PreK week in review: Letter of the Week ~ B and a valuable lesson learned

Posted on 19/01/2014 by Momma Jo

We are back!!! Our summer holiday was awesome, but we are glad to be back in full swing this term.

I learned a very valuable lesson this week. I am so stuck on sticking to my planning for this school year, that I’ve completely ignored the fact that Fifi is bored with the amount of work she has to do every day. I’ve realised that she can do all the work for each letter in 3 days.

This week Fifi worked on the Letter B, for butterfly. Because we started school the same day as the public school system, we only had a 3 day week, so it worked our perfectly for us. She really loved the butterflies this week. She’s a real little girl ♥

Here are a few photos of what she did this week. The links to the resources are listed at the bottom of the post.

Our Letter B wall
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Colouring in her B for Bat letter
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Size sequencing
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B Book
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Large floor number bean bag toss. She wanted to set it up herself this week. Pixie loved watching Fifi toss the bean bag, but wasn’t interested in doing it herself.
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Letter B puzzle
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Matching the number of butterflies to the number on the butterfly card.
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Letter B scavenger hunt (Baby doll, Barbie, block[lego], block [foam], bear, banana, blue shape, baby bottle) photo IMG_7697_zps2d3857dc.jpg

Beginning Sound Bb worksheet
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Butterfly lacing card
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Matching the number of butterflies to the number
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Sorting capital and lowercase Bb’s
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Writing the letter B and b
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Our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree
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Butterfly egg in a hole for lunch
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Resources:
The letter of the week – Pocket chart – Bundle (our letter wall printables)
Letter of the Week Curriculum (full download $$$)
Letter of the Week Curriuclum ~ Letter B (individual file downloads ~ free)
Additional Letter of the Week Curriculum activities (free individual file downloads)
Animal ABC’s from 1+1+1=1
Raising Rock Star Preschool from 1+1+1=1
Alphabet Printables from 1+1+1=1
B is for Bat colouring page
B Book cut and paste page
Follow the Letter B Path
Things that Start with B!
Beginning Sounds Coloring: Sounds Like Bear
Words That Start With B
B Is For…

Previous for the Letter of the Week Curriculum:
Letter A
Letter E
Letter I
Letter O
Letter U

“The Letter of the Week is a full 26 week preschool course designed to give your student a head-start on preparing for kindergarten! It is a 26 week curriculum that’s full of educational activities that focus on the letter recognition, sounds, number recognition, counting, basic math skills, pre-writing practice, and all the necessary fine-motor skills that will be required for your preschooler to be ready for kindergarten! Included are weekly lesson plans that cover all the subjects a preschooler needs and more!“

PreK week in review: Letter of the Week ~ U

Posted on 22/12/2013 by Momma Jo

Fifi still loves her weekly Letter of the Week lessons and I have found that I have had to add activities from other sources because she works so quickly and then asks for more. For this I am grateful, even though it has doubled my preparation time for her. For some inexplicable reason, I didn’t take many photos this week.

Our letter wall
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Letter U with Unifix blocks
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Letter U for Umbrella puzzle
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Do-a-Dot paint letter U. I have yet to find the do-a-dot paints in South Africa (and importing them is an extremely costly exercise), but I did come across Bingo markers a few years ago that do the trick.
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Umbrella sequencing
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Umbrella shape puzzles
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Umbrella graphing. She ticks the applicable number of boxes
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I printed off a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree (link below in the resources) for her to mark off which letters we have done.
This goes in the front of her file. We use lowercase letter stickers.
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The Letter U collage. She used her umbrella cut and paste sheet to decorate it.
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Resources:
The letter of the week – Pocket chart – Bundle (our letter wall printables)
Letter of the Week Curriculum (full download $$$)
Letter of the Week Curriuclum ~ Letter U (individual file downloads ~ free)
Additional Letter of the Week Curriculum activities (free individual file downloads)
Animal ABC’s from 1+1+1=1
Raising Rock Star Preschool from 1+1+1=1
Alphabet Printables from 1+1+1=1
Letter U worksheets from Education.com
Things that Start with U!
Beginning Sounds Coloring: Sounds Like Umpire
U Book
U is for Up! Practice Writing the Letter U
Practice Tracing the Letter U
Writing the Letter u
Get Ready for Reading: All About the Letter U
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree printable from Pre-K pages

Previous for the Letter of the Week Curriculum:
Letter A
Letter E
Letter I
Letter O

“The Letter of the Week is a full 26 week preschool course designed to give your student a head-start on preparing for kindergarten! It is a 26 week curriculum that’s full of educational activities that focus on the letter recognition, sounds, number recognition, counting, basic math skills, pre-writing practice, and all the necessary fine-motor skills that will be required for your preschooler to be ready for kindergarten! Included are weekly lesson plans that cover all the subjects a preschooler needs and more!“

PreK week in review: Letter of the Week ~ O

Posted on 15/12/2013 by Momma Jo

We had another successful week here at Monsters Ed Homeschool Academy. Fifi is loving her Letter of the Week activities and asks for more and I’ve had to add more activities from other sources (resources for the additional activities are at the bottom of this post). Here are a few pictures of what she did this week.

