Letter W - Walrus Week

These are our homeschool preschool activities for the Letter W and Walrus week. Archer was 36 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 and the remainder of the letter weeks will be 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.

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 a peg letter.

We moved some things around in the playroom and now our shelves are in this corner instead of under the window. It still needs some adjusting. I used Magnatiles to make an s on his white board and added some magnetic letters and fridge phonics.

Shelves on the left had castle blocks, popsicle stick puzzles, a bin of magnets and felt shapes with a die for practicing colors in Spanish. Shelves on the right had giant large playing cards, geometric builders, Color Code, UltraDash, Magna-Qubix and a bin of vehicles.

Building a W with Cuisenaire Rods (template here)

Dot letters from (Confessions of a Homeschoolers)

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. 

Using Dot Markers to decorate a W

Letter maze (free to print here).

Making castle block towers

Using resin letters and wooden numbers to make me "lunch."

Playing with Happy Atoms

Reading books outside. Elephant and Piggie has been a favorite series for a while.

I found him trying to spell arsenic the other day. 😲

Since games are everywhere right now, he found Kingdomino and wanted to put all the tiles in order.

 

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Birthday Week Preschool Activities

I can't believe I am just now getting to Archer's birthday post! His birthday was mid May! I blame the basement renovation! Anyway, since we had a houseguest, Xander was almost done with school and the weather was finally beautiful, we went pretty light on the school work.

Playdough was the biggest hit of the week! I got out some silicone cupcake liners, number candles and googly eyes. Archer made cupcakes and monsters multiple times.

More play dough with his resin numbers. These were perfect since I used confetti sprinkles in them.

We did all of the pages from his Birthday Cuisenaire Printables

I found this adorable ice cream number sorting activity from TPT. It was perfect for my little guy who LOVES all things numbers. To make it easier, we did divide them into 1-10 and 11-20. Otherwise, it took up too much space for him to see all the cones well.

Cloud dough (flour and baby oil) with some cupcake liners, a scoop and his resin numbers.

These were some of the birthday themed books on his shelf.

Reading If You Give a Pig a Party made him want to read all of our Laura Numeroff books

Birthday cake dot to dot.

He found these giant playing cards and spent days organizing them (and just carrying them around). However, he hates the face cards and refuses to keep them in the deck.

Playing with pattern play blocks.

His big birthday gift from us this year was a boat and canal set from AquaPlay. I like it a lot, but it really does need a level surface.

Making shapes with geometry building set

Nice weather meant we got to blow up the kiddie pool!

Archer found his base ten blocks, so wanted to build several numbers.

Light table play

Historically, Archer has not been one to color. Luckily, he has been much more into using crayons lately. He mostly uses them to write numbers and draw lines and shapes.

Letter P - Penguins Week

 These are our homeschool preschool activities for the Letter P and Penguins 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 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, a peg letter and a wooden letter train car.

There were his shelves for the week. I used Magnatiles to make a P 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 Cooperation, Penguins on Ice, a car track and Tobbles. Shelves on the right had some Hot Dots, Magna Quibix, activity rings, a penguins Toob, an alphabet fishing game 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. He also used the penguins Toob to make little footprints in the dough. I got out his  alphabet dough mat, but he didn't feel like doing it.

Beginner spelling cards.

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

Building a P with Cuisenaire Rods (template here)

Penguin size sorting (free to print here).

Penguin lacing (free to print here).

Tracing the letters in his dry erase coloring book.

Tracing sand paper letters and then writing them himself. He really likes this box, usually wanting to write the numbers from 1-20 (DIY tutorial here)

Letter P puzzles.

This week he rediscovered his base ten blocks (they live on a high shelf and he forgot about them). He enjoyed making some numbers.

We tried out some Hot Dots. They were not really his favorite thing. I think maybe I need to give him a more challenging book.

Alphabet fishing game, although, he prefers putting them inside and using the magnetic "cat" to get them out.

Magnetic vehicles

Magnetic Tile building

Playing some Osmo Letters

Playing My First Orchard

Playing Penguins on Ice

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