Mm Week

Mm Book Basket

When the Moon is Full

Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me

Kitten's First Full Moon

On the Moon

The Pied Piper of Peru

The Moon

Maple Syruping Tour

This is how people of the past used to heat the water to extract the maple out of the sap.

Tapping the trees.

Here's the "modern" way of extracting the maple out of the sap. It's a lot of hardwork, but oh so worth it!

Ll Week

Ll is for Lighthouses

The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge

Keep the Lights Burning Abbie

The Lighthouse Cat

Beacons of Light: Lighthouses

Kk Week

Kk is for Kingdom

Sorting the toob animals by kingdom

What is the Animal Kingdom?

Kk is for Kindness

The Kindness Quilt

Jj Week

Jj is for Jungle

From homeschoolshare we used components to create a lapbook for The Great Kapok Tree.

We also made finger puppets for The Umbrella. The Umbrella

Jungle Drums

Over in the Jungle

Nature's Green Umbrella

The Great Kapok Tree

Gg Week

Gg is For Saint George, God, Gardens and Geography

Gg Week Book Basket

Arctic Ocean to Zimbabwe

Me on the Map

Jack's Garden

Saint George and the Dragon

A Gift of Gracias

God Made Me

God

Gg is for Garden

Princess received this cute Fairy Garden Kit for Christmas and we thought it was perfect for Gg week. Last year we tried to grow various seeds, but they all turned out moldy and gross. I can still smell the nasty rotting seeds. This kit is so much fun and it does include some bean seeds, but mainly it contains grass seed. I'm still trying to locate the finished product picture, but the grass grew and it grew fast. Perfect for us!

Gg is for Gingerbread Baby
We read Gingerbread Baby and Gingerbread Friends
And made cute foam gingerbread foam friends.

Gg is for Geography
In addition to the geography books we read, we played with another Christmas present the kiddos received Leapfrog Tag Maps.

United States

World

Also, from here on out with the alphabet path books, we plan on pointing out where in the world the stories take place. If it should perk and interest, we may take a bit of a side lesson.

Ii Week

Ii is for St. Ignatius, Insects, I'm Sorry

This week was kind of a slower type of week. We were all finally recovering from a nasty flu-ish type of virus that lasted several weeks.

Ii is for Insects

Book Basket
Ant Cities
The Life and Times of the Ant
Bugs Are Insects
I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track
I Saw an Ant in a Parking Lot

Science and Nature

I just sent away for the larva to grow our own ladybugs! Here's the kit I bought a while back.
Insect Lore Ladybug Land

The weather is starting to warm up a bit--not much really, but we're hopeful. I purchased this

4 pc quality Bug Catcher set from amazon. The kiddos are very excited and have started to catch and observe spiders that are starting to pop up around the house.

Hh week

H is for St. Helen

H is for Helpful

H is for Homes Homes Around The World ABC: An Alphabet Book (A+ Books)

H is for Little House

I found most of the My First Little House illustrated picture books for a steal at Goodwill. Princess has really taken a liking for Laura and all her adventures in the Big Woods and the Prairie. We supplemented using this lapbook from Lapbook Lessons.

And I'm personally proud of myself for incorporating food with the stories. We used My Little House Cookbook and had many Little House meals. Princess felt such a sense of accomplishment as she did most of the cooking.

Making homemade butter

Little House Menu

Cornbread

Turkey Sausage

Strawberry Jam

Fresh squeezed lemonade

Hh is for History

This week we introduced the concept of history. We will complete one lesson a week using Mary Daly's First timeline paired with some excellent read alouds. I hope to include our history journey in separate posts in the coming months. Seriously, is you are looking for a basic timeline history designed for kindergarten-second graders, this is the timeline. It even includes copy work for each person or event on the timeline.

Ee Week

For whatever reason, I can not find any pictures from our Ee week we did many moons ago, but I wanted to include the list of books we read for Ee week. One theme for the week was about Eggs. In the springtime, through the local university, we will hatch chickens from eggs. I actually signed up for a course on embryology today. So, we will revisit this booklist in a few short months...
An Egg Is Quiet
Rechenka's Eggs
Green Eggs and Ham
An Extraordinary Egg
Chickens Aren't the Only Ones
First the Egg
Little Grunt and the Big Egg: A Prehistoric Fairy Tale

Books for Big Boy

Eli
The Little Engine That Could

Ee is for Endangered Animals
Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet

I also found some interesting information regarding Blessed Kateri and Saint Francis regarding each being the patroness and patrons of ecology and the environment at this website.

Ee is for Eucharist
The Little Caterpillar That Finds Jesus: A Parable of the Eucharist

Ee is for Eat Nicely
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?

Ff Week

Ff is for Flowers

Learn about flowers craft--extremely easy craft to explain the structure of the flower.

In the book basket

Flower Garden
Wildflowers, Blooms & Blossoms
Miss Rumphius

The Boy Who Grew Flowers

Ff is for Feelings and Fire Safety

Both subjects worth a second go around this year. Here's the link to last year's lists.