Letter S

Happy Tuesday! We're really slowing down over here! Lately we're only averaging 1-2 days of school a week so it's taking us quite a while to get through each letter. Oh well. It is what it is. I'm thinking we'll go until around Memorial Day and then I'm not going to worry about doing any kind of schedule over the summer. Ro will be in legit preschool this fall and we have Baby Girl coming in September.....at which point I'm thinking I'll peace out for a while. So perhaps I'll try to squeeze in just a few more posts before then! Here's what we did over the past couple weeks for letter S:

Day 1:

• Bible Story/Memory Verse
• Introduced Letter S flashcard
• Hole Punch Number Game
• I cut out ten circles and wrote #'s 1-10 on them. Then I gave Rowin a hole punch and told him to punch the same amount of holes that it said on each circle. (He LOVES using a hole punch, so this was a hit!)

• Rhyming Activity
• We have these rhyming stamps, so I just made this little activity for him. I gave him several different stamps and he had to find the ones that rhymed and stamp them on the paper (goat + boat, nose + rose, etc.)

Not a great picture-sorry!

Day 2:

• Bible Story/Memory Verse
• Reviewed A-S
• Letter Maze

Free printable here!

• Block Letter-Rowin traced it with his finger and then filled it with snakes.

Free printable block letters here

• Cutting Practice-I just used a couple of the shapes from a cutting worksheet and had him practice cutting them out.

Free scissor skills packet here!

• Fun with Foam Beads
• These are from the Dollar Tree (I forget what they're actually called) but I've seen them at JoAnn's too. It's kind of like play dough, but it's a bunch of teeny tiny sticky foam balls-super fun. Rowin used it to practice making an S and then they both just had fun creating things. 

Day 3:

• Bible Story/Memory Verse
• Reviewed A-S
• Dot Marker Page
  
  
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• Name Rocks-Rowin found five rocks and painted the letters in his name on them. Meanwhile, Rayna painted her own rocks. Pink and purple are her jam-it starts young.

• Snake Craft

That's all for now. Have a great week!! :)

Letter R

I have to be honest, this was a rough week in our house. Cold and rainy all week so we were stuck inside. Everyone was driving everyone crazy. Rowin had no interest in anything I had prepared. All that to say, we only did two days of school this week, and we did the minimum at that. Ahhh!! Just one of those weeks. :/

Day 1:

• Bible Story: We finished our Jesus Calling Children's Bible, so we just started the Jesus Storybook Bible-love it!!
• Introduced letter R
• Color by Letter

Free printable HERE!

• Block Letter-traced with finger and filled with rocks (These were a souvenir from a little trip we just took. He and Rayna are obsessed with them-so funny!)

Free printables HERE!

• Paint Bags
• I made one for each of them. I just squirted a little bit of different color paints in a quart sized bag and then taped them to the table. 
• Rowin practiced writing capital and lowercase R's. Since the table is blue, it was hard for them to see, so we slipped a piece of white paper behind the bags so that they could see the letters better. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• After he had practiced writing a few R's, we pulled out some cookie cutters and they had fun making different shapes in the paint. When they were all done, I taped them to our glass, back door so they could play with them for a few more days. 

Day 2:

• Bible Story/Memory Verse
• Reviewed A-R
• Dot Marker Page

Free printable HERE!

• Pattern Puzzles
• I started a few patterns and had Rowin finish them. Then he created several of his own. 

Not sure what this smile/grimace is?

• R Craft-We made a ROWIN for the letter R! He thought this was pretty hilarious. :)

Overall, not the best week in our family's history, but tomorrow's a new day. We're all learning how to extend and receive grace over here. This past week felt like a big failure, but I'm thankful that the Lord doesn't expect me to be a perfect mom. He expects me to fail, but to recognize my weakness so that His strength can be perfected in me. I am certainly a work in progress-my kids will be the first to tell you that, but his grace is sufficient for me.