With that said, here's unit 9 from BEFORE Christmas!
Our story for this unit was Moses and the 10 plagues of Egypt. This was originally going to be just one lesson in unit 8, but it's such a big story, that I decided it needed to be it's own unit. I'm glad we did it over the course of the week because we had so much fun stretching the story and activities out. First we acted out the story using printable from 1+1+1=1. Mackenzie was the Pharoah, hence her mean face when saying "no!"
Throughout the week we made puppets for each plague...(1)water turned to blood, (2) frogs, (3) lice, (4) flies, (5) death of livestock, (6) boils, (7) hail, (8) locusts, (9) darkness, (10) death of first born.
After the puppets were all finished, we reenacted the story again. This time, Meredith was Moses! ;)
Our letter this week was "P". As in plagues...and also pigs and penguins from Carissa's Animal ABC's.
We are still going through our alphabet book and when I turned to the P pages Mackenzie said, "I don't feel like coloring the pineapple."
Mackenzie also worked on her handwriting for the letter P.
I decided to adopt a more formal curriculum to teach sight words for Mackenzie. Rather than just picking my own, I opted to use Carissa's You Can Read curriculum. (clearly I love 1+1+1=1) There are so many great activities to learn each unit's sight words. Each unit has four words and we are going to spend two weeks on each unit. Unit one's words were "a", "the", "see", "and". She learned all of these words last year, so it was a little bit of a review, but the printables also focus on writing and spelling the words.
Like I said earlier, we will spread these units over 2 weeks, so I'll have the wrap up for these words in unit 10's post. Whenever that actually happens! Ha! ;)
Since Christmas was approaching when we completed this unit, we also worked on a reindeer theme pack of printables. The packs came from 3Dinosaurs and Royal Baloo. The packs are full of "what is different", counting sheets, finding the patterns, size sorting and so much more that we just couldn't fit into our week!
I thought it was funny that she glued the reindeer laying down! I tried to move the first one and she got upset with me, so I left it at that. I guess they were all resting before the big night! ;)
And last, but not least, the little miscellaneous things we did.
Unit 9 down! For Unit 10 we are still talking about Moses! As I told Mackenzie, he was an important character and great man of God, so we should spend a little longer on his story. ;)