Letter Z - Zebra Week

 These are our homeschool preschool activities for the Letter Z and Zebra week. Last letter!! Archer was 37 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 was pretty light. He's outgrowing a lot of the activities (but still asks for them) and we're remodeling our basement, which makes toy rotation and accessing material storage difficult. Plus, it is summer and we're trying to get out to parks and on walks when we can. I'm getting excited for next year's curriculum!

This was his shelf setup above his desk. I hung some bulletin board letters, a sign language card (from And Next Comes L) and his work from the week. The shelf had an Alphabet Reader, a Meet the Phonics Letter Reader, and some letter construction.

I used Magnatiles to make a Z on his white board and added fridge phonics. We had some zebra figurines and his clock.

Z puzzles

Letter maze (free to print here).

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

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

Letter construction (From Tired Need Sleep)

Letter Z Cut and Paste Phonics Hunt

Sand paper letters and letter writing in his sand box.

Letter Z dot to dot (from education.com). 

Using his See and Stamps on a big letter Z

Building an X with Cuisenaire Rods (template here).

Playing with his Osmo letters

We got a set of continent puzzles and he LOVES them. He did this North America one many many times in the last week.

Fraction magnets

Playing My First Animal Upon Animal

He has been so into his United States puzzle and the 50 Nifty States Song that we decided to let him try Sequence States and Capitols. He really enjoyed finding the states on the board, but didn't understand the idea of getting so many in a row to make a "Sequence."

The Scrambled States of America was by far the most read book this week.

We played some Stone Soup

He decided to use his letter construction set to make some numbers. I was actually pretty impressed.

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Letter S - Sea Lion Week

These are our homeschool preschool activities for the Letter S and Sea Lion week. Archer was 35 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 shelf setup above his desk. I hung some bulletin board letters, a sign language card (from And Next Comes L) and his work from the week. The shelf had an Alphabet Reader, a Meet the Phonics Letter Reader, a peg letter and a wooden letter train car. 

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

Shelves on the left had Magna-Qubix and wedgits. Shelves on the right had a some rhyming puzzles, some word puzzles, geometric solids, toddler magnets and a basket of cars.

Lacing letters.

Letter maze (free to print here).

Word puzzles

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

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

Cuisenaire rods.

S dot to dot (from education.com)

Dot letters from (Confessions of a Homeschoolers)

Painting an S with "rainbow" colors

Playing Count Your Chickens

Using some Osmo letters

Water beads in the water table.

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Letter R - Rhinoceros Week

These are our homeschool preschool activities for the Letter R and Rhinoceros week. Archer was 35 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 shelf setup above his desk. I hung some bulletin board letters, a sign language card (from And Next Comes L) and his work from the week. The shelf had an Alphabet Reader, a Meet the Phonics Letter Reader, a peg letter and a wooden letter train car. 

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

Shelves on the left had lacing letters, a wooden puzzle and his imaginets. Shelves on the right had a screw driver board, some rhyming puzzles, a pizza set, Koala Kapers, Magna-Qubix and a basket of cars.

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

Playdough with cookie cutters and a  letter stamper (similar to these) and see and stamps.  I got out his  alphabet dough mat, but he didn't feel like doing it.

Sorting the "baby" and "mommy" letters.

R Puzzles

Painting an R

Porcupine ring painting

R dot to dot (from education.com)

Working on his screw driver board. Some of these are still a nice challenge for him.

Rhyming puzzles

Matching instrument vocabulary cards.

We had a really nice day, so we used it for some water play!

Archer wanted to play with math cubes a lot this week.

Magna-Qubix on the light table

Numbering his bells.

 

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