Letter O - Ostrich Week

These are our homeschool preschool activities for the Letter O and Ostriches week. Archer was 33 months. You can see our full "curriculum" post here, but we will only use some activities each week. The majority of his time is still unstructured play. This week he was not so into schoolwork, so we didn't do as much.

This was his shelf setup above his desk. I hung some bulletin board letters and his work from the week. The shelf had a letter construction capital and lowercase letters, an Alphabet Reader, a Meet the Phonics Letter Reader and a wooden letter train car.

I'm trying to include readers to read together, as well as books about the week's letter or animal. We had an "o" Book, a First Little Readers book, and a non-fiction sight words reader. 

There were his shelves for the week. I used Magnatiles to make an O on his white board and added some magnetic letters and fridge phonics. On top I have his Alphabet Soup Can and his preschool basket.

Shelves on the left had Little Bird, Big Hunger, Cone-Zilla, a wooden fraction cube, geometric shapes and a safari truck. Shelves on the right had a puzzle, Magna Quibix, his clock, an ice cream play set, crystal builders and a basket of cars.

Letter maze (free to print here).

Tracing cards and line tracing (free to print here).

Playdough with cookie cutters and a  letter stamper (similar to these) and see and stamps.

Beginner spelling cards.

Letter O and Ostrich Puzzles

Ostrich number cards and number tiles.

Magnetic Pattern blocks on his easel. (Template from Confessions of a Homeschooler)

Letter lacing with some laminated bulletin board letters.

Letter templates (From Tired Need Sleep)

Building an O with Cuisenaire Rods (template here)

I found a little printable workbook I bought when Xander was little. Archer had fun filling in the missing numbers.

We don't really go through his Toddler Time workbook together anymore, but he does occasionally look through it himself.

Drawing

Playing Little Bird, Big Hunger. He liked it so much we left it out on the shelves another week.

Crystal builders and Magna Magna Quibix on the on the light table were big hits this week.

Playing Pancake Pileup.

He's been playing Don't Break the Ice every time we're in the basement lately.

So ConeZilla is not really a toddler game. However, I bought it because I knew Archer would love putting the numbers in order. Plus, the rest of us can play according to the rules.

 

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Letter N - Nightingale

These are our homeschool preschool activities for the Letter N and Nightingales week. Archer was 32 months. You can see our full "curriculum" post here, but we will only use some activities each week. The majority of his time is still unstructured play.

This was his desk setup. I hung some bulletin board letters and his work from the week. The shelf had a letter construction capital and lowercase letters, an Alphabet Reader, a Meet the Phonics Letter Reader and a wooden letter train car.

I'm trying to include readers to read together, as well as books about the week's letter or animal. We had an "n" Book, a First Little Readers book, and a non-fiction sight words reader. 

There were his shelves for the week. I used Magnatiles to make an N on his white board and added some magnetic letters and fridge phonics. On top I have his Alphabet Soup Can and his preschool basket.

Shelves on the left had Little Bird, Big Hunger, a shape sorter, a puzzle, peg letters and a spinagain. Shelves on the right had some math puzzles, a farm toy, Magna Quibix, block buddies, lalabloom and a basket of cars.

Letter maze (free to print here). He completed it correctly, then colored all over it.

Tracing cards and line tracing (free to print here).

Cut and Paste Phonics Hunt.

We did our normal playdough routine with cookie cutters and a  letter stamper (similar to these).  We also used our alphabet dough mat (free to print here).

Beginner spelling cards.

Letter clipping (free to print here).

N dot worksheet (Confessions of a Homeschooler)

We got out his sandpaper letters and his sand tracing box. He then wanted to write some numbers.

Playing with peg letters.

Bottlecap letters. I think he only did about half of it (free to print here).

Erasing letter Ns on a chalkboard.

N puzzles.

N dot to dot (from education.com)

Doing some tracing from his Tracing Trails workbook.

Doing some 10s frames from our Construction Vehicle Math Pack

Reading a sight words reader.

Archer ended up loving Little Bird, Big Hunger

Tangrams really clicked for him this week. He played with them on the Osmo for a long time.

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