Preschool: Big A, Little a

This is the first time doing a lesson with just Robert, so I'm still trying to figure out what he is ready and interested in. First, we did a nursery rhyme. His favorite is Humpty Dumpty which he acts out a lot in Hailey's bed by falling off the railing.

Robert says Humpty Humpty, which is so cute!

Then we read Abby Alligator in our big AlphaTales Book. Robert already knows all his letters and can recognize both uppercase and lowercase most of the time. After our book, we turned the Uppercase A into an awesome alligator.

Here's my example.

Then using an idea from notimeforflashcards.com, we turned the lowercase a into an apple.

My example.

Finally, I wanted to see how much he could do so I gave him two worksheets.

This one is from Winnie-the-Pooh to trace and write the letters. He is not ready for that but it is still good to go through the motions and give him practice with a pencil.

The astronaut came from "My Kindergarten Learning Book" by Bright Start: Learn & Grow (got it at Costco). It has little a's and Big A's to find and count. Robert wasn't into that today.

Our lesson lasted 30 minutes and it was nice having time with just him. Hailey was very jealous but a good sport and stayed in the front room.

Preschool: Abby Alligator

I have done "preschool" twice so far with the alphabet. (The first time was the beginning of Hailey School and the second time was with Josie's girl Audrey). One of the hardest things is getting good books for a certain letter. I got "Izzy Iguana" (which is about of the AlphaTales series) once and loved all the words they used with the letter I. Last year I saw that in the school's book orders there were selling AlphaTales books for $45. I loved on Amazon and was able to get all the books into one big book for less than $10 including shipping.

I've been wanting to do more activities with Robert was finally the house was calm enough that I could do this mini preschool lesson. First we read "Abby Alligator".

Then they colored their letter A's with markers.

After that, I cut out the letters and they could glue triangles for teeth to the A to look like an alligator's mouth. I thought it was a cute idea and Robert loves glue!!!

So here's there final product of turning the letter A into an alligator.