Alphabet Review

I'm really glad I started Hailey School. We are done with the Alphabet Unit. Here is a video of Hailey saying her ABC's. (Sorry I can't turn the video.)

Before we started Hailey would only repeat a handful of letters and a lot pf them sounded like "e". Now she can clearly repeat her letters after me and even say a-g by herself. I know she looks forward to Hailey School and that time alone with mommy.

Next week we will start our Colors Unit.

Updated Wall Caterpillar

Here is an updated picture of our ABC caterpillar. It helps having a visual up of the letters. Hailey will go to it throughout the day, pointing and saying different letters. (She doesn't say the correct letters all the time but she's at least learning something.

Caterpillar template is from: http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/insects/mcaterpillar-letters.htm

C is for Caterpillar

For the letter C we focused on Caterpillars since we did Butterflies for B, I felt like it would flow nicely together.
Here is Hailey using crayons to color the C shaped caterpillar.

This cute little paper has a caterpillar and a butterfly to pops out of the cocoon. Also it has a butterfly finger puppet that was fun to play with. This came for the Primary Activity Book Volume 2 that goes along with the Nursery/Sunbeam manual.

Here is Hailey fascinated with the finger puppet.

Then we painted egg cartons green to turn them into caterpillars.

After they dried, I poked two hole in the top and looped one pipe cleaner through the holes. Then I curled the pipe cleaners with a pencil. I also glue the eyes on with Elmer's glue (not the best choice, a hot glue gun would've been better.) Cutting the eye carton and poking the holes was harder then I thought it would be.

I thought this activity was so cute that I wanted to do it too. Since Robert was asleep I even had free hands to do it and be more involved. Hailey stays with the task at hand when she sees other people doing it too. My finished project is on the left side.

This is the caterpillar that we add to when we introduce a new letter. Under the stairs is Hailey's toys and the caterpillar with help decorate the wall surrounding the toys.

We also read the same butterfly books that we had for the last lesson.

Starting the Alphabet

To start off Hailey School, we did an overview of all the letters. Frequently in the car, we repeat the alphabet and Hailey's version is: A, B, C, E, A, B, A, B and then other random letters that are hard to distinguish from each other.

I got this idea of alphabet fishes from http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/ and tried to make my own. I laminated the fishes so they will last longer. Also I couldn't find any eyelets that were magnetic but I thought the design was way cute, so I put eyelets in and put a paper clip near its tail. Hailey was excited to play with the fishes.It was hard pick the fishes up with the magnet, maybe it's because the magnet isn't strong enough, the fishes are too big, or the paper clip wasn't in the best position.

After we got a fish, I would tell her the letter and she would repeat it. She had fun putting the fishes we caught in a pile on the couch.

After we caught all the fishes, we read Dr. Seuss ABC board book together. Also, we read Brainy Baby ABC's.

I made a file folder that has the Sign Language Alphabet and little pictures of things that start with a certain letter. I got the idea from http://onelittletwolittle.wordpress.com/category/tot-school/file-folder-games/ I also had this laminated but didn't have time to put on the Velcro.

This activity was a little harder to do and I had to nurse Robert during this time so I couldn't help as much as I would like.

Another activity I made but we didn't end up doing is ABC bingo. I made four bingo boards using a table from excel and ABC stamps. I think this might be a little too advance for her right now.

At the end of school, we put the caterpillar head on the wall and each day we'll add the letter we worked on. I got the template from http://www.dltk-kids.com/CRAFTS/INSECTS/mcaterpillar-letters.htm I also laminated them after I color them.