Ways to teach (adding and subtracting): #7

Activity #7: Marker Math

This is a visual to help understand adding and subtracting as well as making it fun! For adding you would do something like 3 markers + 4 markers = ( you hook all the markers together to make a wand and then count them up) Subtracting you have your wand - the # you tell them = (they take off that number and then count them)  

Ways to teach (sight words): #6

 Activity #6: Snowball fight

For this activity I use the flash cards from activity  #5.  If he can read the word then he can crumple it into a "snowball" and it is his if he can't and I can then it is my "snowball."  When all the sight words are read then we have a "snowball fight" and we throw the "snowballs" at each other (or if he gets them all right then he just throws them all at me which has happened).    

                               Crumbling the "snowballs"

                                 being silly

                           all the "snowballs"

                         "SNOWBALL FIGHT"!!!!!!!!!

Ways to teach (sight words): #5

Activity #5: Colorful flash cards

I have a lot of colorful fun markers that he loves and so I let him use them while writing his sight words on paper to to make flash cards!   

Divine Nature Project Part 1

For part of my Divine Nature Project I taught my younger sister some basic sewing skills and then helped her make a purse it turned out very cute (even though it took a couple of tries to make the handles.   

Young Women's Recognition Night

One of the Young Women in my ward got her young women's Medallion and to recognize her in that we had a party or a special night to celebrate her accomplishment.  The theme of it was D.O.T.S which stands for:

Depend

On

The 

Savior 

When you walked in there was a path way DOTS which lead to the gym. 

When you walk in to your right is a table showing some of the things she has done for her projects.

                      To your left is the wall covered with DOTS and a table with the refreshments. 

                                                                         The cake

                                                           Bowls of skittles and M&Ms

                                            All three of them have earned their Medallions 

She did it and you can do it to!  Always remember DOTS:

Depend

On

The 

Savior 

Fruit Sugar Cookie Smash

One summer fun treat my mom and I did this summer was "Fruit Sugar Cookie Smash" It was very simple:

1. Make a huge sugar cookie (you can make your own dough or buy it at the store, then put it on a pan to cook and stick it in the oven)

2. Once the cookie is done you need some kind of frosting (we combined cream cheese, whip cream, and marshmallow cream in our bosh) and spread it over the cookie

3. Finally just put the fruit on in a fun pattern      

school supplies

One of my favorite jobs I have done this summer (not including tutoring) was doing the school supplies.  I love organizing, was needing to earn some money, and was a little bored one day so this was a great thing to do.  First thing I did was go through all the backpacks (we had put everyone's old school supplies in their at the end of the year) and found out what would work for this year and what wouldn't.  Next I went and shopped online at walmart.com and found most of what we needed all of it could be shipped to our house except for one package of high lighters and the next day we went and pick them up along with the other stuff that I didn't buy online.  Then each day when a package comes with  the supplies I will mark it off on my list and put it in the backpack it goes in.       

Book Review: These Golden Happy Years

This was one of the book that I read in the summer.  I loved it so much that even though it is a really thick book I read it in about a week.  I just always had the book in my hands (I think my family was glad when it was done so I would come back in to the world), but it is about Laura Ingalls Wilder teaching school, growing up, and her courtship with Almanzo Wilder.  This is a book I would recommend for girls ages 10 or 11 and up.  I would also recommend the rest of the series I have read a most of the book and really enjoyed them.

Ways to teach (sight words): #4

Activity #4: Spider Web

This is acutely one of the ideas that I did in my sixth grade class that I implemented for a five year old.  Ok, Ok, I know you are thinking why was she doing a spider Web in sixth grade but this was on of our brain brakes that we would do to help us focus more, but what we did was we all got in a circle and we had yarn and through it to a person and said something nice to them take some yarn and warp it arond your finger and throw it to another person and say something nice to them, then some people would stand up and our teacher would then pick a person to go through it and give someone a high five and then at the end we would go backwards and the person that said something nice to us we would say something nice to them.  So I decided I would do something like this for my brother.  So I got his flash cards and taped them around the room (yes, flash cards and tape are my BFFs when it comes to teaching) then he got a ball of yarn and if he could read the word he would tape it by the word and go to a different word ACROSS THE ROOM (this is very important if you want it to look like the spider web, it doesn't have to be completely across the room but you get the idea) read that and then tape it and continue on.  After he had done all of them then he tried to get through and then we went backwards reading them undoing it (I would really recommend going backwards because it can get really tangled if you don't) What great fun.        

Summer!!!!!!!!

Oh, how I love summer and curls! 

Ways to teach (sight words): #3

                           Activity #3: Word Mummy
Before the session of tutoring my brother started I got a roll of toilet paper and taped his sight words in it and then rolled it back up and put it on the rod.  Then when my brother came in and we were ready to start I told him to go get me the toilet paper he was a little confused (as a five year old should be) but went and got it.  Then I told him to unroll it and ha then saw what we were going to do.  He read all the sight words and then covered ME in the toilet paper like a mummy.  At least he learned.        

Ways to teach (sight words):#2

Activity #2: Squirted Words

For this activity I wrote my brother's sights words on the drive way and if  he could read the word then he could  squirt it with his water gun.    

Ways to teach (sight words): #1

 For money this summer I decided that I would tutor my five year old brother (with the permission of my parents)  One thing that I think school could do a better job of is making learning a little more fun.  So what I decided is that when I taught my little brother I wouldn't just make him read his sight words 5 times and then be done for the day.  I would do activities.
                                                           
                                     Activity #1: Sight Word Twister
I was thinking how I could teach my little brother his sight words making it fun and so I went and looked on pintrest and was scrolling down and saw twister and I thought I could make this game into teach sight words. I copied his sight words into flash cards and then taped one word to each color.  I would spin the wheel and have him put the hand or foot on the word that I said.  Something that I found as I was teaching him was that he liked me to do the same thing I was making him do so we would take turns spinning and when he spun he would have his flash cards and show me and tell me the word he wanted me to go on.   It worked great!   

Another thing we did was we had him match his flash cards to the words on the mat and then have him read them.