B is for birds, blueberries and St. Bernadette

Our Alphabet Path

Bb week

Cecilia (formally known as Princess) has officially unofficially started Kindergarten!

Yippee for the little learner, how ever unfazed as she is (she still thinks she should be in 'prettyschool')

So as with Rose, we are on our merry path to learning the alphabet under the influences and inspirations of Ms. Elizabeth, Ms. Jessica, Ms. Lacy and all the saints in heaven that kindly have provided me with much needed help.

Bb is for St. Bernadette

Bernadette the Princess of Lourdes

An Alphabet of Catholic Saints

B is for books

(lots of them)

I gave Cecilia the chose of topics 'under Bb' that we could read about.  Can you tell what her topic was?

Angelo by David Macaulay
The Bird House by Cynthia Rylant
The Bird Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta
The Owls by Gail Gibbons
Gulls, Gulls, Gulls by Gail Gibbons
Soaring with the Wind by Gail Gibbons
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
About Birds: A Guide for Children by Cathryn Sill
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell

We spent a lot of time on birds....a lot of time.

Bb is for Bird House

Science

Bb is for Blueberries & Butter

(in pie form)

yummy homemade butter

shake it...shake it....

Art & Crafts

Owls became very popular during the last few weeks.

On to Cc and

candles, candy, cookies, cakes....

St. Bernadette Pray for Us!

On Our Alphabet Path ~

Along The Alphabet Path

Ee is for elephants, electricity, eagles, endangered, enchiladas, echoes,

& St. Elizabeth Seton

~ Letter Formation ~

Using scuptley clay Rosa first forms her letters and then creates an animal inspired by the letter.  We used HWT for added practice.  Then rounded up the first part of our lessons with signing  the letter E also found on youtube

~ Literature ~

author study

E is for Elsa Beskow

• Pelle's New Suit
• Children of the Forest
• Ollie's Ski Trip
• Peter & Lottie's Adventure
• Around the Year
• Flowers Festival
• The Sun Egg

~ Language Arts ~

E is for Eyebright coloring pages, songs from the CD

and worksheets from here and here

Dictation work for E is for Electricity

~ Nature & the Arts ~

Working with Museum ABC and Serendipity's pdf page

All the kids completed a four square page for the eyebright herb.  Older girl labeled it

~ Science ~

E is for electrity

We read lots of books, watched some videos, and the kids recreated some past projects

On Our Alphabet Path

Along the Alphabet Path

Dd week

Dd is for dinosaur, dancing, ducks, daughters,  donuts

& St. Dominic

What happen to Cc week you may be asking....uuummm...I haven't a clue.  We did go through Cc week how could we miss it with it being the first letter in Rose's name.  But, I have no pictures of it sorry.  So off we trot to Dd.

~ science ~

Dd is for ducks

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

Have you Seen my Ducling

Dance at Grandpa's

The book of Dragons

Make Way for Ducklings

Dd is for Dinosaurs...and lots of them!

Lots of books & these videos.  Some of which our library carries....dynomite!

Bill Nye the Science Guy

Reading Rainbow: Digging up Dinosaurs

and some worksheets that were used for math and a lapbook

dioramas

Rose and Only Boy created these and chose an extinction theory to put in their dioramas.  Rose chose the theory of extinction by an erupting volcanoe while Only Boy believes the asteroid was the culprit. 

~ language arts ~

 hidden d worksheets & an illustrated story of her own

~ nature & the arts ~

D is for double daisy fairy coloring page

(while we listen to a song)

D is for dancing ladies

(from Museum ABC)

D is for Decoupage!

Each child was given a set of different stickers or printed pictures of their choosing.  I especially love Rose's insistance creativity in placing ants and ladybugs alongside our Blessed Mother.  They did come out really cute though and are a great place to keep their medals

~ Author Studies ~

D is for DePaola

Strega Nona

The Legend of the Poinsettia

Night of the Posadas

The Knight and the Dragon

The Popcorn Book

The Clown of God

Pancake for Breakfast

The Legend of Old Befana

~ Tea Time ~

D is for

Decadent Donuts

Sorry no pictures for these but, they were delicous and a dandy way to end our week

Along the Alphabet Path

Along the Alphabet Path
Bb Week

Bb is for blue, birds, birdhouses, and boats
and for St. Bernadette

Though we went through the letter Bb weeks (and weeks) ago.  But, alas I am slow to post.  We had such a good time with this letter though; and spent some time on it since we started birdwatching for fun over the summer.  It does look I still need to post the picture of our St. Bernadette wooden doll. 

Books...lots of books

Bb is for Bugle Boy

(while we listen to a song)

Bb is for birds

We began to look a lots of Bb related worksheets and poems.  There was a good amount of botany lessons to choose from and the kids had fun with it.  The illustration pictured here was Caro's best work.  She has an eye for drawing that one.

Like I said....lots of work sheets

See, look at that masterpiece!

Bb is for boats don't ya know

Birdhouses

Along the Alphabet Path

Along The Alphabet Path

Letter Aa

We are following little Micheal along his grassy path picking up flowers and letters along the way.  It is a sweet way for young learners to learn their letters.  There are so many "rabbit trails" one can take with the Alphabet Path that it's hard to keep to a letter a week.  So we haven't really stayed tried to stay on track. 

There are many books we get from the library and if the book proves to be a keeper then it gets put on a wish list until the funds allow for it's purchase. 

Here then is our first stop...

Aa is for apples, St. Anne, apple pie, and ants

Our books to read:

Apple Picking Time

Brother Bartholomew and The Apple Grove

Johnny Appleseed

Life Time of an Apple

Angelina Ballerina
How many apples to make an apple pie
Reading Rainbows Apples DVD

In addition to reading about apples C and V.M made a Johnny Appleseed lapbook using homeschool share free lapbooks templates. 

A is for Apples

A is for Apple Blossom

(and a lovely song)

A is for      

          alligators, ants, & astronants!!