Little Hands to Heaven: Week 2

Week Two: The Earth and the Flood (Bb)

We had such a fun week learning about all about Noah and God's promises this week. Here are some of our favorite moments from our second week with Heart of Dakota's Little Hands to Heaven!

We learned a new finger play! Here is Mase showing us part of it:

And the boat did float...

/b/, /b/, /b/ (he's making the letter b sound while rocking back and forth...just like Noah might have on the ark!)

We pulled out the wikki sticks to have fun making letters.

We made another page to go in our number book. The two handprints were a reminder that Noah used his own two hands to build the ark.

We acted out all the different types of animals going on the ark. A lot of the Bible lesson plans involve acting out the story that was read each day. This is such a fun way to help the stories that they read in the Bible come to life.

We really do have a lot of fun in school. But, please don't think that our school is always perfect and my children love every single second of it, because we all know that would be a lie! Remember, we're talking about teaching a 4 year old and a 2 year old! There are plenty of moments that look like this. Just keeping it real for ya!

But, then I tell them it's time for "Ziggy school", and all is magically right in the world. They sure do love All About Reading lessons.

Here Mason was playing a game called "Get out of the wagon" I put three cards on the wagon, and he takes the card that does not rhyme with the others and tells it to, you guessed it, "get out of the wagon". He's super dramatic about it and literally throws the card that doesn't rhyme.

This week, we had some dear friends come over so their mama could get an idea of what a typical homeschool day looked like in our home before she began her homeschooling journey. She probably came away with three lessons:

1. Megan gets her children through their "school" time with lots of snacks. 
2. It's pretty chaotic...in an organized sort of way.
3. Have fun and go with the flow (seriously, it's only preschool).

We had a lot of fun with all four kiddos! 

Their favorite activity was the sink or float science experiment. The key idea for this lesson was that God told Noah how to build the ark so that it would float.

Every week we do a Hide and Seek page where they learn how to recognize the letter of the week within text. They also do a Count on Me page. Here, Mason drew 2 raindrops (since we were learning about the flood) so he can practice counting by twos. Younger kiddos can draw 1 item in each box to practice counting by 1s.

Each week, I've been trying get books that go along with the unit we are doing in Little Hands. We had Noah's ark from Sonlight P3/4, but found Big Bear Hug, The Busy Beaver, and letter Bb book at the library. All of these books went along perfectly with this week's fingerplay and theletter B theme.

Maxden's favorite part of school is our morning calendar time! And yes, this shows you all just how far behind on blogging I am...

The boys had fun building their own "ark" and bringing all of their stuffed animals into it.

We learned about rainbows and God's promise to never send another flood. I deviated a bit from the rainbow craft in the LHTH lesson plans, but I knew the boys would love painting their own rainbows. I think they turned out so cute!

Each week in little hands, there is a day where me make the masking tape letter on the floor. This is such a fun activity for the boys. It gets them moving and thinking about the letter of the week. They loved putting blocks on the letter B and I had them say the /b/ sound every time they placed a block.

Once they were finished, they wanted to continue playing with the B. I love how it became a race car track...

and then a church service! See Mason delivering the sermon?! ;) The things these kids think of!

We also made the cutest letter of the week craft! 

We really enjoyed our second week of school!