Along the Alphabet Path - O Week

Well we have finally started along our Alphabet Path again. I was a little preoccupied with getting all my Alphabet Plans finished as well as our Early Learning Plans for this year before we started full on. I found that trying to do a week full of activities while planning was as stressful as I remembered and so we took a little break to allow this to happen.
Now e have all this organised I am hoping we will be racing through the Alphabet path and the Phonics with great results for both girls especially.

So to start our O week we read from the alphabet books we usually use looking at the M page of each of these books:
The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies
Waldorf Alphabet Book
L M N O P and All the Letters A to Z
An Alphabet of Catholic Saints
The Angels' Alphabet (Lamb Time)
Museum ABC
A Stands for Angel
A is for Altar B is for Bible
Letters from Heaven
Saints
More Saints: Lives & Illuminations
Once again we traced and  did work with the letters using various hands on and printed sheets from our Planning List

Moran and her work

Cornmeal

Hand writing Aids

 

Moran's Work pages

 

Moran working on her Flash Cards

Myffwyn's work

Corn meal

Handwriting aids

 

Myffwyn's work pages

Our little Arwen doing block towers and other pre school activities with Autumn

Books we read: not in order of pictures
Animal OrchestraOpen up your suitcase
Commotion in the Ocean
Out and About through the year.
Oscar Cat about town
Owen and the mountain
One wooly wombat
Old Macdonald ahda  farm
Over in the Mountain
Only one woof
Can you do this Old Badger
Otto the bear
Old Bear and his Friends
Owl Moon
One Hundred and One Dalmatians

Rachel and Obadiah
Obadiah the Bold
Thy Friend Obadiah
Goody O'Grumpity
Ox Cart Man
This Old Man
One Summer Day
Peter's Old House
Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato
Only Opal
Okra and Akacia
One Morning in Maine

Our saint this week from our Collection was St Odilia

We really only made one actual craft and that was a painted Octopus each made out of toilet roll holders

I had some very keen little painters for this activity and then just drew on the face and cut up the sides. Roll up each tentacle with a pencil and you have a cute little octopus

They really were quite quick and fun to make

O Shape cut out bread rings with fairy sprinkles on top

We actually had quite a few food related activities...of course this was most enjoyed by all and the older children as usual were not adverse to being involved in these activities.

These were the O shape foods we used to string necklaces and other edible string games.

We made some Owl sandwiches based off Jessica's ones but our bread was different and they don't look quite the same.

In fact they were still very popular and everyone wanted to make their own

Like I said even big girls couldn't resist the fun!

These were the O shapes and some cotton string all ready for the eating I mean threading

Moran was most diligent with her  threading

Arwen required help from Autumn

Myffwyn wasn't as keen to thread them

Corbyn ate more than he threaded

Arwen's finished necklace

Here Autumn eat some more!!!!!!!!!

A finished edible work of art.

Moran with a few more pieces of edible art. She really enjoyed this and made rings and bangles etc for quite a while.

All in all it was quite a successful week and now we move on to..... P Week

Blessings to you and your homes,

Free Learn to Read Program

This is just a quick information tip for those of you who may be interested in a free reading programme.
Now I know it has been all over FB but sometimes  people miss out on information so I just wanted to let you know here as well. Also it ends at the end of January only a couple of days away so make sure you take advantage if you think it may be useful to your child's learning.

I have just finished down loading this programme worth $249 from Funnix.com for FREE!
Here is a quick rundown from the site:
The program consists of 220 daily lessons, so it takes kids farther than most beginning-reading programs-- from being non readers to reading on the third-grade level."

The free version of Funnix is electronic. You download the entire package of 220 lessons and other material onto your computer, and you have everything you need to teach the program. The steps of what you do and how you do it are spelled out in Teacher’s Guide, which you review before presenting the program. Workbook and textbook activities accompany the lessons. You print these.

When you teach Funnix, you and you child sit next to each other and watch the computer screen. A narrator presents a series fast-paced exercises in each 30-minute lesson. The narrator asks questions, and your child responds--out loud. Your job is to reinforce correct responses and correct any mistakes by following simple rules for "navigating" through the material.

I hope this was of interest to some of you!

 Blessings to you and your homes,