November Book List

The Prodigal Cat by Janette Oke
Changes for Julie by Megan McDonald
Julie's Journey by Megan McDonald
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Bitter Dumplings by Jeannie Lee
Brothers byChris Soentpiet
BSC Little Sister 13: Karen's Surprise by Ann Martin
Island Rose by L.E. Williams
Sunchaser's Quest by Mary Stanton
Ella Enchanted By Gail Carson Levine

Field Trip to the Fire Department

The girls' Uncle is a fire fighter. While visiting his family, we took a trip to his firehouse. The girls got to explore the fire engine and see their uncle all geared up. They were fascinated with the poll and their uncle demonstrated how the fireman use it. We toured the upstairs of the firehouse and met all the other firefighters.

Snow Day

Princess Flower prayed for snow today....well we have heavy flurries. I grew up in GA and whenever there was a possibility of snow it seemed like schools closed or were delayed. I decided to have a GA mentality today and delay school. More so because I need to pack for our trip and taking school on the road for two weeks. PF will still be required to complete Language and Math today but for now it is fun to listen to them so excited to see flurries. I made them snowman muffins and they are listening to jingle bells.

Making Math Fun

Today we were learning place order using terms such as before, after, 1st and last. I had butterfly get five of her favorite ponies and line them up. Then she would point to the pony that fit each term that I would call out. This would work with any favorite toy, we just chose ponies for today.

Adapting to different levels

A huge task I have been working on lately is adapting the Social Studies and Science curriculum I am using with Butterfly and Ladybug to work for PF too. PF just finished the history book we were working in and not thinking she would finish so quickly I packed up the next one. I will have to wait until my teacher assistant can move acouple boxes for me to get it back out. While we are waiting, I figured that PF can join in with the lessons that I am doing through the Kindergarten Curriculum. She might even learn something we missed.
In Social Studies, we are going over helpers in our community. The younger two colored pictures of a police man.

Princess Flower created her own police man and wrote why they are important to our community.

*

With having more than one child to teach, the fewer different books I have to use the better. I figure that Ladybug and Butterfly will be in the same books for Science and History for all of school and Dragonfly will join them at some point. Maybe at some point they can all follow along with PF, that is probably wishful thinking but maybe we can keep to the same topics. But I think using no more than two Science and two history books will be helpful in the long run for us.

Pipe Cleaners

Today for math, we worked with pipe cleaners. They are great manipulatives for counting, patterns, addition, subtraction and much more. We also used them to learn the terms above, below, middle, same and different.