Last week I mentioned that we would be starting our Letter of the Week Curriculum (LOW). I found this curriculum here, and am using it as a springboard for our activities each week. This curriculum centers around a learning poster comprised of a letter, number, shape/color, vocabulary word and nursery rhyme. It isn’t a very detailed program, but I think it is great one to use as a guide and then expand on it as you see fit. If you are looking for a cheap preschool curriculum (this one is free) then I would recommend checking it out. We are only one week in, and I am finding it very helpful. It also offers different levels if your child is older or younger than three.
As mentioned above, each week has a letter, number, shape/color, vocabulary word and nursery rhyme. I will be sharing each of those items from the learning poster each week and then expanding on them as I see fit. Here is our learning poster from this week.
And here are some of our activities for the week.
This is from when I taught kindergarten. She matched the apples (uppercase letters) to the worms (lowercase letters). Afterwards we had to use the worms as characters and play with them for a bit!
She made apple prints with apples halves and paint.
We put the characters from our nursery rhyme (Hey Diddle Diddle) onto popsicle sticks and then reenacted the NR.
I read her the story about the Little Red House and then we cut open an apple to see the star inside.
Then we took the poem version of the story and matched up pictures for each line. When I taught kindergarten we did this in a pocket chart.
We graphed apples based on which color we spun on our apple spinner.
Number spotted cows. She used glitter glue to make corresponding spots for each numbered cow.
We talked about real and fantasy and what fantasy in our NR and then glued pictures onto the correct side.
I was not very good with the camera this week, but here are a few more notable activities we did.
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I held up shape cards and she would jump for each square and touch her toes for any other shape.
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Part of the LOW curriculum is to have a counting book that you add to each week. This week we placed one sticker on the number one page and practiced writing the number. I will try to snap a picture in future weeks to show what the book looks like.
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Read some books about Johnny Appleseed.
I also have Mikayla doing a journal "writing" each day. I write the word and then leave an extra line for her to write the word if she wants to. She also has space to draw a picture or glue something each day. Some days she is really excited about writing something and others not so much. I only really push it on the days she is supposed to write her name (which will happen each week). Here are her journal "writings" for this week.
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Name – practice writing her name on designated spaces (this did not go well
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Cow – She glued a picture of a cow in her journal and then colored it. She also practiced writing the word.
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Apple tree – I drew the tree and then she stamped her fingerprints for the apples. She then counted the apples as I wrote the numbers beside them.
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Aa – she used her letter stamps to stamp A’s all over the page.