Letter N

Everybody in our house is finally healthy so we were able to put a little more time into school this week. I'm trying to incorporate Rayna into what we're doing more because she so badly wants to do what her brother is doing, but it's so hard because she makes everything 10X more work and usually colors all over whatever Rowin is working on. Our first day of school this week, she actually just got to watch a Praise Baby by herself, but after that, we tried to include her. :)

Day 1:

• Bible Story/Memory Verse
• Reviewed A-M and introduced N
• Letter Hunt-I used a bunch of felt and foam letters and Rowin had to find the capital and lowercase Nn's.

• Letter Maze-He had to find his way from the net to the butterfly, by going on the N squares. 

Free printable here

• Beginning Sounds Game-We each picked a letter-Rowin was b and I was n, so we put candy hearts on the Start frogs on each side. We took turns rolling a die. When it was your turn, if it landed on a picture that started with your letter, you got to move your candy heart one space. The first person to reach the pond won. I found this at www.thisreadingmama.com. She has these games for all different letters too, and they're free!

• Cutting Practice: "Is Anybody Home?"-He had to cut from each door mat to it's house. 

Free printable here

Day 2:

• Bible Story/Memory Verse
• Reviewed A-N flashcards
• Block Letter
• First, he filled it with noodles.
• Then, we made noodle necklaces. 

Free printable block letters here

We had these fun planes, trains, and cars noodles-thank you Aldi. They were a lot easier to string onto the necklace than the macaroni!

Rayna helped make a necklace too!

• Writing-We worked downstairs today so we got to use our big chalkboards for writing. I modeled a big N, using the verbal prompt, "Big line down, frog jump. Diagonal down and up." Rowin erased it wet, erased it dry, and wrote one himself. For lowercase n, we said, "Down, up and around."

Rayna girl was pretty happy to be part of the action.

• Workbook writing practice-We haven't pulled this out in months! In the fall, he was just getting frustrated when we tried to do it, but he's been enjoying writing, so I thought we'd pull it out again and give it a try. He did great ("now that he's four") ;) and actually wanted to go back and do some of the pages we had skipped!

Day 3:

• Bible Story/Memory Verse
• Reviewed A-N flashcards
• Cutting Practice-Shapes (He was kind of overwhelmed when he saw this page so I had him pick out two shapes to cut out.)

Free printable: follow same link as "Is Anybody Here?" cutting practice above

• Dot Sticker Page-Rowin filled in all of the circles with sparkly glitter stickers.

Free printable here

While Rowin was working, I drew a bunch of circles and told Rayna to put the stickers inside the circles. I was actually surprised that she did it! Maybe I've been underestimating her??

• Name Practice-First he practiced tracing his name. Then he practiced writing it by himself. 

• N is for Numbers Craft-Rowin glued on the N and then added a bunch of numbers to it.
  

• N-N-Nut Game-I gave Rowin a bowl of nuts and a die. Every time he rolled the die, he had to eat that many nuts until they were all gone. He loved it! :)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  We had a fun week learning letter N! See you next week!