Latticed Learning: Week 3

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Welcome back to another installment of Latticed Learning!  Today I'll be sharing the third week of our journey with you.  You'll get a chance to see what we did, the resources we used (click here to see what we're using week after week), and hopefully come away with lots of fun ideas for things to do with your own little one!

Bible Lesson

Noah (pages 26-33 in this Bible and 23-29 in this one)

Memory Verse

1 John 3:16 - This is the third song on this album, which I've raved about before.  I also created this card:

to post on the fridge each week (and then add to a mini photo album from the local dollar store when we take it down) and I'm amazed that Gv can say this first verse - minus the reference - by herself already!

You can download your own copy of this card for free here!  Want the whole set right now?  Get them here.

Saint 

Catherine (I know nothing about the lives of the saints, but when I saw these cuter-than-cute cards, I decided they gave me the perfect excuse to learn!  They're honestly more for me than Gv at this point, although she can put the name to the card after having it up on the fridge and talking about it all week.)

Letter

C (Print out your free "C" phonics card here!)

Topic to Explore

Life Cycles 

Shape

Circle (I'm kind of going in order of vertices/sides and each one will last for several weeks.)

Number

2 (Like I said in this post about the alphabet, we'll talk about all (well, maybe not all) the numbers every week, but I'm choosing one to focus on each week and you'll see some repetition as time goes on with a few of them.)

Best Books We Read This Week

Noah's Ark



This has been a favorite every since Grammy and Papa gave it to Gv soon after she was born.  It's been nice to focus on it again.

On Noah's Ark



Because there's just so much to get out of a Jan Brett book!

An Egg is Quiet



Although the content of this book is a bit over Gv's head, the illustrations are gorgeous and we enjoyed just spending time looking over all the different types of eggs shown on each page.

Pig's Egg



This was a book that we brought with us camping and although we've read it again and again, none of us are sick of it yet.  I think the critters are just so darn cute in this thing!

The Beautiful Butterfly Book



I can tell this will be a fabulous book for years to come.  It has flaps to lift, dials to turn, fuzzy caterpillars to feel, and more facts about butterflies than you can take in at one sitting.  At this stage, we've mainly enjoyed reading the portions that focus on the life cycle and body parts, but I can see Gv really learning to distinguish between butterfly types from this book in the future.

Science Vocabulary Readers:  Life Cycles

 

I have several of these vocabulary reader sets from my classroom and think they are great introductions to nonfiction topics.  They're well organized, have lots of photos, give just the right amount of facts, and even work great for reading comprehension and writing lessons.  If I were a zillionaire, I'd definitely have every one of these that's out there!

Other Great Books We Read

To be honest, I love these books just as much as the others, so maybe I should have added them to the list above:

Fly, Monarch!  Fly!

From Tadpole to Frog

Tadpole and frog

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Songs We Played By

I went through all the children's songs on my iPod and created a playlist just for this week.  Here are some of the best selections from our list:

This is How We Know from this album helped Gv learn our memory verse

Elementary, My Dear from this

C is for Cookie, the classic I shared here

My Butterfly from the album I talked about here

The Frog Song from this post

I Know a Chicken from my post on this fun gal

And so many more, but I'll let you search through your own music collection to see what types of life cycle-related songs you can add to a playlist.

Videos We Explored

This video matched up with our Bible lesson perfectly.

We did "C" things on this site.

We watched this clip and a few of the others for the letter "C."

This video fit perfectly not only for the number 2, but our Noah's Ark lesson, too!

How We Played

We did lots of things to learn about Noah:

I printed out this adorable mini flip book (scroll down to find it), punched a hole in the corner of each page, and stuck it all on a ring (a plastic one I'd had in my classroom, but you could use one like this) so that Gv could have something handy to carry around and refer to.  This was such a hit, I'm planning to use this idea for every week I can and then keep all the ring books in a basket.  G and I were both amazed at how well Gv could retell the whole story, using these cards, after just one day!

We printed out, colored and glued (I actually colored the cardstock version while Gv colored a paper version) this cute doorknob hanger to put in Gv's room.

I printed out page 17 from this mega pack and let Gv have some gluing fun.  She'd name each animal, squirt glue on the back, and then I'd tell her to place it in a specific position around the ark (on the left, right, above, below).   She did pretty well with these positional words, but it's definitely an area we can continue to talk about.

We displayed this prominently all week (it was the cake topper from my baby shower):

Remembering how much Gv enjoyed this rainbow scavenger hunt idea from St. Patrick's Day, I came up with this activity, which was a huge hit (you can read about it here, if you missed it before). 

We also did a few things (besides reading books) to correspond to our life cycle topic:

We made a bunch of different life cycles to go along with our favorite books.  We pretty much did one a day and they really provided a fun way to play with what we'd been reading.  Click here to see all the details of what we did, but here's a sneak peek:

We acted out the butterfly life cycle:

Be as quiet as an egg:

Curl up into a ball

Crawl like a caterpillar:

Fuzzy action shot of crawling on the floor

Be as still as a chrysalis:

Grab your feet (pull them up to your head, if you can) and balance on your bum

Fly like a butterfly:

Another fuzzy action shot of all her wild arm flapping

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What's your favorite thing that we did this week?  I'd love to hear!  Either leave a comment below or email me at lisahealy (at) outlook (dot) com.

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