Lesson 2.2 (Alphabet)

Ok, we got this book and let me tell you, it was worth every penny! She picked up tracing letters with this book unlike tracing letters from handwriting worksheets or anything else I have tried. Buy it now!

We continue to do our flashcards and work on recognizing the letters by sight that she doesn't know yet. We are also working on spelling her name. We like to spell her name to the tune of Bingo, and so now the next step is learning to write it. We like this site for customizable worksheets.

Besides learning the alphabet, P has been attending swim lessons. I find swimming lessons (and just any lessons) so valuable. P is especially good at learning from other people besides me. I can go over a concept a million times with her not understanding, and then a teacher will tell her the same thing and she gets it.

We also held a yard sale where P sold her bike. She chose to do this on her own, and so we let her. She got two dollars from her bike, and was able to pay tithing on what she earned. She is still too young to understand the monetary units and value, but can recognize names and was so happy and proud to take 1/10th of her money to be used for our church. We have been letting Penny earn money for things she wants for a year now, and I find that she is really conscious about how we use it and how to save and give.

P has really been loving games and rhymes lately. So we have been playing Memory and learning to memorize some nursery rhymes. I love how much she is learning!

Books:

Hickory, Dickory, Dock and Other Favorite Nursery Rhymes

Illustrated by: Sanja Rescek

Lesson 2.1 (ABC's)

Song: The Alphabet Song

Scattergories: We used this game to practice writing her letters. She would roll the die, and then using the game clipboards and paper we wrote down the letters. She thinks that this is the actual game and wants to play again today!

ABC Flashcards: We used Usborne Books abc Flashcards. They are no longer made, but I have a few other items I am going to be purchasing, like this and this, to help with her ABC's. Usborne is such a great resource, check it out!

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By: Bill Martin Jr.

ABC U Later (Ugly Dolls)
By: David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim

P knows the names of all her letters, but has a hard time with A-N, she knows O-Z perfectly, so we focus mostly on the ones she has a hard time with.

Lesson 1.2 (Real Life Colors)

Song: Primary Colors

Today instead of a structured time like yesterday, we did real life application lessons throughout the day:

-On our way to the grocery store we talked about stop lights. We talked about the colors, red, yellow, and green, and what they meant. At every stop light P would tell me the color and what it meant (green means go! yellow means slow! red means stop!)
-At the grocery store P helped me pick up our produce. We counted, named, and talked about the colors of each vegetable and fruit. She pushed around a little cart full of the food she had helped package up.

Games:
One of our favorite games is I Spy. On our way to the water park later in the day, we played I Spy with colors. This was especially fun because our water park is very colorful!

Coloring:
After these two activities she colored in her Kumon coloring book. There were a few pages that matched what we were doing that day (stop light, umbrellas, food.)

Science and Hands On:
In the late afternoon we made playdoh from her Memaw's recipe. My original intention was to have her experiment with mixing colors, but she wanted pink and we have pink dye. I still think this was a good activity because anything with mixing, cooking, measuring, and ingredients, is in my opinion, a great step towards learning about science.

Book:

Ugly Colors
By: David Harmath and Sun-Min Kim
(These are some of our favorite books! Kids and adults love them.)