Week 14 - Letter J

Last week we went through the letter J - for Jesus.  I thought that would be a good start to the month of December.

The memory verse for the week was John 14:6 - "Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life..."

Letter J computer game

Wikki Stix

Grant wanted to do the wikki stix too...

Nativity lacing card

Cut and paste

Letter writing

Pre-writing page - can you tell she rushed through this one?

Do-a-dot markers - She thought the lowercase j was missing a dot between the top of the j and the dot, so she took it upon herself to add it.  ;)

Color puzzles

Geoboard - I love how she made the dot for the lowercase J.

This obviously didn't turn out quite like a J, but we tried.  :)

I was so proud of her with the patterns this week.  I had left the room and when I came back in, she already had them done...correctly.

Here's a close-up of the patterns.

Number cards - She added the correct number of stars to each card.

Working hard on counting the stars.

Letter Maze - I tried to find some "festive" stickers.

Letter J Pattern Blocks

Poke page - I love the look on her face in this picture  - "Mom, I'm trying to work."  ;)

Now that's better!

For her ABC book, she glued jewels to the letter J.  Of course she picked out all the pinks and purples to use - her favorite colors.

Letter J Puzzle

She practiced writing the word JESUS

Tracing page - again, another one she rushed through when I wasn't in the room to check on her. 

Cutting page

Coloring page

For the magnet page, she picked out the jewels on her own and used them to fill in the blanks.  I thought that was a great idea!

Upper-case and lower-case sorting

For the graphing pages, I just had her put the correct number cards next to the pictures.

As usual, at the end of the week, we read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and put up the letter J on our tree.

This week and next will be pretty low-key.  I figured with Christmas just around the corner, we'd be busy enough without trying to do a lot of school activities each day.  Plus we have an advent calendar that contains some type of Christmas activity that we do each day, so that also gives us something to do. 

Week 13 - Letter G

Ahh...I got 2 weeks behind on preschool posts!  :)  I'll try to catch up before things get even crazier the next week or two!

So a few weeks ago, we did the letter G - we stuck with the soft g sound of "guh" and stayed away from the hard sound of "juh."  I thought that would be too confusing at this point.

Our memory verse this week was Mark 16:15 - "And he said unto them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature."

Wikki Stix

Gumball lacing card

Letter G computer game - notice they have company for this one...because they're eating a snack!

Size Sort

Letter Search

Pre-writing page

Letter G Pattern Blocks

Letter G Poke Page

Letter G Do-a-Dot Page

Grant's do-a-dot page - haha...love his "smile"

Letter Maze - she loves these!  When she sees it in her tray, she runs and gets the stickers.

Color Puzzles

Letter Hunt

Geoboard - she only made the capital g, but I thought she did a good job with it.

Patterns - she did these all by herself!

Gumball Building - she did a good job copying the pattern, just not the correct shape.

Gumball counting - she had to put the correct number of gumballs in the gumball machines.

Grant wasn't around when Jenna was making her body into the shape of a G, so we improvised and used some "props."

For her ABC book, we covered the letter G with Glitter; however, as  I was getting the materials out, she started coloring it Green.  I was impressed that she thought of that on her own.  (I think I should have just stuck with the green coloring because the glitter has been a mess!!  It keeps flaking off all over the shelf - ha!)

Later that week, we went to the local mall to see Santa, so I let her get a gumball.  She was on CLOUD NINE!!  Thankfully the flavor doesn't last long, so she willingly threw it out after a few minutes.

Roll a gumball - To play, Jenna rolled a dice and then slowly assembled the gumball machine based on the numbers that were rolled.

Cutting Page

Gumball puzzle

Tracing page

Letter Writing Page

Number Cards - instead of clipping clothespins or paper clips to these cards, I just had her line them up in numerical order.

Cut and Paste Page

Coloring Page

At the end of the week, we read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and put up the letter G on our coconut tree.