Nov. 9, 2009 - Preschool Activities Our Letter P page

We finished up our letter P page last week so I just wanted to post a picture of it. 

Front side

Back Side

This week and next we are working on the letter T.  I have again downloaded activities from http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/  I chose to do the letter T so we could incorporate our Thankful Tree, Thanksgiving and Turkeys.  You can see our activites when I post about our workboxes this week.  We will then be taking some time off to welcome our new baby home!

Oct. 29, 2009 - Preschool Letter of the Week.....P

We skipped up to the letter P this week so we could tie it in with our pumpkin activities and I found some really cool activities. 

Here are the activites that the girls are working on this week and are in their workboxes:

These first activites are ones I downloaded, printed and laminated they are all from http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com.  Erica graciously shares all her creations on her blog.

Lacing uppercase and lower case P

Using sticker dots on the letter P.  Theyloved this!

Graphing pumpkins.  These pages are laminatedso they color in one box for every pumpkin on the page.  It goes to 10

Sorting small, medium, large, pumpkins

Spelling/matching letters,  Go to this site to see how to make the letters.  I have been saving milk caps but you can also get disks to use from a craft store. 

Color matching

Ok now this one I made myself before I realized that Erica had already done the letter P and had all that other stuff available.  I made the numbers 1-10 on pumpkins and cut out as cards and the girls have clothes pins or you could use paper clips and put the correct number on each card.  If anyone wants a copy let me know and I will gladly email you a copy. 

We always do one of these letter pages for our book.  This week they are coloring it and glueing on popcorn seeds and pumpkin seeds.

This is Alexa's color plate, doing the color orange this week.

They each get their cubbie books in one of their boxes

The picture is bad but this is a book I made for each of the kids.  On the first page they draw and color a picture of their pumpkin.  The second page is where they record their measurments of their pumpkin.  The third page they glue on some pumpkin seeds to make a pumpkin picture and on the last page is a fill in the blank for a pumpkin poem.  They have to fill in adjectives describing pumpkins.  Their poems turned out really cute!

So that is our letter of the week activities.  We will do the letter E next week.

Sep. 8, 2009 - Preschool Activities

We finished our D page last week and this week has been a review of the letters learned so far.  We will start back with the letter E after our trip.  I have spent quite a bit of time reading other blogs this week.  There are so many great ideas for letters of the week and workboxes.  I have a wish list started for when we get back.

Lot's of great activities to make.  They are actually already made I just have to download and laminate.  So more laminating film is on my list. 

Then I would like to get magnetic pom poms or magnets found here.

The next really cool item is a hot dot pen.  What I like about this is that you can buy the hot dots and make your own activities.  You don't have to just buy pre made ones.  It is found here.

I am also working on making a "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" tree to put all our letters on.  I will get a picture posted when we get back in town.  It is really cute if I do say so myself.

The blogs for my inspirations have been these ones: Confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com

Home Grown Hearts

These have been my main two jumping off points this week.  They are filled with great resources and ideas.

Aug. 23, 2009 - Letter of the Week...C

This week the girls focused on the letter C.  I have to say this is new for me the fact that they aren't catching on right away to their letters or sounds.  Anastasia or Joshua caught on so quickly.  For Joshua I give credit to Fridge Phonics by Leap Frog.  I finally got it back out since we moved.  I left it packed away in exchange for a clean fridge but no more!    It really works and the girls love to play with it and are already singing the sounds.  I have only put up the A, B, C and we will add a letter each week.

They colored and cut their big and little C's.  Made a C book and the C in the lower left corner is covered in cornmeal.  (My flash doesn't like the white paper)

Backside

Aug. 14, 2009 - Preschool Activities

This week we finished up our "B" page for the girls ABC book

Here are some pictures of Alexa's color plates.  She gets one plate in a workbox each day with a colored piece of paper and a magazine.  She has to look through the magazine and find things with that color.  When we finish a few more I am going to hole punch and bind them like a book using yarn.