Preschool: C is for Cat

We started a new nursery rhyme this week: Little Jack Horner.

Today, I had Kira and Gabe over again. When we started preschool only Robert and Kira wanted to join me. I was very excited that Robert wanted to do preschool.

So we went over the nursery rhyme and then read CopyCats out of the AlphaTales book. Instead of trying to turn the letter C into a Cat, we just make cats with paper plates and paint. I got the idea off of notimeforflashcards. When I started pulling out the paints, Gabe and Hailey decided to join us.
The finished product.

Hailey's is top left with Kira's next to hers. Gabe is bottom left with Robert next to his.

Preschool: B is for Bubble Bear

I watch Gabe and Kira on Tuesdays for almost two hours. We had preschool during their time here. But first, they wanted snacks.
Then we went over Humpty Dumpty. Kira and Gabe haven't done Humpty Dumpty before, so it was fun going over it. The main reason why my kids are familiar with nursery rhymes is because of story time at the library.

Then we read Bubble Bear out of the AlphaTales book. After that I wanted them to turn their capital B's into bears. Kira really wanted a bunny instead.

It ended up just having fun with glue.

Then to get everyone familiar with the lowercase b we turned them into boats.

Gabe loved gluing but the bottle was running out and he had a hard time with that. I love his facial expression.

Robert went crazy over gluing! It must be a boy thing.

So here is my example.

While we were doing this, I thought of another way to make a lowercase b with a baseball theme. I tried my hardest to get the ball to touch the bat to look like a b but it was too difficult. Anyways you get the idea.

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.

AlphaTales: Bubble Bear

We read B is for Bubble Bear out of our AlphaTales book. Then I tried to have them turn the letter B into a bear. Then they couple punch out "bubble" circles.

Robert really likes gluing.

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.