Following the Plan Friday; The Letter G

I have no pictures to show you!  Can you believe that?  For one thing, it's hard to take pictures while you're busy telling a story and holding a mask over your face, and second, who wants to see pictures of the exact same thing (worksheets) every week?

So, I have to confess that our week wasn't all that exciting (Is this normal?  We really have hit the drudgery days of school, I think.  All four kids, really).

Monday was a holiday that we all thoroughly enjoyed.

Tuesday we did Goats.  That was fun.  I printed out some masks from the Sparklebox, assigned each kid a role and we acted out the story of Three Billy Goats Gruff.  The boys got a big kick out of kicking the troll over the bridge.

I also picked some gems from the dollar store and we included those into our worksheet routine.  Now the boys cover their dot pages with gems before doing the dot markers.

We did Gumballs on Wednesday, hoping that we would be able to go to the library and pick up Goodnight, Gorilla, but we never made it there.  So on Thursday we spent the morning at the park and I had the boys do some of the gorilla activities that afternoon, but we didn't get to do the book.  Bummer.

Today we are going to do our Green activities.  I think the boys are going to love the pudding!

Lesson Plan for Week of October 8: The Letter G

This is a four day week as October 8 is a holiday.

This week we are going to read The Three Billy Goats Gruff storybook and Good Night, Gorilla storybook to help us on our GOAT and GORILLA days. Then we will explore the world of color with GREEN.  Friday we will have fun with GUMBALLS.

TUESDAY

MATERIALS

• The Three Billy Goats Gruff storybook
• Or read it online.  First School was links to different options
•  SparkleBox has tons of printouts for this story, including story sequence cards and story cut-outs that can be used in the telling of the story

• Size Sequencing Sheet, from Kids Learning Station
• Items for G Goat, by Totally Tots
• White and brown foam sheet/construction paper
• Scissors
• Pencil {to outline/trace letter} 
• Googly eye
• Crayon {if you want to color your goat}
• Glue
•  Items for Goat Project from Made by Bedtime Tales
• Goat Printables
• Markers or Crayons
• Glue
• Scissors
• Desired Printables
• Build a Word
• Do-A-Dot/Magnet page, from Making Learning Fun
• 1+1+1=1, Color By Number, Alphabet Maze

LESSON PLAN

• Review A-F
• Introduce letter G
• This will be the Hard G sound.  We will talk about the "J" sound later.

•  Introduce Goats by reading the story The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
• Print out some sequencing cards or story cut-outs and use them during the story.

•  Use the story to talk about Size Sequencing:  Big, Bigger, Biggest.
• Kids Learning Station has a great selection of worksheets

•  Make the Goat Project from Made by Bedtime Tales and/orG Goat, by Totally Tots
•  Do any Desired Printables

STORYTIME

WEDNESDAY

MATERIALS

• Good Night, Gorilla storybook
• Finger Puppets, by First School
• Printables
• Crayons
• Scissors
• Tape
• Items for Printable Gorilla Craft by Learn Create Love
• Printable
• Paint
• Scissors
• glue

•  Desired Printables
• Totally Tots 1, 2 

LESSON PLANS

• Review A-G
• Introduce G is for Gorilla
• Give your child the Finger Puppets, by First School and have them color them.  Cut and Attach each puppet and use them while you read Good Nigh, Gorilla.
• Do the Printable Gorilla Craft by Learn Create Love 
• Do Desired Printables

 STORYTIME

THURSDAY

MATERIALS

• Items for Green Pudding, by Parenting Patch
• vanilla instant pudding
• milk
• blue food coloring
• yellow food coloring
• two mixing bowls
• two whisks
• small bowls
• spoons
• Items for Green Collage, by Parenting Patch
• Green Construction Paper
• Magazines
• Scissors
• Glue or Tape
• Desired Printables
• 3 Dinosaurs
• Confessions of a Homeschooler
• Kids Learning Station

LESSON PLAN

• Review A-G
• Introduce G is for Green
• Likely your child already knows his colors.  This will be a review, and an introduction to writing the names of the colors, as well as the color wheel

•  Make Green Pudding, by Parenting Patch
• The concept of three primary colors coming together to make three other color might or might not be too much for your child, but they will certainly love making pudding.  Talk about the color wheel as much or as little as you desire.

•  Make a Green Collage, by Parenting Patch
• Give your child some magazines and instruct them to cut out pictures of green things.
• If the weather is nice, head outside and look for green things.

•  Do Desired Printables

STORYTIME

FRIDAY

MATERIALS

• Gumball Coloring Page, by Education.com
• Desired Printables by Confessions of a Homeschooler

LESSON PLAN

• Review A-G
• Introduce G is for Gumballs.
• This will be a fun colorful topic for them.  We are just going to follow along with Confessions of a Homeschooler's Gumball Day for this lesson.

STORYTIME
**I'll have book recommendations up by Tuesday.  Thanks for your patience!