{"id":3630,"date":"2012-10-25T00:35:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T05:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2012\/10\/25\/preschoolletter-of-the-week-aa\/"},"modified":"2012-10-25T00:35:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T05:35:24","slug":"preschoolletter-of-the-week-aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2012\/10\/25\/preschoolletter-of-the-week-aa\/","title":{"rendered":"Preschool–Letter of the Week (Aa)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I mentioned that we would be starting our Letter of the Week Curriculum (LOW).  I found this curriculum here<\/a>, 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.  <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"LOW<\/p>\n

And here are some of our activities for the week.<\/p>\n

\"LOW<\/p>\n

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!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"LOW<\/p>\n

She made apple prints with apples halves and paint.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"LOW<\/p>\n

We put the characters from our nursery rhyme (Hey Diddle Diddle) onto popsicle sticks and then reenacted the NR.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"LOW<\/p>\n

I read her the story about the Little Red House and then we cut open an apple to see the star inside.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"LOW<\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"LOW<\/p>\n

We graphed apples based on which color we spun on our apple spinner.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"LOW<\/p>\n

Number spotted cows.  She used glitter glue to make corresponding spots for each numbered cow.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"LOW<\/p>\n

We talked about real and fantasy and what fantasy in our NR and then glued pictures onto the correct side.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was not very good with the camera this week, but here are a few more  notable activities we did.<\/p>\n

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    I held up shape cards and she would jump for each square and touch her toes for any other shape.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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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. <\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Read some books about Johnny Appleseed.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    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.<\/p>\n

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      Name \u2013 practice writing her name on designated spaces (this did not go well \"Confused)!<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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      Cow \u2013 She glued a picture of a cow in her journal and then  colored it.  She also practiced writing the word.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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      Apple tree \u2013 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.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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      Aa \u2013 she used her letter stamps to stamp A’s all over the page.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,136],"class_list":["post-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-low","tag-preschool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}