Fun Reading Pointer

My oldest son is just beginning to read. Reading is not one of his favorite subjects and is easily distracted. I had been using flashcards to cover the other words he is not reading but he was still distracted so I saw someone using a popsicle stick with google eyes. I knew the google eyes would not be interesting to him so I took him to Michaels and let him pick his own shape (a pirate ship) and glued it onto a popsicle stick.

So for less than a dollar he has a pointer he loves!

School Week 3, the Letter C

Preschool

Here are this week's boxes:

Transferring jingle bells (a favorite!), Matching the letter

Clothesline

Fall Leaf Sort (all items from the Dollar Store)

Letter "C" Items, puzzle

These are the crafts we did this week:

Cotton ball "clouds" on the letter "C" (printable from here

We made cupcake crayons (250 degrees for 15 minutes, let set until cool remove the paper and then freeze until set up).

Pom Pom catepillar (my three year old got crazy with the pom-poms!), Do A Dot Caterpillars

We read the following books for the letter C:

Curious George- H.A. Rey

The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Eric Carle

Chicken Soup with Rice- Maurice Sendak (one of my favorite stories from my days in First Grade!)

Caps for Sale- Esphyr Slobokina

Harold and the Purple Crayon- Crockett Johnson

Kindergarten

Bible

Our Bible Lesson this week was Adam and Eve disobeyed God. I did not have any crafts for the children, but we read through the lessons in Ken Hamm's A is for Adam.

At the end of the week we used the magnets from So Simple So Sweet to have the children re-tell the lesson.

Fall

We did two fall activities this week. First we made apples from yarn. They were adorable the directions can be found here.

We also made a fall pumpkin scene. The first day we sprinkled the seeds (spices), the second day our vine grew (ribbon), the third day our green pumpkins emerged (little green pom-poms) and the fourth and final day our pumpkins turned big and orange (pom-poms). The original idea can be found here. We used our gnomes instead of Calico Critters (we don't own any but own Maple Towns from the 80's but I am not ready to give them to my kids yet!)

We read books about apples and pumpkins as well as:

How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?- Margaret McNamara and G. Brian Karas

Leaf Man- Lois Ehert

Reading

We did a couple of reinforcing activities:

Pumpkin Poke Cards

Sight Word Cookie Flip

We had a crazy week. We started our week on Sunday (I would never do this, but my husband came home for a couple days and I did not want to have to worry about school while he was here). It was a good week overall and we accomplished pretty much everything we needed to. We were also able to attend a preschool song and storytime at the library (something that we have not done for a couple years, and the kids really enjoyed it!)

I am linking to:

Fun Letter and Number Tiles

The kids and I made a trip to Michaels yesterday to use my 50% off coupon on a set of Toob farm animals. After searching through every set I discovered they did not have any, but I found a great ancient Egypt set that will be used for an upcoming study on Egypt and a sensory box! On our way out I discovered that some of their dollar items had been reduced 50% and I found this scrapbooking sticker set. It contains four sheets, two of the alphabet, one of numbers and one of punctuation. I realized that maybe they would be great for word building (because I don't have enough letter yet- ha ha!).

I first cut out the sheets (they did not have perforation which made it difficult to tear out)



Then I laminated them, since if I just cut them I knew I would find these stickers stuck to items all over the house!

Then I cut them out!

I love that they included punctuation so they are very versatile and can be used for building sentences and math equations!