We’re getting into colder season here and that brings forth all the holidays and fun gatherings. Honestly I’m finding it hard to keep up with journaling our peaceful preschool journey. But I’m allowing grace for myself and going to pace the lessons at our own convenience. Afterall that’s the beauty of homeschool and none of the activities in this curriculum are overwhelming to carry out even.
Here’s a sneak peak into our Letter F activities.
Day 1
We couldn’t get hold of the book ‘Fish out of water’ from our library instead we picked up this book. It’s about a Fish wishing to be like other creatures around him but finally realizes his worth as a fish itself.
After reading the book we worked on the glitter glue letters. I prefer traditional glue and glitter over the glitter glue that comes in tube. That way they work more on their impulse control and fine motor skills. The letters even turn out bright and thick textured flashcards too.
I set up the counting activity in a tray with small plastic bowls and a ziplock bag of goldfish. She had fun counting and of course eating some of them in between.
A simple sensory bin invitation in our Trofast bin from Ikea. Green aquarium gravel is the base filler and I used some of our plastic fishes along with spoons and a glass jar to complete the bin.
She wanted to add water so I gave her a jar full of water and she loved exploring the wet texture of gravel. Those eye droppers added some extra fine motor practice too.
Preparing the fish bowl was fun. We painted the paper plates blue and used some felt for sea weeds.
Finish up with a yarn tied and it turned out really pretty!!
Day 2
She’s getting hold of writing on the sand tray. Making lowercase f was a bit tricky with the curvy lines. We keep tracing hand on hand in the glitter glue letters before trying on the sand tray.
These sea animal counters are from Target and I used our wooden number blocks to practice matching quantity to the numerals.
After counting she sorted the animals into different bowls and named them too.
A fun gross motor practice combined with learning letters. I simply wrote the uppercase and lowercase letters we learned so far on some fish cutouts and pinned on a paper clip on each. Using our magnetic fishing wand she pretended to fish for the letters I called out which are spread on the rug.
We chose the long leg painting by Edward Hopper for watercolor painting. She did pretty good with the blue sea and green island. I showed her how to draw some jaggered lines to look like mountains.
Day 3
This is our all time favorite touch and feel alphabet book. She love flipping through and feeling the various textures in the book.
We reviewed our glitter glue letters and tried to make some simple 3 letter words and she enjoyed the extra challenge.
I wrote the numerals 1-5 on a chalkboard. She’s still struggling to write numbers 2 & 5. I asked her to pick something from the room to match quantity on each numbers. She chose to count with some blocks and magnatiles.
This Melissa and Doug lacing activity can be done independently by her so I set this up for her lacing work. Working on the skills mastered helps to bring more confidence and she still enjoys this toy as much as she did before.
Day 4
I couldn’t forego letter F week without reading Rainbow Fish, all time favorite at our home. They also love to watch the animated story Rainbow Fish in youtube.
She practiced name writing in her LCD writing tablet. If you have a paint stir stick and some clothespin you could do this simple DIY name stick. First write the letters of your child’s name on the stick and the clothespin. Then let them match the clothespin to the letters on stick. I had these clothespin letters from Target dollar spot and I wrote lowercase letters on the stick for her to match.
Blowing Goldfish into the cake pan was engaging and hilarious. These tasks aid the speech development in kids. And when it’s a game they tend to do it more often.
She wanted to create a Rainbow Fish and here’s a simple rainbow fish you could also try with some celery sticks. Draw a fish outline on the paper and cut the celery sticks into 2-3 inch sticks. Let them dip the one end of celery stick in paint and stamp on the fish as fins.