Phonics Chart and More Summer Planning

Good Afternoon, 

     Are you having a Sunday fun day? Or a lazy one like me? I love staying in all day and not having to deal with the outside word. What have yenz been up to this weekend? I have been trying to find printable's to take with us on our vacation over the summer. It's never to early to start planning!

To help any of you looking for some good websites to find activities these are a couple really good ones: 

If you are looking for:

• Dot to dot 
• Hidden pictures
• Mazes
• Cross words
• Word searches 
• Find the difference 
• + tons more

both Activity Village  and All Kids are great resources for you!

However what I am most excited about Tangrams!

If you have never heard of them before this is what they are:

http://www.tangram-channel.com/

      You are given a silhouette of something and then you have one box of shapes and using one complete box you try and make the picture. The website Tangram Channel is amazing because it has so many different silhouettes and then it shows you the answer, and after you see the answer you can print them out for personal use. I'm so excited for Monkey play, she LOVES puzzles! I excited to do it too though!    

      To make the Tangram box you can just print it out and laminate or print it out on card stock. What I did was used some foam I got from the Dollar tree and cut out the shape, one down side was my foam was rectangular, It took 2 sheets to get a full box, but I did 9 sheets of different colors only. They definitely are not perfectly cut, but I like that they will last long. 

     But while I was doing all this I have been trying to think of a way to get some Phonics into Monkey's day to day, we don't always have time for games. So I made a Phonic Chart, it has 100 different Vowel sounds, Consonant Blends, Silent letters, Endings. It is all on one page with one or two examples for each one. I'm hoping Monkey can go over the page either Daily or Weekly just to refresh on them. She can also refer to the chart while reading independently and is stuck on a word. Lastly I can take sections of it when we focus on certain vowels or blends, so we have something to refer to. 

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Hope you enjoy it, please let me know how you are liking it, and how you are using it! I'd love to hear from you all!

Thanks Bunches for Stopping by,

Hannah

Getting ready for SUMMER!

Hello hello hello,

     I hope everyone had a great weekend! Monday is over and we are on to Tuesday, one more day and we will be halfway through the week! I can see Friday already. Though I go to UTA (University of Texas at Arlington) and only have classes on Tuesday and Thursday so today is my Monday and Thursday is my Friday. Which makes it really tough because ever morning I wake up and don't want to go because I either just had a nice long weekend or am about to! (I have only missed one class and I was sick :-)

     But SUMMER is in the plans! I'm so excited for our trip to be soon. Monkey does not know when or where we are going so I am going to keep the destination on the DL, but round trip we will be driving for 52 hours!!!! and we only have a week to do it! With all the driving though I still want to keep Monkey learning, and her cousin is coming with us. She is is 5th grade this year, and I didn't think it would be fair to Monkey to have to do some school work when she didn't. So I am now putting together 5/6th grade activities as well. (I am so out of my league!) But I think it is coming along well. (I promise I am not working them to hard! Just keeping them fresh!)

     I started with some basics Number of the Day and Word of the Day 5/6/7th grade edition. So far I have completed the Number of the Day, working on the Word of the day. 

     The basic outline is to multiple a four digit number and also divide it. Then use either the number of the day or word of the day to create a word problem. There are 27 different numbers, so 27 days worth.

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Cursive Handwriting!! and crossing the middle line?

Good Afternoon,

     I hope everyone's week is going amazing! Only one day left and it is Friday! I feel like this week has just flown by! But ready for a great weekend, Fuller House comes out!!!! Who else is going to watch it all by Monday? I know Monkey and I are, we have been planning this for months. Also we have a birthday party to go to, the birthday boy is turning 6, what do you get boys? We got him a castle tent I hope he loves it!

     Today though is not Friday, so we have been practicing spelling words! We did a practice spelling test and after Monkey completed it I rewrote all her spelling words in cursive. (BTW she got an A++) I just wanted to show her how cool cursive looks. By 2nd grade I had already learned cursive! I think it is so sad they do not teach it anymore. Though my name does not look that pretty in cursive. It is like a little mountain range is going on in the middle of my name.  

     But to the title of today's post, why do I mention the middle line? Maybe you are wondering what this middle line is. Well I am no expert on it, though what I have learned is it help cross the invisible line in our brain that connects our creative side to our academic side. There are exercises that can be done and different activities that can be done. Here is a great website that talks about it ilslearningcorner. 

     Also though I've read about cursive writing is able to help cross that middle line. Which make sense considering writing is a academic thing and cursive is an art. A while back I put a cursive handwriting activity together to teach Monkey, but time got in the way and I plan on teaching it to her this summer. But maybe one of you will have time now so I wanted to share it with you, and if not now hopefully later it will come in handy for you!

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Thanks Bunches for stopping by,

Hannah 

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Story Explorers

Hello Everyone

         Sorry it has been so long, it has been a very hectic year. From some of the hardest struggle my family has experienced, to some of the best things to ever happen for us! But now it is 2016... which is already flying by!

         Though the learning never stopped! Monkey is now in 3rd grade and I am already getting things ready for the summer! Crazy! However I wanted to share somethings I worked on over the last 12 months. 

         Monkey has changed schools since last year. Her school rating now doubled from the school she went to last year, which has been a big challenge for her! We absolutely love, love, love her new school. Though she did start out academically way behind her 3rd grade class. We are so proud of her though, with lots of hard work she improved a whole grade level in 6 months, so now we are only a little behind. But with 4th grade is right around the corner there is no stopping! 

        Our biggest struggle is reading and reading comprehension! Which snowballs into every other subject. I didn't want us to just be able to read words though, I wanted her to comprehend it! So I created Story explorers for her:

This is to help your student dig deeper and think about there text, improving their reading comprehension.

It is one page that offers 6 different ways for the student to explore reading comprehension in the story they just read. 

It is not specific to any book, and can be used with a variety of different books and levels.

This handout will help with: Vocabulary development, prediction, character description and development, and providing details of the story. 

Here is and example of it:

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I hope this can help your Readers with their reading comprehension! Please let me know what you think! 

Thanks Bunches,
Hannah