Monday, October 29, 2012

Fall theme learning

 C cut out shapes (he loves to cut, and even funnier, he loves to have a paper brown bag next to him to throw all his little scraps in, that's part of his fun).  Then he used his glue stick and glued the shapes onto it's respective matching shape on another paper.  The shapes had scarecrows in them to make it fun for fall!



Then we had a print out of a pumpkin.  I had printed off "letter tiles", laminated them and cut them (oh the work to save money!).  First I had him use all upper case letters to spell pumpkin, then all lower case letters.  We talked about the "P" sound and what spelling means.



Fun fall pattern cards!  Again, I printed them off a website, laminated and cut them.  I began a pattern and had him finish it.... pumpkin, leaf, scarecrow, pumpkin, leaf, scarecrow, pumpkin... This actually took a bit more teaching on my part to encourage him to think about what was going on here... but as soon as he got the hang of it, he did awesome!!



This is a fall numbers wheel.  Again, a printable I found, laminated and cut!  Then I wrote numbers on clothespins and had him count the pictures (pumpkins, squirels, apples, leaves, scarecrows...) and he had to find the correct number on the clothespin and clip it to the picture!  He did this fast, and liked it!  The other day he found this own his own and did it without me even asking.


These four papers are fall songs that I found and printed off.  We sang them and threw fake silk leaves around the house!  Example: Autumn leaves are falling down, falling down, falling down, autumn leaves are falling down, red, yellow, green and brown!  To the tune of London Bridge is falling down.  My little tot N really liked this one too!





Sunday, October 28, 2012

Letter I

Here are some things we did with the letter "I".  

This is the board in our room.  I change it weekly.  We have letters, numbers, sight words, Bible verse and positive affirmations.

Here is C doing a "letter hunt": recognizing and circling the letter "i" within a sentence.



Here he cut out pictures of iguanas and he glued them onto the letter I.  Cutting and gluing is fun busy work, and good fine motor skills.  Then he drew his very first picture of a person!!


He colored this picture, and I had to help cut out this one (the tiny, curvy legs and arms) then he glued it onto the paper and we talked about our Bible verse of the week: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" (Phil 4:13)


Tracing shapes!  With an iguana on the paper (I is for iguana)!


I love these dot-a-dot markers and free printables I found online!  I is for ice cream!


Most of these printables are found on:
www.1+1+1=1.com
www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com

Numbers fun!

Here are some fun ways to practice numbers with your tots and preschoolers:

Counting Bears!  A toy I bought on Amazon.  I put a number in front of each bucket and had him put the correct number of bears in each bucket.



And putting the correct number of cheerios on foam numbers



Have fun!