Our Little Monkeys: MFW K

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Alex is 5 years, 4 months
Max is 3 years, 8 months

We are using My Father’s World Kindergarten as our base,
adding in some of my own printables.

This week, we are learning the letter Ff for Frog
Our Bible words are: I will use my tongue wisely.

(For those who know the order of MFW K, we skipped butterfly because our
caterpillars hadn’t yet arrived; we’ll be doing butterfly next.)

We loved all of these books! The first two are just fun to read!
Alex giggled and giggled at the Frog & Toad stories!

These two are more educational, although “Fish is Fish” is a fun, fictional story.
”From Tadpole To Frog” does a great job of teaching the life cycle of a frog.
(Scroll down to the science section if you’d like to see JUST how well it teaches…
but consider yourself warned!)

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lessons/Bible verses on using our tongue to speak good & kind words

I almost always keep this category vague because I don’t want anyone who’s interested to purchase the MFW K manual, not just copy from my blog!

This week’s MFW K reading story.

A very proud little boy finished his first reading book in All About Reading Level 1!
(No, we’re not finished with Level 1. There are 3 readers, and he has completed the first one.)

Alex was introduced to counting by twos.
I didn’t take a picture of the page, but he had to count all the frogs (1 – 20) and then count only the frogs on lily pads (2, 4, 6, 8…20)

He practice the number of the week – 22.

We used resources from my online friend Gwyn (Preschool Printables shop)
to work on the frog life cycle.

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We read a book about the frog life cycle.
Alex learned…a lot.

This is what I found on the kitchen counter later in the day.
He could tell me why, too, in child-friendly terms.
I’m still not sure if that’s good or bad for a 5 year old to understand.
As the Tadpole to Frog book says, “The daddy frog is hugging the mommy frog.”

We found this cute frog idea on Pinterest.
The frog’s tongue is a poem about the life cycle of a frog!

We played the Leaping Lily Pads game, created by Casey from Simple Joy Crafting. It’s a really creative & fun game! With Casey’s permission, I redesigned her trivia/board game combination into a printable file so I could share it with other MFW K users. You can DOWNLOAD IT HERE.

We also did a bunch of papers from my free Frogs In The Pond preschool pack.

We hunted for frogs in this National Geographic Little Kids magazine.

Max is 3 years, 8 months
Jensyn turned 2 on April 4thdec, and she decided we should include her this week.

Just for the record, I *offer* these activities to my little ones. I *NEVER NEVER* force a 3 year old to sit down and do “worksheets”. Max is free to play or do his own thing. I encourage puzzles, hands-on activities, etc…and he can do whatever paperwork interests him.

Jensyn really wanted to participate today, and I just couldn’t tell her no. She really impressed me by matching the shapes on the frogs to the correct spots on the shape mat. Wow!