Abc Review & Letter E

Well we had another adventurous week.  We had doctors appointments, sick kiddos, sick grandparents and little help.  But surprisingly we got quite a bit of learning time in! So we finished some of our letter review that we didn't get to last week. 

One activity we did was she had stamps of all the letters we have learned and she then got to put them in the correct matching line.  She did ok with this.  I think the stamps themselves were a little small for her hands.

Then she had to match picture cards that had the Big and Little letter on each piece.  She did really well with this, but only enjoyed it moderately. lol

Next she used the same cards but had to find the match around the room.  She also had fun jumping on the matching letters.





Next she had to find the matching Little letter and put a play-do dot on it to mark it.  She was able to locate them really quickly!

Then I rolled out the play-do and had her stamp the letters and numbers we have learned and tell me what they were.

Next I had her working with Wikki Stix.  She really enjoyed this.  It is still challenging to her though, so i think we will do this one some more.

She was very particular in how she laid the folded ones down.  The folded ends were always on the same side.  Her face is an expression of  "I have to fold this perfectly!!!!"

So then we went on to some "E" work.

Play-do pre-writing...

Case differentiating with Dot Markers...

Dot art...

Placing pink stickers on our letter...

"E" is for Elephant Pre-writing...

"E" is for Elmo finger painting!!!

For our Colors we used our Bears.

She had to match the bear to the color circle.

Then she matched her bears to the correct egg.  This wasn't a hit so much.

She instead wanted to pretend her eggs were cameras.....

And her bears need to be rocked to sleep...

 Then we got our sensory bin out and played snow ball fight with our styrofoam balls, since we have had the lousiest winter ever here lol.

I am not going to but our Bible theme work on here.  We are doing Easter themes from here on out so I will have special posts for the that.  But here is a sneak peak of one of our projects.  I will put at the bottom under resources some of the easter links I'm using.

 Ada has been trying to figure out how to put the cake back together....

 ...And decided her mouth might be helpful, but found out tasted AWFUL! lol :)

 Caiden has been working on opening and closing anything he can find! Here he is working on the play fridge :)

Best Buds!

Blueberry Madness!!!!

Resources:

http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2010/04/prek-letter-e.html

http://playinghouseinmaryland.blogspot.com/2011/03/lets-play-game-printable-included.html

http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/TotSchoolPrintables.html

http://www.dltk-teach.com/alphabuddies/daubers/index.htm

http://www.overthebigmoon.com/alphabet-stamping-sheets/

Here are the Easter sites Ive used so far:

http://hubbardscupboard.org/easter.html

http://tiredneedsleep.blogspot.com/2012/02/jesus-loves-me-lenten-activities-e-book.html

Penguins, God made me and More!

This week for our Bible lessons, we did a review on creation - which you can find here.  The we talked about "God made me" and the the first sin.

So we first worked on what makes us special. To illustrate this  I had her make the faces of Bella on her play-do mat.  We talked about how God gave us a mouth to talk to God and eyes to read the Bible.  I then discussed with her the importance of obedience and how it can make us feel to obey and disobey.  We later reinforced feeling with and iPad App that had her work on feeling words.


Then we talked about the story of the first sin with Adam and Eve.  I got these story telling pictures that I colored and then would place in front of her as I told her the story.

She then colored those same pictures as a mini book and I retold the story and asked her questions about what each page was about.

Here we are working on color matching with magnetic pom poms.  She started to get a little bored with this one.










I have another sheet for pom pom that helps with squares.  And for some reason she like this sheet more than the color one.








Then we did some penguin themed activities. First we worked on size sequencing.  This is a more difficult concept for her and she had a hard time focusing for this one.

Then she had to match a colored bow to the colored word on the penguins belly.  She had lots of fun with this one.

Next we worked with number matching.  The penguins are hungry and she had to find which penguin had the correct number for how many dots were on the fish.

Then she enjoyed some reading and an iPad app that worked on words and letters.

So you may ask yourself, what have the twins been learning???

They have been learning the word "No" 

"Ada, No -  don't touch that"

"Caiden, Ada - No, No.."



"Caiden, No - That's Bella's breakfast"

Hehe :) I love this age of exploring :)

Let's learn!

We worked on our numbers this week by using some Winnie the Pooh flash cards I got from the Dollar Tree.  A great place to get learning items!!!! 

I would have her first count the honey pots on the card I would give her.  Then I either ask for the number 1 or the word 1.  She did pretty good on this.  We do need a little more practice but we are getting there!

She then would flip over her matches and see the picture she made and would count whatever the picture indicated.

We then worked on some play-dough activities.  She made the number one with play-dough first, like we did with the letter "a".  I then drew a line down the center of the play dough and would then give her a stamp of either the  letter "a" or number "1".  She would then have to stamp it on the correct side.

Then she got to use the magnet pom poms I made her to make our shape of the month.  When I instructed her, I asked her to follow the lines when putting on a pom pom.  I was thinking she would put them right on the line, not in between the two.  How our minds are all so different!  

We did some other things this week with colors but forgot to get pics :-/ oops!

First week of Tot school

 For our shape of the month we are doing square.  Her first intro to this was tracing a square page that I laminated.  I got all the shapes from here.

Our color of the month is white.  I have these coloring sheets where we will color the picture first, then match it to the shape.  The next thing we will do is, there is another sheet already colored and we will match those with the one she colored.  However, we didn't color today because its hard to color white lol.

I made a sensory bin filled with white item to help with teaching white.  

 We also started to work on number 1.  She knows one pretty well so we are probably going to work really hard and trying to get her to write the number one.

We also worked on Letter A. But I'm saving that for another post as we work on a letter for 2 weeks.

And the twins worked on Reading...

And crawling!

And Ada is all about climbing :)