Preschool ~Pumpkins

Handwriting Practice...

We continue to move slowly through our handwriting practice. It isn't Smiley's favorite thing to do, so I am trying to keep it light and fun, mainly focusing on games. This week, we worked on the letter E again. We started by tracing our sandpaper letter E. 

We then did some letter E exercises from our Handwriting Without Tears (HWT) workbook... 

We assembled the letter E with our wooden pieces (part of HWT)... 

And we finally traced a few E's...

Reading...

Smiley continues to like his easy readers from our Hooked on Phonics Kindergarten pack. He learned a few new sight words this week and we practiced them through various games...

I put one of his sight words on his train track, and he had to read the word in order for the road block to be able to be lifted off... 

Pumpkin Theme...

Smiley has been really interested in pumpkins lately. So, we have been reading quite a few books about pumpkins, fall, and halloween. We also worked on several pumpkin printables from 2 Teaching Mommies. 

Making pumpkin patterns...

Labeling the parts of a pumpkin....

Measuring vines...

The highlight, of course, was a trip to the pumpkin patch (including hay ride) :)

 

Preschool ~ Sight words

~Smiley is currently 41 months old~

READING...

A lot of our week was focused on reading. We love the Ready2Read Program, which combines phonics families and sight word drills, as well as Carisa's You Can Read Program. We have been using both programs in addition to using ABC Reading Eggs and Hooked On Phonics. 

This week we focused on the following sight words: a, I, the, and, see.

Smiley used his car to help him read his sight words...

He colored them and then cut them out... (great fine motor practice for him!)

I love the cute sight word caterpillar. We colored the circles, laminated them and hung them in Smiley's room :)

We then worked on our phonics family by using this fun pasting activity. He really enjoyed this.

We then used Carisa's You Can Read Program to further work on these first sight words...

He used his car to drive from word to word...

(he did eventually use a pencil as well, but I didn't snatch a picture)

He loved this dot paint activity. We did "a" and "the" first. He then felt the need to completely cover the words in dot paint and it got a little crazy ;) but he really enjoyed it...

Ladybug THEME

We continue to learn about insects. We introduced ladybugs this week, and what better way then to start with a little craft. We had some flat stones and I thought it would be fun to make some ladybug stones :)

We covered them in red tempera paint...

and then added heads and dots with a black sharpie.

PLAY...

Megablocks were a big hit this week. Smiley built a castle for his cars ;)