T is for Train

For this Friday's Showcase at The Ramblings of a Crazy Woman. we are sharing what we did for our T is for Train theme.Today is our last day with our two week theme on T is for Train. It was fun and the boys loved it. We read so many books, watched some educational videos and we promised the boys when the weather is cooler, we can go to the Texas Transportation Museum. We have been there before

Pattern Block Trains & modes of Transportation

This week we are continuing our T is for Train theme and I wanted to include math manipulatives with it. I found a great site called Kelly's Kindergarten that had a two flies available for Pattern Block patterns to download. Just click the links under Pattern Block pictures. There is a set 1 and a set 2. After downloading mine, I copy and pasted the ones I wanted to print into another file so as

Letter Sounds Teaching Tub

Last week, we read the book: "My T sound box" during our first week of a T is for Train theme and we went on a letter T hunt collecting objects that begin with the letter T. After our T hunt, we began our Letter Sounds Teaching Tub Activity.The Letter Sounds Teaching Tub is something we use each Monday during the week we are learning a new letter.Materials:A small plastic tub, basket or workbox (

Book of the Week: The Little Engine That Could

We started our T is for Train theme recently and I wanted to share of one of books we read.Book: "The Little Engine that Could" by Watty Piper.Summary: In this well-loved classic, a little train carrying oodles of toys to all of the good boys and girls is confronted with a towering, seemingly impassable mountain. As nicely as they ask, the toys cannot convince the Shiny New Engine or the Big

The Frog Prince and Jump Frog Jump ( mini unit)

As promised, we did a mini theme unit on Frogs. We were not able to do it last Monday because we had extended family over so the boys asked to do it on Saturday. Can you imagine that? I must have been dreaming...!My boys like frogs as most boys do. I am glad we were able to include Frogs after our F is for Fish week (two week study).Before we read our book. We found some interesting information

Beginning Letter Sounds: Letter T cards

This Tuesday we began our two week theme of T is for Train (Transportation theme) I made my third Beginning Letter Sounds worksheet and this week it is on the Letter T. We used ours to make a Letter T collage. I printed another set for laminate as a Letter T matching game.I am sharing the cards with my readers! Feel free to download and print the cards by clicking on the thumbnail image below.

Ocean Creature Cards

Last week I made some Ocean Creature cards for the boys to use for our F is for Fish theme. I am sharing with my readers! Feel free to download and print the cards by clicking on the thumbnail image below.There are 9 pages shown in this set with 6 cards on each the Ocean creature pages. There are a 18 Ocean creatures shown with a matching picture card. I have included word cards provided for each