As most of you know I am fortunate to have a 6 month child care leave of absence to spend with my girls. The plan was to have Lauren home for the first 6 weeks (which we just completed and it was wonderful) and then starting next week Emma will be home on Tuesdays and Thursdays with the girls and in daycare M, W and Fridays. I'm used to only having emma on Fridays and of course with only her so this will be a new and exciting challenge for me. My goals for the 6 months are of course to bond with both girls, learn as much as I can about both of them, have fun, and I also want to work with Emma to continue to grow her knowledge and skills. So the over organized person that I am created a 13 week (26 lesson plan) for her with the topics being Letter of the Day. We will focus on a different letter each day she is home and do lots of fun activities involving that letter. I will "blog" and post pictures of our adventures in letter learning. Emma already knows all of her letters and letter sounds but I wanted to work on site words with letters, small case letters and writing her letters and numbers. Basically prep for reading. We will also work on patterning, counting higher numers (above 30) and go on many adventures outside the house. Check out our blog each week for postings on what we did, I hope you enjoy and possibly find some fun ideas for your kids.
I have our daily schedule made with magnets on the fridge and our letter of the day and activity (exercise) of the day posted
August 20th Day 1 (yes it's a monday, but Emma was home sick so we started today)
Letter A:
Activity of the day: Arm circles and ankle rolls (put a masking tape A on the ground, every time she steps on it, she says mommy I'm on the A and we do 1 minute of the "activity/exercise of the day", she LOVED this!
Next we did "alphabet bug spray", I drew 26 Ants on the driveway with sidewalk chalk the night before and we created bug spray with water and food coloring and I called out a letter and she found it and sprayed it "dead", she did this twice after the bug spray dried the first time and couldn't wait to show dadd when he came home
Lessons learned: Letters, color mixing (food coloring in the bottle), pouring and filling the spray bottle by HERSELF of course
Our art project or craft of the day was an edible "ART" frame found on the website playathome blog. We melted white chocolate and made our frame and then filled it with goodies (pretzels, raisins, skittles, sprinkles and coconut) not the healthiest activity but she hadn't eaten much being sick so I decided not to care.
Our food of the day was applesauce (would have had other foods but she wasn't eating much)
Before nap we did letter worksheets and activities, practiced writing the letter A, circling A's in words, and coloring pictures of things that start with A. Yes she dressed up as Ariel the princess because she started with A. We read a poem about Apples and our books before nap started with A (Autumn is for apples and Arthur's new baby)
she asked for more letter coloring after nap. After nap we made A shapes with popsicle sticks and then just played of course for the day. She asked when we get to do B so I guess my day was a success.
And of course - we can't forget my other little sweetie Lauren, here are a few cute pictures from today
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