First Week of Mommy School!

This week I started "Mommy School" with Little Man!  It was a lot of work to prepare lesson plans and materials again.... and it was a bit different than teaching first grade!  We did our learning in short, rapid spurts.  I aimed for about a half hour in the morning and a half hour in the evening!

Here is a little picture sneak peek into our week:

Letter of the Week:  C

Target Vocabulary Words:  Car, caterpillar, cat, cow, cookie

Theme:  Cars and Trucks

Number:  Introduction to counting

Color/Shape:  Introduction to colors

Nursery Rhyme:  One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Theme activities:

* We played in a sensory tub with sand, blocks, cars, and trucks. (#2 above)

* We painted a car by driving matchbox cars through paint and then onto paper. (#4 above)

* We experimented with texture by covering car ramp with aluminum foil, saran wrap, sand paper, etc., and discovering how it affected the cars' speed. (#5 above)

* We drove cars and trucks through play dough. (#7 above)

* We made and ate race car snacks.

Field Trips:

* We took a field trip to Costco.  This was the highlight of the week!

* We went on a picnic and counted how many blue cars we saw, how many red cars, etc.

* We went for a walk and used sidewalk chalk to draw roads and a town for Little Man to drive his matchbox cars.

* We went to the car wash!  Little Man "drove" the car while we vacuumed.  We came home and had our own matchbox car wash in the bath tub! (#8 above)

Color Activities:

* Went color shopping by taking a basket from room to room and finding objects that were a certain color.

* We created colored ice cubes with food coloring. (#9 above)

* We graphed matchbox cars by color using car color cards.  (#1 above)

Counting Activities:

* We counted cars to learn one-to-one correspondence. (#3 above)

* We made a caterpillar out of paper circles and counted them with chocolate chips.

Other C-themed activities:

* We created a "C" word wall with pictures of family members and logos (like Costco!) that start with C.  

* We made cookies in the shape of the letter "C" after reading If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

* We taped a giant letter C on our kitchen floor using painters tape.  Little Man traced the C with his cars.

* We played "Who Stole the Cookie From the Cookie Jar?"

* We learned about caterpillars.  We made a caterpillar out of the letter C using pipe cleaner, google eyes, and pompoms.  (#6 above)

We also had our first Muffin Tin meal.  Little Man LOVED his C-themed meal in his little muffin tin!!  We will definitely be doing this again!

I am so excited with how our first week of Mommy School went!  Little Man woke up every morning, eager and thrilled to discover the "C" word wall and couldn't wait to learn more!  It required a bit of hard work, but a definite success!