Learn Your Letters Learn to Serve Curriculum SALE!

Teach your child to serve…one letter at a time!  This 240+ page downloadable or hard copy kit  includes thorough lesson plans, games, crafts, recipes, memory verses,  Bible story suggestions, vocabulary stimulation and discussion, play,  books to read and so much more…all while encouraging service to God!

Each letter you study includes suggestions for service, such as “Take a new Bible to B__________” on Bb week, “Make soup for someone who is sick on Ss week, and “Deliver flowers  to F_______________” on Ff week.  Your child will make gifts or food,  offer help and learn to think of others.  As a family you can delight in  praying together about who you would like to serve and what form of  service you would like to offer!

This curriculum kit can be used as a supplement to what you are  currently doing to teach your child preschool basics…or it can be used  all on its own as a complete early learners curriculum tool.  It is absolutely not just for home schoolers.  Learn Your Letters, Learn to Serve is for any family who would enjoy learning and serving together with little ones.  In addition, Learn Your Letters, Learn to Serve Curriculum Kit may be purchased for use in a Sunday School Classroom or Preschool Classroom.

To get a feel for what this kit is like, help yourself to this free sample lesson!

What Learn Your Letters, Learn to Serve includes:

• 159 Page Learn Your Letters, Learn to Serve Book of ideas,  instructions, recipes, tutorials and service planners  (the majority of  this book can be left paperless, unless you choose to print it and bind  it)


• Alphabet Practice Packet (26 pages of printable letter writing practice)


• Alphabet Project Packet (printable projects that go along with various lessons)


• Memory Verse Packet** (26 printable memory verses to decorate and place on the wall or in a binder)


• Parent Planning Packet (planning pages, teaching suggestions, scheduling ideas)

 Recommended for ages 2-7.  I am starting to use this curriculum with my preschool plan!

Learn Your Letters Learn to Serve Curriculum Kit

On sale until July 6!

Only $35

You will see that it is normally $45, but if you click on Add to Cart it automatically comes up as $35.

Summer Reading Challenge 2012 Week #4

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Week #1-77

Week #2-69

Week #3-58

Week #4- 60



Total so far-264

Goal- 500

July Monthly Plan

BIBLE: 

*Bible Verses:
I verse- "May my prayer be set before you like Incense."  Psalm 141:2

J verse- "I will rejoice in the Lord, I will Joy in the God, in the God of my salvation." Habbukuk 3:18

From Songs for Saplings 
We are making a little book for these verses and we sing them everyday during our "Bible study" time.
And while we learn our Bible verses for each letter of the alphabet we are also learning the sign language for that letter.

Bible verse activities and printables from Totally Tots

ALSO---We are reading a verse in the Bible every day this summer.  Come join our Summer Bible Reading Adventure and sign up HERE.

And this month we will start reading from a children's Bible that was given to us by grandma called The Bible Story Ten Volume Set by Arthur Maxwell.  I have read many Bibles and Bible story books to my kids, but I'm excited to start this longer series!  See my Summer Worship Series for ideas on what Bibles I have read to my kids.

LESSONS:
*Milk N' Honey Preschool:
Last month we started Preschool.  I know it is summer, but it will take me about 2 years to get through all my stuff I have planned before I start teaching Kindergarten, so here we go!   See my Preschool Plans. I've been busy working on a lapbook that I will use for each letter.  This month we will at least do letter B.  See my Pinterest board for letter B.  Also here are my lessons plans for Letter B.

Last month we did letter A.  Here is the link to what I did with Shrade.

Letter A- lapbook with books, crafts and activities
Blog post

*Brightly Beaming Toddler:   Jessna is now 14 months old and has moved to the next level in the Nursery Age lessons. I am having so much fun doing things with her.  She is a sponge!

This curriculum includes 24 lesson plans.  There are 2 lessons for each month of your toddler's life from 13 months to 24 months of age.  You can spend approximately 2 weeks on each lesson plan with your toddler.  The lessons are geared to a toddler's development as he/she progresses through the second year of life.  Keep everything fun and only do activities when your toddler wants to.

14 months: Lesson 3

14 months: Lesson 4

*Sensory Play:
-water play- loves this!
-playdough 
-outside!

Everyday Sensory Alphabet Activities by Melitsa Avila

We will be using a lot of these activities when we learn the letters!

*Literature Connection
Right now we are reading alphabet, color and counting books from lists at the library.

*Daily Music time: Songs from Music Notes and CD's we get at the library. 


*Art:
 -watercolor painting
-using paintbrush
-coloring
-chalk drawing outside

*Field Trips:
Playdates
MOPS Park Days
Library story time for Preschool
Mall playground
Nature Center
Exploring new parks with friends
Outdoor concerts


Pretend Play:
-building a fort
-cooking
-dress up with scarves and hats

*Other Activities
Check out my Pinterst Boards for Preschool Ideas! 


We are also working through a BIG Preschool Workbook for ages 3-5.

