Sunday, June 07, 2009

The Grouchy Lady Bug

We were into ladybugs recently. Read this cute little story by Eric Carle and decided to work on a Ladybug lapbook for Tim to learn and have fun with.
We read the book...
Printed the elements and Tim was so eager to get started that I allowed him to cut the clock faces out to practice on his handling of the scissors... this time with my close supervision, lest it turned out to be like the previous incident.
My proud little 3-yr-old, showing off his what he has just cut... not bad consider the clocks were round... *smile*
Little Missy just wouldn't sit still without participating in the fun :)
Here are most of the elements of the lapbook which is ready to be executed.
Elements that help Tim learn math, science, language arts, art etc...
Here's Tim working on the very first item - counting bugs. He was to match the number of bugs and paste it onto the page of the accordion booklet with the relevant numbers.
He was having fun playing with the accordion book after all the numbers were matched up.
Here's another counting game. I made this myself. You may download it for your own use.
Ladybug Coutning Simple game, where a numeric number is placed on the mat and Tim is to put the correct quantity of spots onto the ladybug. There are velcro tape attached to each of the spots.
We learned about reading time using the ladybug clock. He still need more practice in reading time so I just let him play with the clock hands.
Matching of upper and lower case letters.
Following instructions, dotting & colouring the ladybugs...

Most of the elements of this lapbook could be obtained from these websites -
The Grouchy Ladybug Lesson Plan
Vicki Blackwell
Homeschool Share
Scholastic Minibooks
Enchanted Learning

3 comments:

Keri said...

cute ladybug activities! i would love a copy of your pdf- my email is
thehometeacherblog@gmail.com
can't wait to read more of your darling ideas!!!

ABC and 123: A Learning Cooperative said...

Hi! I'm from ABC & 123, and I am working on an Eric Carle post scheduled for this week. I'd love to feature this activity in it. Please let me know if this is not permissible. I'd like to highlight the one you made yourself in particular. And would use the picture of your son working on it. I can crop out his face but then your credit watermark would also be cropped out. Let me know if using his picture is okay, we'll direct link to this post and credit you. You can see how we cite other bloggers in our posts. Thanks!

ABC and 123: A Learning Cooperative said...

Hi again, I decided to do a print screen of the download and cropped that for the picture to use with your mention in the post. We don't like to show kid's faces without their parents consent. This will direct people to your blog and post. You have a ton of great activities. Let us know if it would be okay to feature you more and use your pictures of activities. We would always give you credit and direct link to you.