Here’s what you need for Week 1: Cananda + Maple Syrup:
Books (find at your local library or order below on Amazon):
- C is for Canada by Michael Ulmer
- Or try this Explore Canada board book for preschoolers
- At Grandpa’s Sugar Bush by Margaret Carney OR Sugarbush Spring by Marsha Wilson Chall
- A Kid’s Guide to Maple Tapping: Let’s Make Maple Syrup by Julie Fryer
- Carson Crosses Canada by Linda Bailey
Optional chapter book:
Beginning this month, L + L will introduce chapter books into our lessons. These books will take you longer than the week to read together and that is absolutely fine! The idea is to instill the love of reading. So find the right time of day to this with your child. Include younger and older siblings because let’s face it, we all love to cuddle up to a good book. Don’t make this a reading or phonics lesson, make this family time. (Click) Here are a few more tips to introducing chapter book read alouds to your homeschool.
This month we will be reading Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Supplies (use what you have, but here are links to shop if you need anything):
- paper + access to a printer (don’t have one? we like this model)
- laminator + laminator sheets (optional, but recommended for repeating lessons)
- dry erase markers (optional, but useful if you laminate)
- scrap cardboard (you can use a shipping box or cereal box)
- craft knife (optional, but makes cutting your puzzle much easier)
- push pins
- tape
- blue paper plate (or you can paint or color a white one blue)
- crayons
- construction paper
- rubber bands
- baking sheet
- cooking pot
- candy thermometer
- 8.5oz Grade A Pure Maple Syrup (must be pure!)
- ingredients for this playdough recipe
- maple leaf cookie cutter (optional)
- artificial maple syrup (any brand will do, but it must be artificial)
- cooking pot with a large bottom
- brown socks
- felt
- buttons (or use the spare ones that come with shirts!)
- hot glue gun + glue
- acrylic paint (any four colors will do!)
- square canvas
- plastic fork (you can use a metal one, too)
- needle and thread
- ingredients for this recipe, or a store-bought pancake batter
Here’s what you need for Week 2: Snow:
Books (find at your local library or order below on Amazon):
- Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
- The Snowy Day by Ezra Keats
- Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner
Optional extra reading:
- The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter’s Wonders by Jon Nelson, Ph.D
- A Fraction’s Goal ― Parts of a Whole by Brian P. Cleary
Supplies (use what you have, but here are links to shop if you need anything):
- pipe cleaners
- beads
- food coloring
- toothpicks
- mini marshmallows (play dough can work, too!)
- paper + access to a printer (don’t have one? we like this model)
- markers
- dry erase markers (optional, if laminating)
- scissors
- invisible tape
- white paper plates (you can also use cupcake liners or coffee liners!)
- cardstock or construction paper
- ingredients for this sparkly playdough (or you can use white playdough with some glitter mixed in!)
- materials for decorating a mini snowman (this kit has everything you could need, but feel free to use what you have on-hand! Note: If you buy this kit, you don’t need the pipe cleaners from above.)
- dice
- painter’s tape
- foam snowflakes (or your can cut out your own)
- pom poms (not needed if you purchase the kit above)
- ice cubes
- salt
- string
- ingredients for this ice cream recipe
- balloons
- hot glue gun + glue (or you can use duct tape)
- small plastic cup
- styrofoam balls (or you can use cotton balls, rolled up balls of paper, even balled up socks!)
- watercolor paper
- watercolor paints
- masking tape (or you can use the painter’s tape from above!)
- white acrylic paint (or white crayon if you’re doing the modification)
- baking soda
- foaming shaving cream
- white vinegar
- laminator + laminator sheets (optional, but recommended for repeating lessons)