Seeing Sight Words

Here's another thing that I had no intention of doing with the boy this year- sight words! But he's keen and I go where he goes. It was his choice to have them on cards, his choice to write them on the whiteboard- he does it often! He likes to pick out the letters that he has done a good job of writing. :-)  And he does it well.... I'm just a little bit proud of my little smart cookie!

Nursery Rhymes and Poems

Each week one of our activities is to add a nursery rhyme or poem to the book we have for such things. We try and read it most days and Tama colours the illustration... purple sheep? Why not?

Pre-writing

So much of this going on right now- lots of symbols, letters and numbers- the trick is when he asks me to read back what he wrote. We're working on that pencil grip too- normally it's just a matter of saying "Are those two tricky fingers hanging out together again?"

Letter Works

A super simple language activity looking at letter sounds and shapes.

Jelly

Jelly (not in line with our new diet) is something that Tama can make himself (I pour the water from the kettle). He enjoys doing it and knows the whole process. Even better he enjoys eating it.

I printed the photos from this session and he dictated the instructions for Jelly Making into his language book.

Telling Tales

Tama dictated a story about the Homeschool meet-up and then added some illustrations to complement the photos we printed.

Letter to Grandad

Tama's Grandad lives in New Zealand. They keep in contact via email, phone and snail mail- which is probably Tama's favourite. His grandad sends him pictures of the construction stuff he has going on at work and Tama finds him cards and postcards that he likes.

Sketching and thinking

We picked up a $2 calendar with images of Western Australia at the newsagents. Tama picked his favourite image and he talked about what he saw and why he'd picked it. Then he collected some leaves to sketch to compliment the report he'd given me.

In his spare time

There's lots of writing practice going on around here- all the time. The Whiteboard seems to be a kid magnet. :-)

We made a book!

 

Tama and I came up with a list of things that he can do together. Then we went and took the photos together with Kieran as a slightly unwilling participant being the only other person in the house to get kissed and cuddled. I pulled all Tama's ideas and my photos together in photoshop* and in 10 days time for the grand sum of $10 we'll have the complete 6x8 inch photobook awaiting us for pick-up at Big W.  (* You could easily do this project without photoshop- just using the photobook editing tools online).

 

  

 

Communicating

Will and Tama back in December working on Christmas cards and messages.

♥