August 4th, 2012

I had a really hard time with activities for the Letter X.  I wanted to focus mainly on X at the beginning of the words and not the end (although this would have opened up a lot more learning opportunities) because we have been using beginning sounds on all the other letters!  We went back and did some old whole alphabet activities and counting activities in addition to our letter X ones.  Here are the few activities we did.

Letter X and Y, Miliwane, Katie's groups 004

She drew an X on the picture that didn’t belong.  She did great with this, even the last one that was two fruits and a vegetable.

Letter X and Y, Miliwane, Katie's groups 006

We went on a treasure hunt where X marks the spot.  She was excited to see a bag of marshmallows at the end, but sad when she repeated the hunt later in the day and there was no treasure there!

Letter X and Y, Miliwane, Katie's groups 023

We made a number xylophone by putting the numbers in order ad then she wanted to play it using her markers as the mallet.

Letter X and Y, Miliwane, Katie's groups 026

Letter X xylophone – she started by putting the colored strips in order from smallest to largest.

Letter X and Y, Miliwane, Katie's groups 028

After looking at X-rays from Ben’s cat scan a few years ago we made our own X-rays of our hands using Q-tips, just pretend that they are white and not blue!

We also practiced making X’s everywhere we went!  Next up…Letter Y!

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