Batman School

So I totally had to prepare for this in secret. Planned, printed and laminated while Nadia was asleep and then put everything into hiding until I was sure we had time to complete it. The scream of delight was worth it all 🙂

Batman School
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This is what we started with and most of the printables came from the 1+1+1=1 site. I picked up an activity book at SuperTarget and some easy readers from the library. Nadia also wanted to wear her Batman PJ’s as much as possible while we worked on this throughout the week.

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We did sizing and patterns. Here Nadia had Batman say, “Look how BIG I got!”

Batman School
We put together a Heroes and Villains book. At the end I had a photo of Nadia on the “I am a good guy” page and she was thrilled! I should have video taped her going through the book and then seeing that at the end. Then we used the letter tiles to spell all the words in the book.

Batman School
We practiced writing upper and lower case B’s.

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Grammie was over one day so she played a game in the activity book.

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Nadia glued the heroes on one side and villains on the other. We did a find the letter game where I said letters and she had to find them as fast as possible.

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We did more pages out of the activity book and she did a lot of coloring. We also did numbers and a little addition.

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Are these guys cute or WHAT? I found them on the Toy a Day site.

On the last day I gave Nadia all the stickers from the activity book and she used them to decorate the lapbook. Here is what her lapbook looked like by the end.

Batman School

Batman School

Batman School

Mike read Nadia some of the “Brave and Bold” comics. Plus “My Frozen Valentine” and “Double Trouble” easy readers. We recorded the always campy original Batman from the 60s and let her watch an episode each night. She LOVED it; especially if BatGirl or the Joker were a part of the episode.

Chinese School Egg Hunt

The week before Easter the Chinese Language school that Nadia goes to had an Easter Egg hunt. Before the hunt they had class and made a rabbit craft. Miss Elaine told us that Nadia finished hers so fast that she helped Miss Elaine help all the other children make their rabbits. I knew all those crafts we do would pay off.

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Chinese School Egg Hunt

Right before the egg hunt – Nadia was freaked out and didn’t want to do it. (Click photo to see the whole album)

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Miss Elaine trying to encourage Nadia to participate.

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Now she’s excited.

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Nadia’s class after the hunt.

Egg Hunt - Chinese School

Egg Hunt - Chinese School

They had an adult contest for picking up jelly belly’s with chop sticks. I found I was really fast doing this and now I think I should eat all bites of Chinese food smaller to actually be able to pick them up. It was a fun little time.

Astronaut & Space School

Next up for Nadia’s preschool packs is Astronaut and Space.  I downloaded the pack from Homeschool Creations. The verse for this pack was Psalm 148:3 “Praise Him sun and moon; praise Him all you shining stars.” Here is what we started with (click the photo to see the  whole album):

Astronaunt Preschool Pack
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We read the following books:

  • On the Launch Pad – Michael Dahl
  • Space Boy – Leo Landry
  • There’s no place like Space – Tish Rabe
  • If you decide to go to the Moon – Faith McNulty
  • I want to be an Astronaut – Byron Barton

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We worked on shape-sizing and practiced writing colors.

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Nadia did several worksheets and had fun with her Do-A-Dots. Multiple worksheets came from here.

Astronaut Preschool Pack

Practiced spelling and talked about planets in our solar system. I also got a Solar System Pack from Carisa’s site.

Astronaut Preschool Pack

We played the following game from Mama Jenn.

Astronaut Preschool Pack

And we played MANY games of “space tic tac toe”. I made sure this was laminated because Nadia likes to play over and over.

Astronaut Preschool Pack

We also looked at photos of all the planets (used flash cards from the Solar System pack). Janis brought over quite a few posters we had fun with. Nadia liked the phases of the moon and sun poster the best. She exclaimed, “I had no IDEA the sun was on fire!!!” Nadia decided the coolest thing about going to space would be the weightless part and stuff floating around the shuttle. She said, “Just like when Curious George let all the ants go when he went to space.” We also played with Toy Story playdough. Lots of fun planet and star molds came with it. Nadia also made “earth balls”.

Astronaut Preschool Pack

And the post wouldn’t be complete without a photo of Nadia and her favorite Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear. (those are Buzz goggles too)

Color Your Own Playhouse

We bought this awesome thing at CVS on New Year’s Eve. We worked on it serious for about a week, but then then our Travel Approval showed up and we got pretty distracted. Since it’s our second “snow day” in a row I told Nadia that we should finish it today! Click the photo below to see the whole album.

Playhouse 2011

Before.

Playhouse 2011

Starting the decorating.

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Mid way through.

Playhouse 2011

Finished!

Playhouse 2011

Playhouse 2011

What a cute, fun, waiting for Sissy project!