Phonics – Bob Books – Just beginning

So, here we are already leaving our Phonics program to try something else.  So #2, Mr. Clown, is hard to deal with when it comes to reading out of a manual or workbook.  SO my dragging him through the mud with the Distar Reading program Teach your child to read in 100 lessons is not working!  It is not the method, it is the delivery.

So happy, I just came a cross Brandy at www.teachingwithbob.blogspot.com

She has lesson plans to progress your new to reading through the bob series with intentional reading.  We are going to start this next week.  She has phonics sounding, word building and reading at the first lesson.  She even helps you lay out a great notebook that can be your manual or just to record progress.

Being digital crazy as I am and looking for an excuse to use my laminator.  I decided to make cards that are just smaller than a baseball card, so when I laminate them, they will fit in baseball card sheets.  This way we can use the cards to make the words too.

Brandy lays out her method for getting started, here.

Lessons Day 1, 2, & 3

I hope this will be the nudge he needs to keep his interest.

~trish

Homemade donuts

   

My kids love donuts!  When I am shopping at midnight at Wal-mart, I will give the bakery shelf a look, but none look worthy my money.  I guess I was ruined with the Krispy Kreme at the corner of the university and going in at 9 pm for hot fresh donuts to prep me for a night of cramming.

I used to make these donuts when I was camping, but now as a mom charming my children, I make them about every 2 weeks.  I usually have everything I need; canaster of biscuits, oil, powdered sugar and milk. 

I quarter the biscuits and then fry them.  I make sure the oil is deep enough to cover the dough.  Here they are frying away. 

I then pile them on a plate.  I used to cover them in icing, but we love them warm and the icing would slide off them.  So anymore we just have the icing on the side and dip them.  This makes for a lot less mess.

And then they are gone.

~trish

Number Flashcards

I love printables!  I made these number tracing flash cards for my kids to practice their numbers with.  I printed them as 4x6 photos at the photo lab and then I laminated them.  This is probably the most expensive way to do it, but I had a friend print them so she could get her hands on the file to make a copy for her entire class.

I did redo the numbers, because I was able to get a new font for tracing.  So they look like this.

I am going to share them for you also.  I am using 4shared to access these files.  It is a total of 10 jpeg files.  To download, go here.

 

I love making flashcards.  If you have any ideas for some other ones, leave me a comment.

~trish