*All of the daily ideas I’m using come from Pinterest and you can find them on my Pinterest Boards. Most of the weekly ideas are my own and can also be found on my Pinterest Boards.* P.s. If you are wondering why certain words are bolded certain day, it’s because each day of the week that is our daily theme that relates to our weekly theme. I hope that makes sense. :)
Just fyi, I may not follow my weekly plans exactly. Sometime this year we will do a potty training week and I also combined TV shows and Movies into one week. I also want to do Colors and Shapes again this year, so there may be minor changes, but you will know about them if you follow my blog. :) For example Ocean/Beach week just moved to March 30th.
Letters M-R
Monday: We’re planning to go to the library to do something similar to circle time. We may have some books to pick up or we may not, but we will be taking back some. The books I requested are called 123 vs ABC and First ABC. M will be our focus. We’ll also read our 2 Monday books, 5 little Monkeys jumping on the bed and 5 Little Monkeys sitting in a tree since our focus is M and my little guy loves monkeys.
How it Went:
We didn’t end up going to the library. We renewed books, so we didn’t have to take any back. My little guy has been really grumpy at night, but won’t sleep longer than 1 ½ hours for a nap, so I think he needs 2 a day again. So, we’ll read the books we already have and pick up the new ones this week sometime. We also read the books about the letters. One is dictionary and we went over all of last weeks letters. We talked specifically about the letter M and words that start with M in this book. The other is Animal Alphabet. The animals are in the shape of the letter they start with. It’s written by Suse MacDonold. We both really like this book.
Tuesday: I think we’ll just keep going with the same ABC songs as before. The original and then both of the ones on my Pinterest board Week 11: M-R. We’ll be focusing on N this day. To keep N our focus, we’ll probably take about things that start with the letter N. We’re going to add a leprechaun song and search for gold for St. Patrick’s Day.
How it Went:
We learned about the letter N in our children’s dictionary book. We sang the original ABC song. We also listened to the animal ABC song. We didn’t sing the Leprechaun song, I totally forgot about that. We did a scavenger hunt for colors. I wrote on each color things like, Roses are Red, Trees are Green, etc. He found each of the colors by whatever object was that color. At the end, he found a “pot” of gold! He liked it because most of it was outside. I think we’ll do it again next year! :)
Wednesday: O is our focus. I think we’ll do the coloring page for O. I was going to switch it up the art activity, but I think I’ll wait until he’s older and knows his letters better. I like that he can practice the words that start with that letter.
How it Went:
We learned about the letter O from the children’s dictionary and talked about words that start with O. We again read the Animal Alphabet book. He didn’t really color the picture, so we’ll finish it tomorrow.
Thursday: Our focus today will be P. It’s getting warmer here, so maybe we’ll break out the side walk chalk. I can draw (not well) some things that start with the letter P. I think he will like this activity, we’ve never used our own chalk before! This idea came semi-indirectly from the pin DIY alphabet games. We’re going to do the Shamrock painting activity for St. Patrick’s day.
How it Went:
He loved the chalk! Way more than finishing his coloring page from yesterday. He colored all the pictures and letters I drew for him. We ran errands today and didn’t have time for the St. Patrick’s day activity, we’ll plan to do that tomorrow. We also got 2 new books from the library! One is a trace and lift the flaps which I love! Lijah loves lift the flaps. I think it will better help him to recognize the letters, but he’s still young, so I’m not pushing it. The letters are more for an introduction than anything else.
Friday: Today’s focus will be Q. We’re going to do a sensory idea and our “bin” will be the bathtub. We could either do glow in the dark letter to fish or just regular colored letters. We may have to do both since some are missing. We’ll fill the bathtub with water, put the letters in and either find the magnetic fishing pole my mom made or make a new one. We’ll talk about some words that start with Q to keep our focus on that letter. I modified the idea slightly. This idea comes from 20 ABC Games for Boys. I also liked the other one in the bathtub, alphabet soup, but we don’t have those ABC bathtub letter yet. I’m also not sure he is ready to recognize the letters, maybe just say them, but it’s worth a test. We completely forgot about the St. Patrick's Day activity from last week. Oh well, 1 activity for the holiday is just fine! :)
Our makeshift fishing pole :)
How it Went:
He really loved our makeshift fishing pole, but couldn’t really figure it out. We had him hold the magnet only to get the letters out and that worked out just fine. We had him repeat the letters he pulled up and sometimes I would say a word that started with that letter. We just used his leftover bath water. He had fun with it and tried to get in the bathtub a couple of times. :)
Saturday: We’ll be focusing on R today. My first thought for food was make a bunny (rabbit) which wouldn’t be too hard, but he knows that animal as bunny, not rabbit. Then I thought I could make a rhinoceros. I looked up ideas, pretty difficult. I thought of a simple way to make it, but then a rabbit might be better. I could teach him that some animals have more than one name. Plus, Easter’s coming up. Next though, I could make a 4 leaf clover since next week is St. Patrick’s and we don’t have anything planned in regards to St. Patricks, but it doesn’t start with R. Maybe we’ll do St. Patrick’s activities on Tuesday and Thursday and stick with a food bunny for Saturday. It’s decided, the plan is to do something similar to the pin of the bunny on the board!
How it Went:
I forgot to do this in the morning and we maybe gone for dinner, so it may not happen. I may need to improvise...we’ll see what happens.
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