Sighs:: Letter A

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Letter A

At the beginning of 2012, around the time Bella turned 2, I started doing some preschool "curriculum" I compiled through Pinterest focusing on a letter of the alphabet each week. I didn't do a good job documenting everything we did and the things that did and didn't work but I'm diving into it again and wanted to try to do a better job sharing what we do (and how it goes over).

We usually start the week off with a letter coloring page and an accompanying book cover to put our week's worth of letter activities in. I love the ones Mr. Printables offers.

Mr Printables Book Cover

I let Bella color this one and attached it to the finished collection of letter projects she did to put in her keepsake box. (Yup. I'm that mom.)

Letter A

I also use Tot School Printables to accompany activities throughout the week.

This coloring page is from Enchanted Learning, which feels pretty old school (I had a flashback to 4th grade computer class) but has some good material and quite a variety of activities for a wide age range.

We took advantage of doing a lot of apple oriented activities. Like one day we went apple picking around the house.

Apple unit | 2012

We also printed off trees I found somewhere and made fingerprint apples, going from 1 - 10 apples per tree. Not that it's necessary but I have a picture somewhere of it and it's driving me crazy that I can't find it. I'll post it as soon as I find it. Bella still needs a refresher on our numerical order so counting games are always good for us.

My absolute favorite resource I found through my homeschool preschool endeavor was Mommy School from Oopsey Daisy's blog. I used almost everything she offered for A is for Apples, including this story board with visual aids. (Sidenote: stories with visual aids are Bella's favorite. So naturally, I printed off every single one.)

It's not the prettiest flannel board anyone's ever seen but I made use of an old sweater and Bella loved it.

Another story she offered with accompanying visual aids:

That fancy looking tree was made out of thrift store sweaters.

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This fall we dove back into the fall themed crafts and activities, which included a lot of apple stuff. (obvs.)
One day we made an apple volcano! I got the idea from Growing A Jeweled Rose, which is a great resource for a lot of other awesome and unique activities.