L is for Ladybugs

This past week we did the letter L for Ladybugs. My hubby was worried this subject was a little girly, but we did mostly talk about bugs so I think that made him happy! Click here to see or download my lesson plan.
For our art project one day I taped a letter L on construction paper and had the kiddos put paint all over the paper..... the paint didn't all end up on the project but some turned out in the end with a little help from me.

When the paint dried we took of the tape and the picture looked like this:


For our game I put masking tape on the carpet in the shape of an L and we did "L" exercises, like jumping on the L, or across it, or hopping on one foot. It turned out fun, even though the boys needed a little encouragement at first- lets just say I got a great workout that day!

Another game that was a hit (I am not sure if I put it on my lesson plan), was hide and seek with the letter L. One child hid the letter while the rest of us were in the other room, and tried to come and find the letter. It really turned out fun!

Confessions of a Homeschooer had a great download I turned into a file folder game, matching colors and shapes using the Ladybug shape.


Here are the links I got most of my ideas and free downloads:
http://first-school.ws/theme/animals/insects/ladybug.htm
http://confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/2011/01/letter-l-for-ladybug.html
http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/category/ladybugs
http://www.preschoolexpress.com/alphabet_station04/l_activities.shtml
http://www.123child.com/UBB/showthread.php?6584-the-Letter-quot-L-quot
http://www.ehow.com/how_4999526_plan-letter-l-activities-preschoolers.html

If you have any ideas or great websites I would love to hear about it!

Welcome to Mommy School- D is for dinosaurs

Ever since my little boy turned two I have tried to have a little learning time, and since I like to have lists and pretend to be organized I would try to put something together with a theme. Well it was ok, but I didn't really know how to do it so I tried looking up ideas online but I got frustrated since there is so much material out there, I didn't know what was good. So a few months ago I found this website Oopsey Daisy, she used to be a teacher but now stays home with her little boy, and she started putting up her lesson plans she did for her son. Well I fell in LOVE with them, this idea really got my mind going and it was something I have been trying to do unsuccessfully for a while. So I started doing my own. At first I did stuff every day but since my Older boy goes to preschool two times a week, I only do most of the stuff the days he is home, and the other days he is at school I do a younger version for my younger boy. So I will try posting my lesson plans and some of my websites if you want to give it a try.



A few weeks ago we did D is for dinosaurs! I was so excited since the boys have lots of stuff and they LOVE those silly dinos!
To see or download my lesson plan go here. This plan is totally changeable and I left room to change things around. I didn't do friday since I was going out of town that week.
Here are a few pictures of the things we did-
We decorated the letter D with foam dino stickers I got at the dollar store.


We played a matching game where my older boy matched the big and little letter d's. It was a great game for him to learn upper and lower case letters. And shocker- he totally got it and loved doing it!



We colored a picture of dinosaurs- gotta have coloring right?!


A few other things we did was I hid some of their plastic dino toys in a bin filled with dried beans, and we went on a dino hunt to find them once we found them all we counted how many we had, we stomped like dinosaurs, we read Tadpole Rex which my boys LOVED, and many dino books from the library.

Here are the sites I got my ideas from-
Totally Tots
Confessions of a Homeschooler -This site is where I got the letter sorting upper and lower case game.
Home School creations
No time for flashcards
Preschool Express

Let me know if you have any great ideas for mommy school and what lesson plans you do!