Letter Tt

The bad news is that I've done an awful job of posting timely blogs about Cap's "preschool" time for the last month.  The good news is that we've been consistent with actually doing preschool over the past month.  (We completed the Tt unit on 6/9/11).  We've met our goals each and every week, which is a big deal for me.  One of my biggest concerns about homeschooling is, "Will we actually do the stuff?"  So far, the answer is yes!

Captain Silly Wiggles is currently 4 years old.

Our learning this week was centered around Exodus 20:15:

Thou shall not steal.

We actually talked about all of the Ten Commandments, but that's a little much for a 4 year old to memorize.  Although, I'm sure he could.  We sang the song, "Ten Commandment Boogie" by GoFish. Our letter for the week was Tt, our number was 2, and our sight word was "the". Once again, Cap absolutely loved the sight word reader! He's very proud of his ability to read a few words now and is asking me to read all kinds of environmental print to him.  He's loving school time and has decided that it's his job to take his workboxes out of the stack I bring them out in and order them very neatly on the table side by side.

On Monday we...

1. ...did the Getting Ready for Tt worksheet

2. ...worked on vocabulary cards: He didn't want to trace the letters.  So, just like last week, we  said the words together, emphasizing the T sound and then he cut them out.

3. ...made playdough Tt's.  (I made this one myself with paper, a sharpie & my laminator.)

4. ...worked on his cutting worksheet. He loved making the caterpillars feet move.

5. ...played with his Leap Frog Scribble & Write. He's played with this before, but never actually followed the directions.  It's was so exciting to watch him write and draw. He had a blast!  The picture is actually from Wednesday.  We did this one every day.

6. ...read the Tag Book, Ozzie & Mack. Again, the picture is from Wednesday, but we read it all three days.

On Wednesday we...

1. ...colored the verse. He wasn't really excited about coloring this week.  He made an effort and we moved on.

2. ...practiced writing some T's.  He pointed out that the T's looked sort of like a cross and decided to draw a circle for where Jesus' head was.

3. ...made a letter T tiger.  I was pretty excited about the tiger.  I'm usually not very creative, just good at doing things other people have done before.  I found several places that had made crafts from foam letters.  But I came up with the tiger on my own.  I'm sure many other people have made Tigers from T's. I was stil excited that I figured this one out on my own. :)

4...practiced writing his name. When Cap was in school last year his teacher had laminated a sheet of writing paper with his name written in regular and dotted lines for him to trace.  We worked on it, but it quickly became clear that he had no idea how to make the letters in his name.  We've got a little work to do on forming the letters before we come back to this one.

5. ...played with the Scribble & Write again.

6. ...read the Tag book again.

On Thursday we...

1. ...traced our Tt verse page.  Here he is showing me the circle he drew above of the T. :)

2. ...cut out the verse and taped it together.

3. ...did a T for T: We listed all of the people and things we could think of that started with the letter T then chose someone to give an T thing. This week he wanted to give his friends Timmy, Toney, & Tucker a Thomas the Train book.

4. ...did the 10 Commandments craft.  We painted the numbers with watercolors.  He enjoyed mixing the colors.  Then he cut out the numbers and glued them onto the tablets and glued the tablets onto the paper.

5. ...finally, we filled out his certificate and put all of his hard work in a binder.  And he spent some more time playing with his Scribble & Write and reading his Tag book.

We had another great week this week.  There were a few things that didn't go quite as well as last week - he didn't care about coloring at all after wanting to spend tons of time coloring last week.  Still, he woke up every morning wanting to dig into all of this stuff.  The fact that my kid is eager to learn is super exciting for me. I especially love the discoveries he's making on his own - like when he excitedly proclaimed that he could be a letter T or a letter L:

All of our printables this week came were developed by Carisa at 1+1+1=1. Visit her website for all kids of wonderful resources. You can find her letter Tt printables here: Tt.

The cutting workbook we used is called I Can Cut by School Specialty Publishing.