Level 1 Book reading

It was so glad to hear R read his first book with little help. He read the book "Hot Dog" by Molly Coxe. He first read it with me and then re read it to Dad. I am so proud of him. His phonics had excelled and is showing more and more interest in reading by himself.
I hope he continues on his reading skills.

December Sensory bin and playdough

I made this sensory bin with colored green rice, colored pom poms, bells brought from Dollar Store. I gave the tray to R to sort the pompoms by color but insted he enjoyed filling it with rice.
   
It was great fun with the playdough and christmas themed cookie cutters.

Rudolph and others

We read the book "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer" and we did this craft with R's footprint and handprint. We made red nose from pom pom and his mouth from a pipe cleaner.

I got the game of stamping lowercase letters at Pre-K pages. Instead of using colored chips I asked R to stamp using Do a dot markers.

We also played this game from Activity Village.

Candy Cane

We made a very simple candy cane craft and then we did the candy cane matching game which is good for visual discrimination skills. The craft is very simple made by cutting red candy cane and then pasting white stripes.

Gingerbread Theme

We read "Gingerbread Man" by Eric A. Kimmel and "Gingerbread Baby" by Jan Brett.

Gingerbread Man Dough - I mixed the equal quantities of cinnamon powder and applesauce, in fact  abit more of cinnamon and we made a dough. R cut several gingerbread man and baby from the different sizes of cookie cutters. We decorated them with buttons, googly eyes, sequins and bows and icing shapes cut from foam. it was lot of fun.

 

Gingerbread Pattern - I had some gingerbread man and other pattern stickers from Dollar Store. SO we used the stickers to make the patterns. So proud of R for this. He just did all by himself !!

Size Sequencing - I got the print from HomeSchool Creations.

Gingerbread Book - I got the print from online and we had fun making this book where R had to cut one leg, then the other leg, one arm and so on !!

Gingerbread Roll n Stamp - I got the idea from Pre-K pages. I made the game board on a piece of paer by drawing the outline of the gingerbread man and wrote the numbers 1-6 in randome order inside. We had fun playing this game.

Gingerbread puzzle- This is again from HomeSchool Creations.

There was a old lady who wasn't afraid of anything !

We read the book" There was an old lady who wasn't afreaid of anything" by Linda Williams. We enjoyed the story and I made some props from felt and we retold the story. It was great fun !!

Letter of the week-Letter L

First we cut out the L picture cards from 1+1+1=1. They are really nice and R cut them and then pasted on to a construction paper.

We also made this ladybug craft. I had cut the head and the body from the black construction paper. R painted a paper plate red with his roller brush and then we made a cut in the paper plate to look like wings. We pasted the wings on top of the body and then pasted the black dots. We added antennas to complete the craft.


I wrote uppercase and lowercase L with a black marker which R poked with a pushpin.

R sorted the ladybugs in the order of the size. I got the print from the Confessions of a homeschooler.

R did the ladybug pattern on a blank white paper, the pattern is from Confessions of a homeschooler.

I used the ladybug pieces from the pattern prints above to practice on the ABAB, AAB and ABB pattern.

We did some dot to dot, coloring of ladybugs, and writing L practice.

We did the puzzle from the Confessions of a homeschooler.

From our Math and counting practice, I gave R some dots and then asked me to paste the number of dots written on the ladybugs' bodies. I got the idea from http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/

We also did the ladybug lacing which R enjoyed a lot. I got the print from again, Confessions of a homeschooler.

We also did L letter scavenger hunt search and foam letter builders. We lad lion, lime, lamb, leaf, ladybug and lollipop.
 

Letter L hunt -

We also made the candle craft from 1+1+1=1 printables for Letter L. It was very simple but I wanted to check if R can do it all by himself.

The Books that we read are "The Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle and "Is Your mama a Llama?" by Steven Kellogg . The Gorouchy Ladybug was a cute book to teach kids clock reading. We had fun with the clock that R had made earlier ans as I read the story he would adjust the clock accordingly.

At word family sort

We sorted the picture cards and words. I got the print from Teach Mama.

Pinkalicious

If you look at the cover of the book, it looks like a princess book which I thought whether R will like it or not. But it is actually a book about a girl who eats lots of pancakes and then turns pink. It is really good book to teach kids about eating right. i discussed good eating habits with R through this book. He really enjoyed it a lot and asked to read it several times.

Wedgits and Pattern blocks

Wedgits are such good toys and R is really enjoying playing with them. It is so good to see him building different structures with these blocks.

We are also working on the pattern making with the pattern blocks. There are lots of pattern cards on www. prekinders.com and also avialable online to purchase from Amazon.

Thanksgiving themed art and activities

Art
1. Turkey - We made this turkey from a pinecone. We used the pinecone as the body and I had vut the head, beak, wattle and feet from the construction paper. Then we added feathers

2. Corn - I had cut the corn and the husk from the construction paper and R made kernels by finger painting them.

3. Cornucopia - Aren't these so nice? R made this from ripped tiisue papers for all his teachers at school. I got the cornucopia print frrom Lakeshore's teachers corner page.

Activities


1. Turkey clothespin - This is a good fine motor skill practice game. I got the idea and print from Pre-K pages.
Basically, you write the lowercase letters on the clothespin and then you have to pin the lowercase letters to the uppercase letters on the board.

2. Letter sound match - The idea actually came from Pre-K pages,  but I used the letter cards which I had printed before the prekinders.com. I had the prints of the turkey and I sticked letter stickers on them and I gave the picture cards to R to match the beginning sound to the letters on the turkey. It was fun.

3. Graph - I got this graph from www.heidisongs.com . It was a good sheet to explain more and less concepts to R.

The Little Red Hen

We read the story " The Little Red Hen " by Paul Galdone.

 It was a nice recap of the toddler version which we have read before. Then I asked R to sequence the story props which I got from kizclub.com. It was quite challenging for him with so many pictures but he did pretty good with little help from me.

What's missing?

I got the inspiration from this post on The Activity Mom blog.  You need some pictures ffrom your old magazines and cut some part of it to make it a Whats Missing game for your preschoolers. R really enjoye dthe game and we also did this game with the pictures which I drew in his easel.

Halloween activities

Besides the craft that we did, we also manage to get some other activities done.

1. R tonged the plastic spiders into a tray

2. I made some printable emergent reader books from makinglearningfun.com . R loves doing such small books.
This one is on spiders and the positional words like spider is above the bat. I gave R the spider stickers to use with.

The other one requires very minimal drawing like legs, head and eyes for the spiders. R enjoyed both the books.

3. The counting matching worksheet which I got from here

4. Phonics Worksheet- In this R matched the picture with the word that they begin with. I got the sheet from here.

5. Spider and Ghost dot to dot.



6. Itsy Bitsy Spider song and props - I printed the props from kizclub.