Alli's Home Journal: School Journal - We're Going on a Bear Hunt

After a couple days of rowing We're Going on a Bear Hunt with Before Five in a Row, Betty said, "Mommy, you pick fun stories for us to read!" It was a fun one. All the kids stopped what they were doing to listen to this one.

We also did some activities with the letter Q is for quilt using Confessions of a Homeschooler letter of the week and some other activities we picked up.

I made a Bear Hunt Sensory Tub like the one at Delightful Learning (link below).

I used pipe cleaners secured on cardboard for grass, water with blue coloring in a plastic bag (sealed with clear packing tape) for a river, brown playdough in a baggie for mud, sprigs of cedar trees for a forest, unraveled cotton balls with snowflake punches for a snowstorm and a toilet paper tube painted brown for a cave complete with a bear figure.

I had Betty do a little collage for some of the things the Bear Hunt family encountered. The green one is for grass. The leaf collage is for the forest using leaf die cuts and punches from scarpbooking. She did a blue one with tissue paper and bubble wrap painting for water. I thought of doing brown paint splashes and sand for mud and gluing cotton balls and snowflakes and white paint for a snowstorm, but we didn't get to that.

She enjoyed a reading of the book by the author on You Tube. Her brothers helped her make a cave from the table and blankets in the playroom and we hid bear cookies for her to hunt, but she didn't want to eat the chocolate pudding mud I made to go with it. We also did lapbook activities from Homeschool Share (link below).

We made a queen out of Q like the one at http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/category/letter-q.
Here are some other activities I caught this week.