Letter of the Week
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter Z
Day 1 Find z stickers and put on Z Color and assemble Letter Z Book Go to library and get z books Make a zebra Lego Day 2 Fill in Z Outline and z Outline with carrots (zanahoria). (Other options: zeros, zippers, zebra stripes, zucchini painting) Draw a zig zag color by numbers She had to make me one too. 🙂 That I of course completed. Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Starfall Computer Activity Day 3 Run/walk in zig zags Make a Lego zig zag Activity Sheet 1 Activity Sheet 2 Video: Get Squiggling! Day 4 Zucchini muffins Sing zippity do da song “plenty of (z words) coming…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter Y
Day 1 Find y stickers and put on Y Color and assemble Letter Y Book Go to library and get y books Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Day 2 Fill in letter Y Outline and y Outline with: (Other options: yarn, yellow things) Stand and make a letter y Old versus young (look through photo album and see who is old and who is young) Sang the Yankee Doodle song Video: Get Squiggling! Day 3 Real yo yo Aluminum foil with yellow yogurt to write and play in. I had the baby playing with it too, so I decided to use turmeric and saffron to make it yellow…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter X
We only did three days for this letter. Day 1 Find x stickers and put on X Color and assemble Letter X Book Go to library and get x books Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Play the xylophone and make a Lego one. 🙂 Starfall Computer Activity Video: Get Squiggling! Day 2 Put an x on paper with tape and let her paint it and then pull it off (see picture below) Color in X Outline and x Outline with: toothpicks that make an x (other options: old x-ray film, q-tip x-ray, sixes, foxes, boxes) Play tic tac toe Activity Sheet 1 Activity Sheet 2 Video: Sesame street…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Social Activities, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter W
Day 1 Find w stickers and put on W Color and assemble Letter W Book Go to library and get w books Put out W words (wall, washer, washcloth, window…I highly recommend using masking or painting tape so nothing is ruined when  you pull it off) Activity Sheet 1 Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Day 2 Color in W Outline and w Outline with: She decided to draw windows in one and watermelons in another. (Other options: watercolors, walnut shells, white, wallpaper, watermelon seeds, wire, wood [could be wooden toothpicks], waxed paper) Now that school has started, I watch a friend’s kids after school, once a week. They…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Science, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter V
Day 1 Find v stickers and put on V Color and assemble Letter V Book Go to library and get v books Put out V words (vacuum, vase…I highly recommend using masking or painting tape so nothing is ruined when  you pull it off) Video: How It’s Made: Violins Video: 3 Year Old Violinist Video: Shake It Off – Chargaux Violin Cover Video: Mark Ronson Uptown Funk Viola Cover Day 2 Fill in V Outline and v Outline with: velvet, vines, vowels, violet, vegetables (cut out pictures from grocery coupon mailers) or use vegetable prints Starfall Computer activity Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Activity Sheet 1 Day 3…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter U
Day 1 Find u stickers and put on U (She’s basically over this activity. So, I have discontinued it. I think maybe it was too easy, but if I made it harder, it was too hard. 🙂 ) Color and assemble Letter U Book Go to library and get u books Put out U words (umbrella…I highly recommend using masking or painting tape so nothing is ruined when  you pull it off) Starfall Computer Activity Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Day 2 Fill in U Outline and u Outline with: she chose to draw ukuleles and umbrellas (other ideas: utensils (plastic), uniorns, u’s, u-boats, underwater scene) Upside down…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, 9-11 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Math, Preschool, Science, Social Activities, Teaching, the Give Way
“T” Party
During our Letter T week, we had a “T” party…get it, T like tea. 🙂 We initially were going for Tuesday the twenty-first at ten. But, then decided to have it while we had some Chinese foreign exchange students over. So, it turned into a party for the kids followed with dinner for the adults on Tuesday the twenty-eighth at three thirty. So, we ended up with 8 children ages 2 1/2 to 12 and 10 adults. It was awesome! The day before, we set up the tables in T formations, of course. And, I used a highlighter to write all the labels for things, and my daughter traced over…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Science, Social Activities, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter T
This week we started day 1 on a Wednesday, skipped the weekend and ended with day 5 on a Tuesday. Because, really, you can’t have a T Party on any other day. 🙂 Day 1 Find t stickers and put on T Color and assemble Letter T Book Go to library and get t books Put out T words (TV, toilet, table, towel, toys, tile…I highly recommend using masking or painting tape so nothing is ruined when  you pull it off) Starfall Computer Activity Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Day 2 Fill in T Outline and t Outline with: tape and tissue paper (other options: toothpicks, toilet paper,…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter S
Day 1 Find s stickers and put on S Color and assemble Letter S Book Go to library and get S books Put out S words (stove, shelf, soap, sink, stool, stairs…I highly recommend using masking or painting tape so nothing is ruined when  you pull it off) Streamer dancing: Tie streamers to wrists and put on a fan — I didn’t even put on music. She had so much fun dancing in front of the fan. Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Day 2 Fill in S Outline and s Outline with: sprinkles and drew suns (Other options: salt, sand, string, straws, sticks, seeds, stamps, staples, stickers, squares,…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter R
Day 1 Find r stickers and put on R Color and assemble Letter R Book Go to library and get r books Put out R words (refrigerator, roof…I highly recommend using masking or painting tape so nothing is ruined when  you pull it off) Starfall computer activity Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Day 2 Fill in R Outline and r Outline with: ribbon and rainbows (Other options: rice, red, rope) Ring around the Rosie Talked about relatives Video: Sesame Street and the Letter R Day 3 Row row row your boat — We just happened to get a big box of diapers in the mail. So, she relegated…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter Q
Day 1 Find q stickers and put on Q Color and assemble Letter Q Book Go to library and get q books Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Day 2 Fill in Q Outline and q Outline with: quilt pieces and question marks (Other options: q-tips, queens, quarter rubbings) Talked about quintuplets — #5, look at pictures, pretend have five babies She used her pie pieces from P Week and we talked about a quarter of it being 1/4. Video: Get Squiggling! Day 3 Walk around like a duck quacking Did a questions game — ask questions was basically it. Haha! Make a quilt — Lego one (with a…
- 3-5 Year Old, 6-8 Year Old, English, Interest Led Homeschool, Letter of the Week, Preschool, Teaching, the Give Way
Letter of the Week – Letter P
Day 1 Find p stickers and put on P Color and assemble Letter P Book Go to library and get p books Video: Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew We started reading Mr. Popper’s Penguins. She asked for an activity with it, so I quickly made her a themed bath for it. I cut up parts of a penguin out of foam, dyed the water blue and gave her a bowl of ice. She loved it. I made 12 penguins, but could have just done two or three (see pic above). When will I learn?! If it takes longer than five minutes (this took ten), don’t keep going! 🙂 (I…