Our letter wall
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Previous for the Letter of the Week Curriculum:
Letter A
Letter E
Letter I

“The Letter of the Week is a full 26 week preschool course designed to give your student a head-start on preparing for kindergarten! It is a 26 week curriculum that’s full of educational activities that focus on the letter recognition, sounds, number recognition, counting, basic math skills, pre-writing practice, and all the necessary fine-motor skills that will be required for your preschooler to be ready for kindergarten! Included are weekly lesson plans that cover all the subjects a preschooler needs and more!“

PreK week in review: Letter of the Week ~ I

Posted on 08/12/2013 by Momma Jo

Another fun filled week here 🙂 Fifi is still loving the Letter of the Week curriculum 🙂 Its served our family well over the years. Here are a few pics of what she got up to this week.

Using unifix blocks to make her Ii’s
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I is for Inchworm puzzle
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Inchworm patterning
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Inchworm colour matching
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Building an inchworm pyramid
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Number matching (the leaves have dots that correspond to numbers on the inchworms)
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Do-a-dot paint I. This is one of her favourite activities
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This is the magnetic Inchworm sheet, we use the unifix blocks again here. They are a fantastic resource.
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This is the I poke page. I have a rectangular piece of styrofoam that she uses to protect the table. Its the perfect size. She uses a toothpick here.
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Inchworm lacing, another favourite
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Her I collage. She used her cut and paste activity to decorate her file devider. She loves it ♥
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Inchworm sequencing
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Floor number beanbag toss. She loves this activity. We tried doing it outside since the weather was perfect, but the wind didn’t play along.
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Inchworm bottle top letter match. Pixie loved watching Fifi work this week. She spent a lot of her time getting her head inbetween Fifi and the sheet she was busy with, LOL. Fifi was very patient with her, telling me, “She’s learning with me, Momma!”
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Previous for the Letter of the Week Curriculum:
Letter A
Letter E

“The Letter of the Week is a full 26 week preschool course designed to give your student a head-start on preparing for kindergarten! It is a 26 week curriculum that’s full of educational activities that focus on the letter recognition, sounds, number recognition, counting, basic math skills, pre-writing practice, and all the necessary fine-motor skills that will be required for your preschooler to be ready for kindergarten! Included are weekly lesson plans that cover all the subjects a preschooler needs and more!“

PreK week in review: Letter of the Week ~ E

Posted on 03/11/2013 by Momma Jo

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I just love all the work Fifi is doing with the LOTW curriculum. She begs to “do school” even when we are done for the day. She is so eager to learn and the fun activities don’t hurt either! Here is what she worked on this week.

This week’s letter E wall. The letters on the sticks were made by the kidlets last year
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She coloured a Lalaloopsy cover for her PreK file
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Gluing activities from the LOTW curriculum and our Kumon More Lets Sticker and Paste
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Making the letter E shape with unifix blocks
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Colour sorting
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Patterning
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Letter E puzzle
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Letter sorting from Creative Learning Fun
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Cutting activity from LOTW I had her glue the cut pieces onto a piece of paper so we can put it into her file photo 20131023_104702_zpsf68d9139.jpg

Beanbag toss
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Feed the Elephant counting game
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Fifi completed two workbooks (unrelated to the LOTW curriculum) this week and received certificates of achievement.

First Time Learning – Numbers
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First Time Learning – Counting 1 to 10
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Resources:

Previous for the Letter of the Week Curriculum: Letter A

“The Letter of the Week is a full 26 week preschool course designed to give your student a head-start on preparing for kindergarten! It is a 26 week curriculum that’s full of educational activities that focus on the letter recognition, sounds, number recognition, counting, basic math skills, pre-writing practice, and all the necessary fine-motor skills that will be required for your preschooler to be ready for kindergarten! Included are weekly lesson plans that cover all the subjects a preschooler needs and more!“

PreK Week in Review: Letter of the Week ~ A

Posted on 20/10/2013 by Momma Jo

This week we started with the Letter of the Week curriculum (see resources below for links) and Fifi L.O.V.E.D. it! We used this curriculum with koko a few years ago and he didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as Fifi does.

Our letter A wall
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Our Letter A biscuit snacks. We baked letter biscuits every week to go with our theme.
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Here are a few photos of Fifi busy with some of the daily activities

Using unifix cubes on her Aa lacing cards
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Ant colouring
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Making our letter “a” for our file (this will eventually become our letter of the week binder when she has completed the curriculum)
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The completed letter. She decided that she was going to colour the “a” in rainbow colours and use letter stamps to decorate it. The letter “A” stamps were homemade (keep an eye out for the “how to” post coming soon)
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Floor number beanbag toss. I changed this game up a little. Because the numbers are laminated, I was worried that she was going to slip when she jumped onto the numbers and hurt herself. I decided to make this a beanbag toss instead. She loved it and it worked on gross motor skills in the process! I put the numbers in two rows on our entrance steps. She then had to toss a beanbag at the number I called out. She loved this particular activity.
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Letter “Aa” tracing
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Roll an ant. She didn’t particuluarly like this activity. She find using scissors very tiring but I’m sure with time and exercise, she’ll start enjoying it more.
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Do a dot page. I don’t have dot markers, so we use our monster stamps. She loves it.
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Ant threading
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Ant graphing
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Resources:

Momma’s favourite photo of the week:
Fifi got a haircut this week. She got the full treatment at the salon. Wash, cut and blow. Spoilt little princess ♥
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