School with Letter B

  Another successful week completed. Another letter set to memory with learning and fun along the way.  Repetition is key and incorporating it in a variety of ways solidifies the word.  After this week he not only points out the letters he sees he will tell me the b words he learned. This is a ball and it starts with a letter b.

  B kept us busy everyday from bike rides to baseball!  We were not in a shortage of ideas to go outside.

  We did 2 miles on the bike this day.  It was not easy and he wanted to turn back which essentially at that point still would have been 2 miles.  Baseball is a work in progress.  He is a lefty so we got the bat accurate but my throw is not always precise.  He does pretty good though and we need to work desperately on throws and catches.

  He had structured computer time for the alphabet song (somehow he skip's letter j everytime), some letter games and to aid in phonics.

  We pulled out beans and did several different things with them.  He needed to find the letters A-Z in the alphabet soup.  Using a pair of tongs he pulled them out and placed them appropriately.

I am not quite concerned with him pulling them out in order or knowing them.  He doesn't know all of them but this is a good way of getting familiar with them. 

We used the same sheet to match bottle tops with the letter.

He can match the letters together.

Here I called out the object on the sheet and he spelled out the words by finding what letter the object was. Such as r was for ring.

We read some great books just like last week.  One book for although it centered around the winter season we used it to our current advantage!

Boot Weather was about a little girl who out her winter boots on and did more then what the naked eye could see. She was climbing mountains and going through tunnels with her boots and yet still close to home.

He put his boots on and checked out the depth of puddles!

Of course writing is a daily thing.  To make it not seem like work we change up from paper, to the chalkboard or whiteboard.  He writes but his favorite thing is to erase.

 A little indoor fun included bowling and block building.  This intentional play is another thing he likes to do.   Normally he may play with his sisters but, I know he really enjoys when I sit down and directly play with him.

  My craft for the week was trying my hand at making a bean bag.  Now I'm not a professional so and because I couldn't find a needle and thread and I'm not a professional I used stitch witch.

Surprisingly it held up at least that day so I'm happy with that.  I made two and they were played with for a good couple hours.

I had to fit a little food art in the week somewhere.  So my food fun was with lunch.  One day his sandwich became the letter B!

Cheers, to another good week and bring on a new week of adventure, fun and learning! 

Letter G preschool

G is for gorilla, grapes, goose and Grover.  Those are some of the items on the desk the first day of letter G.

Each week I try to take full advantage of the letter.  Worksheets help with visual skills, hand writing, pre-reading, scissor practice.  Props including games, crafts and other activities help reinforce the learning.  Hands on learning completes the circle of learning.

For this worksheet you listen to the statement and circle the appropriate letter. G is for gumballs!

This worksheet can be used in multiple ways.  Playdough was the chosen resource today but, you can use the dot markers, cereal, candy or pompoms.

I pulled out the letter G stamp to stamp on the goat this week.  He has not seen the letter stamps before now but liked them.

G is for garage.  Of course he didn't make this but, we sat on the floor playing with Legos together.  When I presented him with this we discussed what it was (he called it a shed) and I showed him what to do with it.

Q-tip painting the upper and lowercase G.  I encourage him to slow down and make precise paint dots in the circles.  

Coloring skills are funny to watch.  On color by numbers he just wants to initially color just the number.  No, little man keep coloring. This sheet only needed 4 colors to make the picture when you print in color the directions are in the color you need.  So he can "read" 1 is blue.

Lastly g is for golf.  We got outside got moving and some fresh air.

That concluded our letter G for the week.  Each week I can see his retaining a little bit more and its heartwarming to know I have done that!

Duck Family Craft

  In sticking with the theme of letter D and the love of moving hands, role play and puppets I gathered some supplies to make something with the kids that would keep them amused beyond just making the craft.

  For this craft grab as many pom poms as you want puppets.  You need two per puppet though.  I used two different sizes as well.  Popsicle sticks, orange construction paper, goggley eyes, and some glue.

  Glue the smaller pom pom onto the larger one.  Allow for dry time.  Glue the eyes onto top pompom.  Cut orange paper into a small square and fold it point to point to make a triangle and glue it on.  I now introduce you to a duck!

  After allowing for more time for the glue to dry add glue to the popsicle stick and stick the duck  to the stick.

  When the glue dries you have a duck puppet!  Perfect for a imagination play

or with a few more ducks you have yourself a perfect prop for a book!

My kids had fun making these.  Easy pieces for little hands to work with.  I used regular white glue and had to be patient with sticking the pieces together but when it did dry everything stayed.