Hands On Math and Art!

Its been a while since I have been excited enough about a “mommy school lesson” to blog about it. I am preparing to homeschool my oldest next year and am enjoying dabbling in a few curriculum recommendations when I get the chance.  Todays post is about TLC ART. This is a program that one of my dear kindergarten teacher friends does in her kindergarten class weekly.  I decided to do one of the online sample lessons with my crew! Take a peek.
Materials given to each child.

Children do not know what they are making but must listen and follow directions. 
For example:
“Find your black rectangle. Glue it horizontally to the bottom of your paper”

“Place your blue rectangle horizontally on the left side of your paper.”

“Place your red square on top of your red rectangle”

Other Math Vocabulary/directions used in this lesson were:
“fold the rectangle in half”
“cut a circle”
Wa….lah! Our final product
Zachariah…Kindergarten age 5. 11 months

Levi…Pre K4…age 5. 3 months

Ava..PK3…Age 4.1 month

I did have to guide my kids and teach them what these vocabulary words meant during this lesson.
I LOVE this….and didn’t waste any time ordering 3 more units….stay tuned for ABCS, Space, and Stages of a Butterfly

Art To My Door

One of the things I love most about my friends is discovering all the unique gifts and talents we each have to bring to the table. One of my friends, Isela is a wonderful art teacher! I have a group of friends who often get together and this time Isela brought an art lesson to my door with her kids!

First, she started off with a book for all the kids to identify hidden shapes in pictures. This group of kids ranged from
ONE

to
THREE

to
Almost FOUR

and FIVE

The children started by using pastels to draw circles.
(this little guy got to use the teacher’s model)
Then they used another color to continue drawing circles to the outer line of their paper.

Then they carefully used a q-tip mix the colors…

Lastly, they painted with watercolors around the individual squares….

creating their own personal masterpiece!


Here are some snap shots from our very fun Art Day!

Loving Letter L…

Well, Triple Smiles is on our 2nd week of Letter L. The first was last summer and one of the first letters we tackled. However; after the kids started preschool, I am working at home on the same letter they are learning at school each week.

Revisit our first letter L week here

I have fallen in love with another blog Teach Preschool The author is a preschool director who shares wonderful quick activities to do with your kiddos! Check out the blog here. Recently Teach Preschool spotlighted this fun activity.

painting on the glue….

sprinkling blue sand

Triple Smiles L’s!

Fun with Mixing Colors and Letter K

This is just a real simple quick activity the kids LOVED! We started with blue paint in a plastic bag….

then added yellow paint….

Squish it all together…..

I used a sharpie in advance to write our letter of the week on the bag…then the kids can coved the letter with the wooden letter parts.

Then we worked on visual memory skills by having the kids duplicate the letter on a separate mat….

Yes! We have more work to do on the Letter K!