A magical underwater sea creature that is not only beautiful but with the voice of an angel. Do you know what it is? If you guessed Manatee you would be right. I had no idea that the myth of these creatures all started with men at sea spotting manatees sunbathing on rocks.
I mean we all have our taste in partners but it was an oh boy moment for sure when I heard that on the video about the myth of mermaids that I watched with the children.
We did a few videos and activities including felt board songs for this week. Have I mentioned my love for making felt board activities for the kids? No that wasn't said in a sarcastic tone, I do!
How our days went with the mermaid unit.
8 am breakfast, get dressed, hair put their dirty laundry downstairs.
9 am either workbooks or worksheets. I alternate each day so the kids don't get bored with doing the same thing every day.
15-minute break. On this 15 min break, I get everything ready for the next activity, put laundry in, hand wash the dishes that need to be washed.
930am Journals and a letter book. (This is the last week for letter books and we will be moving onto letter sheets. These are good for H to learn her letters and the rest to practice the letter sounds)
15-minute break outside. I empty the dishwasher and answer clients.
10:30 am Snack
10:45 am Mermaid activity or video I fold and put away laundry while they are watching a video.
11:00 am They have free time to do whatever they would like (this amount of time depends on how long things took us.)
In this "free time" I work on client orders and make lunch
12:00 pm LUNCH
12:30 pm reading. They each get to read their book with me and do the sight word cards as well as the sight word board. (The books and the sight word changes every three days)
1:00 pm "Online learning" They each get a turn using the learning app on my phone called Khan Kids. They each have a profile and play what I consider one round. One round is playing until they get a prize.
1:30 PM They have until snack to free play. I sweep, clean up and work on client orders.
2:00 pm snack. I start dinner at this point.
15minutes outside.
Then they have until dinner to free play.
4:30 pm Dinner
5:30 pm walk dogs
This week we are slowly transiting them to a slightly later bedtime (about 30 minutes) to help when the time charge starts.
6:30 pm start baths. When I start baths I get out the painting I have been working on and work on it while each child gets to play in the tub for 10mins.
7:15 pm snack, stories, teeth and bed.
At about 8:45 pm everyone is asleep, which means I get to work on client orders, cleaning, folding laundry and getting everything ready for the next day's schooling.
Here are links to the videos and activities that we did.
Build a mermaid
Mermaid colouring sheets
Mermaid felt board designs
Songs used for the Mermaid felt board:
I changed the words to be Mermaid instead of Fish
I changed the animals in the song to match the ones I cut out
Videos:
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
Do you feed your child's curiosity?
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