Posted in Pre-School

Last week I started the preparatory program for the Letter of the Week Curriculum by Brightly Beaming Resources with L who's 3. She has been showing a real interest in the alphabets and is able to count from 1-10 so I thought maybe she is ready for a little preschool program to get her started plus she pretends to do school with us every morning : )

We had some bulletin board border in a sparkly fish pattern full of bright colours so L decided that she would like to have it as her border around her weekly poster. So our first project was getting her poster board decorated up all pretty like : ) Then we had to clear a section of the wall so that she could have her own school space where we could hang her poster. It was very clear that K took up way to much of the schoolroom wall and she needed to claim some of it as her own!! So after we had rearranged some things she had her spot and was very happy : )

Each day we have added a new paper to our poster. This week we covered cows which we have been reading a cow storybook each day, the letter A, the number 1, squares, a new vocabulary word which was calf, and the hey diddle diddle nursery rhyme. Every morning as I hang a new picture on her chart she gets one that she gets to colour as well and she loves it. We have all of her coloured sheets hanging underneath the main poster so she can display her colouring expertise : )

The great thing is that now at the end of the week she remembers all of the parts of the chart!! and when we look at other things in different areas of the house or outside she is still able to identify them as one of the things that she learned this week which is great because she is definitely not just memorizing what she sees on the chart but actually remembering it.

Here is a picture of her weekly chart. I have just coloured her cow and calf pictures so far because she will be learning one new colour each week which I believe you add to your shape and I didn't want to confuse her with to many different colours all over the chart. I have stuck them to the poster board with that tacky putty that you can stick to paper or painted walls and then remove it easily and use it over and over again. That way we won't wreck our master poster : )

I just wanted to share a couple of links that I used that weren't part of the Brightly Beaming site. The cow poster I picked from a different site because it had the word COW written underneath of it and I thought it wouldn't hurt for her to recognize the word that goes with the picture. And the other link I came across was when I found copy of the Hey Diddle Diddle poem and picture. You can listen to the sound of a fiddle. I thought that was really cool. Now L know what a fiddle sounds like : )

Blessings,

BChsMamaof3