The Fisher Four: Victoria

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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The Polar Express

Victoria is reading and doing activities for the Polar Express this week. To support and enhance the home/school connection, I am creating a few activities for her to do at home. I'll also put together a few for the little tot to work on as well.

First up: I used her spelling words for the week to create an alphabetical order train. You can download the file by clicking on the image below.

Please if you download and use, leave a comment and let me know if you enjoy the game. I really hope to get myself back into blogging.

~Teena~

Monday, September 26, 2011

Fall is here..

We had a wonderfully busy first weekend of fall. Saturday was spent enjoying the sunshine with a picnic lunch at our local park and lost of playtime! We followed that up with Bingo and Spooky Buddies the new Disney movie. Fantastic time had by all.

Sunday morning was spent at church. We tie-dyed t-shirts with our Sunday School students (I'm the proud teacher of 10 toddlers & preschoolers this year). The shirts are awesome and will be proudly worn as we walk for hunger in our local Crop Walk on October 16th.

Then off to our next adventure. The local Fall Foliage Festival. Music, funnel cake, ice cream and lots of vendors. What more could someone ask for. My brownie troop manned our community bake sale table for an hour, using their incredible manners and smarts. I'm so proud of the troop and even more proud to call one of them my daughter ;).

The LO was with us this whole time, pitching in on the fun but it sure did wear her out. She has a cold and wasn't up for much with Tot School this morning. We read and acted out From Head to Toe by Eric Carle (she gets to pick out the book we read), practiced some shapes and colors on the felt board, and did a quick visual discrimation game/matching for fall. She was tired by then, asked for Dora and her juice cup.

Here's a quick picture of the matching game. I printed two copies - cut both out. I laminated one set but then simply slid the pictures in a trading card sleeve to keep them stationary. I will laminate the second set later today. I really liked having the cards in the sleeves, it kept them in place when she bent over to place a card on top to match. This game along with several other fall games will be included in fall toddler pack I'm putting together. It should be available in my Teachers Pay Teachers site soon.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

R is for Robot..

Homework in the Fisher household can be an adventure! Victoria is either super willing or completely against. Well, tonight it was the latter! OY...what a night. 45 minutes later, a headache (mine), and the threat of losing TV for the remainder of the week, we finally accomplished 10 complete sentences. After the school homework, I thought for sure the vocabulary game I made her would be dismissed immediately. I was proved WRONG! She loved it.

They are reading Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann in school, so I whipped up a quick set of tile cards using her vocabulary words to go with it. She was so excited and can't wait to take them to school tomorrow to show them to her teacher! I'm making a few other things for her to use tomorrow night, I hope she likes them. I will upload and share the complete file by the end of the week.

The little one wasn't left out either. Her tot school time continued practicing the sound of "r". I made up some 4 piece puzzles of items starting with the letter. I quickly discovered, she needs a mat to build them on. I cut the pieces diagonally for the first time this made it much more difficult a task. Tonight after the kiddos are in bed, I will whip up a mat for her to use while building her puzzles. The outlines will greatly increase her success rate. We built a robot, a raccoon, a race car and a rabbit, just to name a few. We also colored a RED apple. All in all it was a great night.