We have spent the last two weeks working on the Letter N.  We have been off and on with school, but trying to integrate it into our play more the last two weeks.  Here are a few of the activities that we sat down to complete together.

We made a hat out of a newspaper.  She got a little confused though because she kept thinking that hat started with N and not newspaper!

So we cut up some newspaper into squares and then glued onto the letter N to help reinforce this.

We found some nests in some trees and made a letter N nest.  Then we took her number stickers and stuck on the letter N.  I also tried to get her to identify which number was which, but she wasn’t a big fan of this game!

We read and talked about the story of Noah and the Ark, then made our own ark out of paper plates.  We painted (she painted the ark and I did the rainbow) and then cut the ark plate in half and stapled on top.  Then we looked through magazines for pictures of animals and cut them out to stick in our ark.  There weren’t two of every animal, but she still got the idea I think.

For her birthday Sister Barbara and Sister Diane got her a really cool wooden ark and animal set, so we played with it a lot this week!  Such a fun gift and I love how it worked into our learning time the last two weeks!

We painted with noodles too!  At first it started out really clean and she just dipped the noodles onto the paint and gently placed them on her paper…

But then it got a a little messy when she decided she needed paint directly in the noodles and squished them all up together!

What true artist can’t multi-task.  Here she is eating her noodles and painting with them at the same time!  Too funny!

We move onto the Letter O next.  I am excited about learning all about owls and octopus!

Since we skipped Letter K accidentally, we back tracked and made it up last week.  Here are some of our K activities.

This is not a K specific activity, but I try to throw in whole alphabet activities whenever I can.  This was originally intended as an interactive letter line to hang on the wall, but I never got around to hanging it so we turned it into a game.  On each clothespin is a sticker of a letter.  She had to match the lettered clothespin to the correct letter card.  Both phonics and fine motor practice in this game.  She loved it so much I think we ended up laying it three times this day!

We made a letter K king by gluing a king crown on top an then of course she had to have her very own king crown!

She has really love typing letters lately and has recently asked for me to spell certain words for her to type.  As you can see, her number one is her friend Lylah’s name!

This is a color by number picture I made of a kite and the sun.  She did great at finding the right number and coloring it, but she still hasn’t caught on to color the whole area and not just the number.

Letter K kite picture.

Kite with her last name (which also starts with a K) down the string.

Kangaroo letter game.  I drew out a kangaroo and cut up different letter cards.  She had to look at the letter cards and fill his pouch with only the letter K.

We also glued kernels of corn onto the letter K, but I didn’t get a picture.  We did some counting with the kernels as well.  We move on to the letter N next since we did M a few months back!

This past week we learned all about the Letter L.  After a few days of studying, I realized I completely skipped the Letter K!  Oops!  I guess we will make that one up next week!  Here are some of our L activities.

We collected leaves and then did some leave rubbings.  She had a hard time with this because she is still not pressing down very hard when she writes.

Then we painted with leaves!

She had some leftover paint, so we practiced writing the Letter L using our fingers.

Handprint lion!

Bead balancing – I made a mound of clay and stuck an uncooked spaghetti noodle in it and then she slid on the beans.  Great fine motor practice!

While she was working, I made a lady bug out of the leftover clay.

A special lion lunch.  I served with a PB sandwich!

Letter L lion

Hand and footprint lobster.  I goofed and put her footprint upside down, but you get the idea!

Ladybug fun.  We made the paper plate lady bug and then rolled dice to see how many spots to put on him.  When we were finished we just glued the spots on.  This would be easy to adapt to addition by rolling a dice for each side, laying the spots on both sides and then counting them all together.  Then we made a Letter L ladybug by coloring an L red and then gluing on spots.

Since Mikayla’s middle name starts with an L, I decided to work on spelling it this week.  So, I made some letter cards and put them on binder clips upside down and had her put them in order.  We will continue to work on her middle name in weeks to come.

Next week we will move backwards to the letter K, although I am still struggling with activities for this one…