August 30, 2010

Today is the first day of school here in Alberta, so I thought it fitting to do a project. I'm not really planning to go full-speed with school til later in the month, but it's good to go for appearances, right? ;)

So today we went for a nature walk and collected leaves and other signs of the approaching Autumn season. Now, I have to admit that Alberta has got nothing on Nova Scotia for foliage. It's actually a pretty sad little show. But with enough persistence we did manage to find an assortment of shades to create our poster, entitled "The Colours of Fall". (See how I even made the extra effort to use the Canadian spelling there?)


Then we moved on to some coloring, cutting and pasting. I am attempting to strike a balance between C's need for K/Grade One challenges and A's beginning skills at the early pre-K level. So some things, like this project, fall right square in between the two:

The pages for this activity are here:
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/cutpaste-seasons.htm

Some big-kid work for C - including a math sheet of addition with numbers up to ten.

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/t.asp?b=m&t=http://www.dltk-holidays.com/fall/images/b-maze4.gif

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/t.asp?b=m&t=http://www.dltk-holidays.com/fall/images/bwordsearch-easy.gif

http://www.kidzone.ws/math/autumn/t_math.asp?add.asp?au=10&al=0&bu=10&bl=0&d=v

And finally, reading/vocabulary:

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/fall/mbrady.htm

New words: rare, beneath, content, gleaming, stark