What is on the shelves- Thanksgiving

     The last couple of weeks of November, we will be working on a Thanksgiving theme.  Here are some of the works we have on the shelves now.

 

 

 

 

 



What's on the shelves for November- Farm Days!!

I've noticed that if I don't change things up on the shelves more often then DD will not want to work so I am changing every 2 weeks.  For the past 2 weeks we have been talking about Farms.  Here are the works on our shelves.  You can find the here.

 

                                           3 piece puzzles

 

                                 Adult and baby farm animals

 

What different farm animals make.  This one was interesting for my DD to do.  She was quite surprised at the duck being in her pillow.

I got this puzzle and another farm puzzle from the Dollar Tree.

I've had this Little People's farm for a while.  DD actually had this out on our regular shelf and didn't really play with it.  This time DD and DS have loved the farm and the animals.

The first week I had out these old farm toys (these were my toys as a kid).  DS loved the horse and the carriage.  He still likes to get it out.

What's on the shelves this Month

This month I did a Halloween theme Practical Life work.  Here is what is currently on our shelves. 

Finger grasping.  I got the orange containers and skulls from Michaels.

Finger grasping and sorting.  I got the pumpkins and pumpkin bowl from Michaels.

Spooning.  Bowls and skulls from Michaels.

Spooning.  Bowls and ghost/ bats I got from Michaels.

Pincher grasp.  Again Michaels.

Tonging.  Again, Michaels.

Hanging Halloween ornaments.  The pumpkin tree from Target.  The bowl and ornaments from Michaels.

Making Jack-o-lanterns.  I made them out of felt.

Calendar Time

      I think I have finally finished our calendar board.  Here is the finished board that is hanging in our "school" room.

     From Left side to Right side: Monthly calendar located under the monthly calendar we will be doing yesterday was, today is, and tomorrow will be with the orange cards in the pockets also we will be putting the weather card on the pocket for each day for a week.  On the right hand side, we have our weather bear and under him is our season.

     For now we will be using just one type of shape for the calendar numbers.  The plan is to introduce patterns at a later date by adding additional shapes and colors thus making the patterns (AB, AAB, ABB, AABB, ABC, etc).

     Here is a closer look at my pockets I made out of paper.  The pockets match up with the calendar days too.  I like the idea but wished I would have made the pockets taller so I could have put the names of the days of week under the cards that say yesterday was, today is, and tomorrow will be.  I might change it if it bothers me enough.  I like the weather cards on the pocket.

     Our weather bear!  We will be changing his clothes and adding different weather pieces as the weather changes.  Its been really hot here so we haven't had to change his clothes yet.  I still need to make some more clothes but I am ready for rain:)

     Season card.  I made this out of foam board and scrapbooking stickers.  I will make the other seasons the same way.  I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.  As time goes on I will add another foam board to show what the trees do for each season but for now it looks good.



What's on the shelf?

     This month we are going to be doing an ocean theme since its still Summer out.  My plan is to switch parts of the Practical Life and other ocean theme activities either once a week or switch about half way through the month.  That being said, here is what is on our shelves this week.

Bead stringing.  I got this cute little necklace at Michael's for $1.

Fish and Shell pattern.  I got the fish and shell pieces from Target and the paint holder from Michael's for $1.

Whale or Fish sort.

Ocean animal pouring.  I got the ocean animals from Michael's.

Open and close containers with ocean animals inside. 

Find the pirate buttons!  The pirate buttons I got at Michael's for $1.99.

Practice cutting.

     The only thing missing is the Sensory tub.  I haven't put it together yet.  I have all the parts but just forgot to get it ready but will add once I get it together.

Additional Ocean activities:

     I also found some great little cute ocean activities to do with Sugar Bear.  I found them at 1+1+1=1.

  

Memory game using ocean animals and color.

Matching sea animals.

What lives in the ocean coloring book.

Cute little story about in the ocean along with a pattern work.

Language Shelf:

     I also set out some new work on Sugar Bear's language shelf.  Here are some pictures of what is on her language shelf. 

If you turn your head you will see that the puzzle pieces have to do with what goes together.  I have several different puzzles so I will be switching them out for new ones later.

Opposites.  Again, I have several more that I will be switching out later.

     Our first letter tray!!  We are going to work on the letter Aa.  I will be teaching her the sound and name.  On the tray you see (from left to right, top to bottom): sandpaper letter a,  picture cards with pictures that begin with the short a sound, capital and lower case puzzle and picture card, under the sandpaper letter are objects that begin with the short a sound, and the letter Aa book which contains pictures of  things that begin with the short a sound.  I plan to teach this sound by itself and then add a letter.  I will start to combine the trays with sets of letters.  The sets of letters will go (a, m, s, t, b), set 2 (o, c, r, g, h), set 3 (i, d, k, l, f), set 4 (e, w, n, j, p) and finally set 5 (u, x, v, y, q, z).

Finally, on the bottom shelf is part 1 of my alphabet roll.  Basically, Sugar Bear will be matching the letters to the letters printed on the canvas.  My husband and I made the letters out of wood.  He cut them out for me and we sanded the edges down and I painted them.  Each section is like 4 feet long.  You don't have to make the alphabet that big, I just liked the wooden letters!!