Sunday, August 12, 2012

TOS CREW REVIEW ~ Math Made Easy...Addition

                                               
I was given the opportunity to review the Home School Package of Math Made Easy: Addition. Ideally this is for 1st and 2nd grade...however, I used it with Ryleigh who is doing Kindergarten. The idea behind this is that the children learn their addition facts without using their fingers...in 6 weeks.... There are only 36 facts that they need to learn.

 
Home School Packages: $24.95/ea
  
 Home School Addition Package:
  Lesson Plans
PreTest
Six Weeks of Daily Activity Sheets 
          
  Post Test
Games
Flash Cards


This nifty book comes in black and white so it is super easy to make copies (for home use only!). At first glance this book looked a little dull...HOWEVER, I could not have been more wrong.... The lessons are short and to the point...There are games to re-enforce the facts learned....and by having the student learn 6 facts a week...it is completely doable! The reason that there are only 36 facts to learn, is that the 0s and 1s are eliminated...as are the duplicates...leaving 36 to learn.

This is a very straight forward...and EASY approach to learning your addition facts.... Ryleigh took to this right away and loved all the activities that were included... this would make a great addition (hahaha) to your homeschool math library!!!! I was very impressed with her progress in such a short time.

Math Made Easy also makes a Multiplication book...To see what other crew members have to say about Math Made Easy check out the School House Review Crew  Blog!!!

Disclaimer: I was given this product for free for my honest review...all opinions are my own!

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Tie Dye and Sand Art ~ Messy Summer Fun Week 3 2012

During the Summer I hold Messy Summer Fun Classes/Workshops/Camp-days...on Mondays. Each session includes a sensory tub, messy craft, ice sculpture to melt, messy gross motor activity and snack....This week for our Tie Dye and Sand Art Messy Fun, I had 22 Children... however, everyone worked together and things stayed pretty organized...and everyone got to make both projects. 

Some of the kids in their finished shirts...
This week's ice sculpture had dice erasers inside...
 With so many kids this week... the 3 sculptures were melted quickly...
 Playing with the water sensory bin....sea life themed...
 Shaving Cream Balloons...
 Relay/obstacle course/ free for all.... shaving cream balloons, hippity hop, hula hoop...lots of mess!
 Hippity hops are fun...but running is faster and means twice as many balloons...
 It actually stayed pretty organized...
 Sand Art.... half of the kids did Sand Art while the other half did their tie dye shirts... 
then they switched... a very organized chaos....
 The kids had 12 colors to choose from....and chopsticks to make fun designs...
Some of the finished bottles...
 Meanwhile at the Tie Dye table..... 
 Ryleigh working on her shirt...
 Ryleigh went with a giant swirl method....
 3 of the finished shirts.... 

We finished off the day with homemade snowcones for snack.... yummy on a hot day!!!


For more fun projects check out ABC and 123... . and Preschool Corner at Homeschool Creations;