was so much fun!! We had tons of crafts, activities and our preschooler was REALLY involved. Well, mostly because she loves crafts. We had great fun with the food too! Here are what we did: *Pasta life cycle ( I REALLY like this...thank you to my friends for giving me the different pastas!) I ended up buying bowties, so we made a lunch out of it. *Dramatizing life cycles. The kids love it too. And Colleen painted the wings beforehand. Can you see we used grocery bags? Got the ingenious idea from the forum *sun-catchers. OOOH...these are so beautitful! *Drop paints using eye dropper and then fold into half for a love symmetry effect *Ian read Hungry Caterpillar and used props from here *For Math this week we made our own weigh balance (such a creative idea!!! I found on the web) and did some weighing. It was fun. *I think we had too many books of the same idea...so it was redundant. *We watched a DK DVD on butterfly . It was fun.

B-Butterfly is an amazing week!! We have so much to do I think we might do more than 6 days. We'll see. Here are some of the things I gleaned from all the great ideas I've seen from the forum and the internet Crafts Grocery bag wings (use grocery bags to make butterfly wings) tissue butterfly caterpillar becomes butterfly craft Paint a butterfly Sun catcher (thanks to a gift from a friend) Life Cycle Nice photos here Other info of the butterfly and here Make cards and a poster Activity (from the manual) Pasta poster (got from the forum)   -egg (rice)   -caterpillar (rotini)   -chrysalis (shell)   -butterfly (bowtie) Snacks Flutter-By Franks (got this from the forum) 1 tube (8 oz) refrigerated crescent rolls 4 hot dogs (or turkey dogs, if you prefer) Ketchup & mustard Unroll crescent dough & separate into eight triangles; cut each triangle in half. Roll each piece into a ball; flatten to 1/2-inch thickness. For wings, place f...

For J-Jewel, we had SOOO much fun with our acrylic jewels. We did a lot of stuff with them *Jewel patterning *Jewel Hunt (Which was a hilarious story, read from pics) *Jeweled cross *Jeweled crown *the toddler played with them, putting them in containers and dumping out Other things we did *Ian (and me. cos I only know the simplified version)learn to write the Chinese character "Bao" (precious). Not an easy word. We write it everyday. *Made necklaces adn bracelets. The kids LOVE them!! *We really like Diamonds and Toads. *baked these really yummy Thumbprint cookies

We've already started on the unit and we enjoy the fun with the "jewels". We LOVE the books too! I'm glad many years back I bought this pack of acrylic jewels ...for fun. I thought I'll be able to do something for the kids in therapy. I didn't do much. So, we are going to have lots of fun with them! Plan for this unit: *Jewels on cross (using popsicle sticks) *Jewels on crown (using the template here ) *Make necklaces/bracelets from pony beads (we already did them and the kids LOVE it!) *Use the acrylic jewels for patterning *Do a jewel hunt   *Learn the songs "Jesus You are more precious than silver" and maybe " When He cometh " *Coloring for J (I used the J is for Jesus on this site *Make a thumprint cookie? (with raspberry jam filling) Book list: * The girl who wore too much (great book, good learning!) * Moon Lake * Benjamin's Treasure * Diamonds and Toads (our kids REALLY like this one) Bible Nothing is a...