Last week we studied the Letter T in PreK with Li’l Bit. It was kind of a short week in that we had to cut out early on Tuesday for an afternoon orthodontist appointment in our old town (45 minutes away), early on Wednesday for an afternoon therapy appointment an hour away (normally it is a different town half an hour away), and then we also had the plumbers here with the septic issues, painters here all week working outside and … it was just a crazy week of having to go here and there and everywhere.
Top to Bottom: PaTTern Blocks Memory Match, “Taking a Trip” made a suitcase and cut out Things to Take; Tracing T words like Tree and carroT and putting on the T page in our alphabet book; cutting out Traced lines; one-to-one counTing with doTs
Running from appointment to appointment with our three younger children (and sometimes the big ones) in tow is just life sometimes with multiple children with multiple needs and an old home that sometimes has old-house issues. Alas, we still managed to have lots of learning with the Letter T in the spotlight. For our Bible story, we read about Abraham and Lot and how they traveled with tents and how Abraham let Lot choose which land in which he wanted to settle.
Top to Botton: Highlight of the week–finding a Tree Frog in the yard; studying letters and words with our naTure letter cards; Telling a story in a book made with big bro and big sis; played Chutes and Ladders and looked for the letter T everywhere; narrated stories for Tiger and Lion puppets made last week; had stories and one day of school in a “tent” built over her rug; and tried to Train our hens to lay some more eggs!!!
Li’l Bit can tell me what sound EVERY SINGLE LETTER makes, which thrills my heart. She is already figuring out words by looking at the beginning and ending letters, and she is reading many CVC words. Truth be told, if I pushed at all I think she’d be reading well within 6 months. I’m just not interested in pushing, but I am putting a pallet of choices in front of her! I plan to share more about what we’re doing with pre-reading in another post.
This week, we’re exploring the Letter C and learning about colors and Joseph’s Coat of Many Colors. I will post more about that this weekend hopefully. If you are looking for more Letter/Alphabet activities, please follow my Pinterest board: A is for Apple (and other ABC Ideas).
