Taking a Break

We've decided to take a short break or "vacation" from school. We just bought a house and are moving in next month! So we are packing/planning for our daughters 1st birthday party which is also next month. So much to do!

So when we get settled into the new house we'll continue with Letter of the Week. :)

Letter D: Dinosaurs

We kind of slacked off this week. Josh had the week off for both of our birthdays (they're just 2 days apart) so I wanted the kids to enjoy having him home. So, we didn't do much school but we made up for that with a super cool trip to a Museum in Norman! :)

So, the fun pics first.
Braxton had a BLAST. Almost the entire museum was about Dinosaurs or prehistoric animals/creatures. FUN! We didn't think Braxton would love it as much as he did but we were sooo wrong! He has been talking about it the past week and of course telling anyone he comes in contact with that he "got to see Dinosaurs, but they aren't real. They're dead." lol

Now, onto school. Below is the dinosaur lapbook I made for him (I can't wait til he starts making these himself!) ;)
2 sequencing game, a counting game, a puzzle, 2 places to practice writing "D" and "Dinosaur" and then he drew some dinosaurs on there. (Betcha thought that was just scribbling, eh?) (Games are from here)

Puzzle time!

He wrote DAD! (with some help, the top one was the example I wrote for him, he decided to do it all in uppercase though, not so great at the lowercase yet. That's okay though, we're really just focusing on uppercase anyways!)

Coloring a dinosaur for the front of his dinosaur lapbook. Also, no pictures of this but he did his first color by number! (Let's just say we still need practice with that!)

Letter D/d tracing


Cute little Dinosaur



Tracing the letter D, he get's so frustrated when he goes off the lines. :(

Letter D craft from Homeschool Creations (This was such a cute & fun Dino to make!)

Completed :)

I wanted him to practice writing the letter D (without tracing), as you can see he writes it backwards...and then he decided letter A sounded like MUCH more fun!

We also read 'How do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food" (There is actually a bunch of books like this about Dinosaurs but this was the only one our library had available.) We read a few more books about Dinosaurs but I can't recall the names of the books now.

And finally, we had a DINO DIG! I made some homemade playdough, used plastic dinosaur toys to make impressions in the dough and then baked until hard. Josh hid them outside in the dirt and we had Braxton go looking for "fossils." It was a big hit!