*Skills/Chores:
 What Shrade is working on: 3.5 years of age
-Responding with "yes, mama" without whining or crying
-brushing teeth
-brush hair
-playing gently with sister
-setting the table
-wipe up spills
-sort laundry

*Academic
-cutting
-tracing
-letter sounds

Jessna is working on:
*first moments of discipline- what to touch, what not to touch
*learning how to sign "more"
*learning to sign "all done"
*playing in play pen for 10-15 min independently

I get a lot of these skills/chores from What Every Child Should Know Along the Way (Teaching practical life skills in every stage of life.) by Gail Martin.  I HIGHLY recommend this book that has so many practical ways to teacher your child along with many Bible verses.  I will be sharing more about this book this summer.

Summer Bible Reading Adventure- July

Hi Everyone!  How are you doing with your Summer Bible Reading Adventure?  My prayer is that you are reading from the Bible everyday with your kids.

Shrade and our reading chart

Go to Scripture Adventures for a FREE download of a Summer Reading Calendar for July.

And here is my Summer Bible Reading Plan for July printable. Both June and July are on this document. This document is Shared, but if you can't access it, please email me at shondaet@gmail.com.

Remember you do not have to read the same verses as we do, but I would like you read at least ONE verse everyday with your child.  Think of how to open your conversation about God's Word.  Everyday I tell my son that we are reading words from God.  What does He want us to know?  I also talk a little bit about the verse and we put a sticker on the number of the day.  He looks forward to our daily Bible reading.  He says, "Mommy, are we going to read from the Bible today?"  Yes!!

Are you new?  You can still join!  Fill out the form below and every month I will email you to see how you did.  I will give a prize to the family that completes the challenge with the most days read and answers an ending survey.   Prize will be a children's Bible. Prize awarded at the end of the summer.

Join Summer Bible Reading Adventure

For those of you who completed the June Bible reading, 

please fill out the check in form by July 10.  Thanks, Shonda

Check-In for June

What's on our Bookshelf? Jessna's Picks: ABC is for Circus by Patrick Hruby

 

Jessna is back to share another book pick: ABC is for Circus by Patrick Hruby.  This book is definitely an eye catcher with it's bright colors and shapes.  Jessna immediately took to this book and loves to point at the pictures.  This is a board book and very good for babies, it also introduces kids to the circus!

I love books!

 

Highlights from Letter A Lessons for Preschool (Age 3.6)

Here it is!  Our first lesson for "Preschool!"  I can see that this will be developed over time, but I'm excited to start piecing together a great first school experience at home with my son.  I was a K teacher for 12 years and had everything curriculum-wise handed to me.  I made up a lot of things to do on my own, but for the most part, it was already set up.  Not so for Preschool at home.  For one thing we are on a very tight budget so I'm trying to find the least expensive way to have a wonderful Preschool experience.  Much of what I will do I have gathered from a variety of sources, but I make it all fit together.  So come journey with me on the wonderful adventure of Preschool.  I plan to take about 2 years to go through the whole alphabet with this system.  By that time I will be ready to homeschool Kindergarten.  So here we go!

First of all, I want to share my lapbook that basically hold a lot of information (books to read, verses, Bible story reference, topics to study) plus a few poems, reusable worksheets (I just put contac paper on top of the worksheet that I glued to the folder) and a book.  I couldn't fit everything on here that I wanted so I have several loose sheets that I have in an extra packet. I will have links to some of those worksheets in my lessons. Everything I do will be based on this lapbook.  See my Preschool Plans for places where I get my printables.

And here are all my Letter A ideas on Pinterest.  Check there especially for the crafts!

Although I'm focusing a lot on letters I will be doing lots of number sense and math activities too.  

I started off writing ALL of my lesson plans, but I don't think I will be able to keep up with it every week, so I'm going to give you some highlights, books we read and some links.  You can find most of my ideas on Pinterest.

Bible verse of the month:  "A soft answer turns away wrath." Proverbs 15:1
From Raising Rock Stars Preschool

Books we read that I recommend: 

Highlights of activities and crafts:

Apple Counting book

Apple tree dice game

Pretending to be Johnny Appleseed

lowercase a craft (Shrade did all of the gluing)

a is for astronaut

Proverbs 15:1 from Rock Star Preschool

Anthill snack- graham crackers and chocolate chips

Anthill craft with Aa

straws and pipe cleaners for A

Writing A- Shrade did it himself!

Apple Waffle Cookies- YUM! 

 APPLE WAFFLE COOKIES (No oven required)

1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup softened margarine
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
a dash of cloves
1/2 cup peeled, shredded apples
nonstick cooking spray
Waffle Iron

Beat together the sugar and margarine; then add the eggs and vanilla. Slowly mix in the dry ingredients. Add the apples. Preheat the waffle iron; then spray it with nonstic cooking spray. Drop a heaping teaspoon of dough onto each corner of the waffle iron. Close the lid; then bake the cookies for 1 1/2 minutes or until they are brown. When the cookies have cooled, sprinkle them with powder sugar. This recipe make approximately four dozen cookies.

Finding his seat on the "airplane"

 Highlights of Links:

My (very rough) lesson plan for Letter A

 

*Lowercase a craft
*Apple tree dice game
*Worksheets at Education.com for letter A
*Alphabet Letter A activities and crafts from First School (I use these on my lapbook)

*Alligator Printables

Source: totallytots.blogspot.com via Shonda on Pinterest