{"id":3880,"date":"2013-01-28T06:28:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T12:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2013\/01\/28\/preschoolletter-of-the-week-67\/"},"modified":"2013-01-28T06:28:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T12:28:14","slug":"preschoolletter-of-the-week-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2013\/01\/28\/preschoolletter-of-the-week-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Preschool–Letter of the Week 6\/7"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we found out we were pregnant in October I immediately got sick.  I was struck with some intense morning sickness (really all day sickness) that made it difficult to sit down for structured learning time with Mikayla.  So, I opted for occasional learning time throughout the day and put our regular school schedule on hold for a bit.  Then Christmas came and even though I was feeling better, we were pulled in too many different directions and again our regular preschool schedule got put on hold.  However, once we got settled back into a routine in January, I immediately started back up with our school time (with a few minor interruptions).  For the past three weeks we have been covering the LOW curriculum for weeks 6 and 7 as well as learning all about the ocean!  Here are a few things we did over the course of our learning time.<\/p>\n

\"LOW<\/p>\n

Learning Poster LOW Week 6:  Letter \u2013 F, Number \u2013 6, Color \u2013 red, Vocabulary word \u2013 waves, NR \u2013 Humpty Dumpty, Theme \u2013 Ocean<\/em><\/p>\n

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Learning Poster LOW Week 7:  Letter \u2013 , Number \u2013 7, shape \u2013 star, Vocabulary word \u2013 twinkle, NR \u2013 Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star, Theme \u2013 Oceans<\/em><\/p>\n

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She glued little fish onto the letter Ff.<\/em><\/p>\n

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She sorted pictures that started with F and those that didn’t, then she glued on the F pictures to a fish.<\/em><\/p>\n

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We went fishing for letters.  When she "caught" a fish she said the letter name and the sound.  She did really good with this for the first 10-15 letters and then just wanted to play. <\/em><\/p>\n

**To make the fish I just cut out fish shapes from construction paper and added letters.  Then I attached a paper clip to each fish.  For the fishing pole, I tied string to a magnet and then to a small dowel rod.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"LOW<\/em><\/p>\n

We made a Humpty Dumpty Egg (hardboiled) and then reenacted the Nursery Rhyme.  She got a big kick out of having the egg fall onto the floor!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"LOW<\/em><\/p>\n

She drew a self-portrait of her family.  Usually she adds more details to her pictures, but on this particular day she wasn’t feeling very artsy.<\/em><\/p>\n

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She put Humpty Dumpty together again!<\/em><\/p>\n

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We went fishing again, but this time with numbers!<\/em><\/p>\n

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We played a "How Many Fish in the Ocean Game" courtesy of  Jolanthe from Home School Creations<\/a> as well as a few other of our ocean activities.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"LOW<\/em><\/p>\n

We made a Girl wearing goggles using the letter G for the goggles.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"LOW<\/em><\/p>\n

She used her stamp pads and fingers to make fish in fish bowls according to the number on the page.<\/em><\/p>\n

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She used cranberries to match up correct letters of beginning sounds on a picture.<\/em><\/p>\n

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She rolled an ocean animal dice and then colored in squares on her graph to match.<\/em><\/p>\n

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She put star stickers on numbered squares.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This activity was a bit complicated for multiple reasons.  One \u2013 I didn’t have any lowercase stickers, which I thought I did when I planned in out.  Two \u2013 it took a long time and she lost interest.  If I were to do over again, I would only do a few letters at a time.  For letters that fly in the sky like b put in sky, for letters that are regular like a float on water, and for letters that go below the line like g put in ocean.  Since I didn’t have lowercase letters, I wrote them all out in her journal and then pointed to them.  Once she identified where they went on the picture I gave her the capital sticker.  Like a said, a little complicated!<\/em><\/p>\n

Our journal activities for the two weeks included:  practicing writing her name, cutting out pictures of red things from a magazine and gluing in, stamping letters we were studying as well as matching letters that were written on the page to her stamp, a free writing story about the ocean, and drawing and writing fish.<\/p>\n

We also made a beautiful ocean mural that I failed to snap a picture of.  I will try to get one soon and post it.  We painted a sheet of chart paper to look like the ocean one day and then the remainder of the weeks we worked on different ocean creature art projects to include.  I think it turned out pretty good.  Another fun thing we did was read the book The Rainbow Fish<\/u> (if you have never read it go read it today!).  Then she colored a fish to look just like the rainbow fish.  In the story the rainbow fish has these sparkly scales, so I decided to allow Mikayla to earn sparkly scales for her fish.  I chose an activity that she really struggles with, staying at the table and eating during meal times.  So, for each time she stays put and eats she gets a sparkly fin!  When I taught kindergarten I did the same thing, but the kids could earn a sparkly fin for any good deed that they did at school or home.  I had some science activities planned that we never quite got to.  I still might do them in the upcoming weeks because I am sure she will love them.  I am sure we did other fun things over the course of the two weeks, but that is all I can remember for now.<\/p>\n

Next week we will move on to LOW Week 8, where we will be studying the letter H, the sun, and Hickory Dickory Dock!  It should be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we found out we were pregnant in October I immediately got sick.  I was struck with some intense morning sickness (really all day sickness) that made it difficult to sit down for structured learning time with Mikayla.  So, I opted for occasional learning time throughout the day and put our regular school schedule on […]<\/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":[138,143,136],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-low","tag-ocean","tag-preschool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","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=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}