Every Monday I am reaching back into the archives to share the learning activities that we did last year when Little S was home with me.  Each week, we worked our way through the alphabet and we read stories, did crafts, and played games that helped reinforce the letter we were learning that week.  This week we are learning about the Letter H!   If you have any activities to go with our activities let us know!

Monday

1. Color the Letter H.
2. Trace the Letter H.
3. Color the Hidden letter Worksheet.

Tuesday

1. Talk about our homes (similarities and differences from friends/relatives/etc; what is in our homes).
2. Make the 3D paper house activity.
3. Practice your address.

Wednesday

1. Read But Not the Hippopotamus by Sandra Boyton.
2. Color the hippo.
3. Make the Hippo Paper Bag Puppet.
4. Make the Marshmallow Hippo craft (scroll down).  This calls for foam craft marshmallows, but I think we will use real marshmallows and frosting or toothpicks (be sure to help your little one with the toothpicks since they are sharp.) for a fun snack.

Thursday

1. Read Old Hat New Hat by Stan and Jan Berenstein
2. Make a hat or a hat out of newspaper.

Friday

1. Make a handprint turkey.  I love this project.  We are not having family over this year but if Thanksgiving was going to be celebrated at my house, I would love to do this for my dinner table cloth!

Next week, it is all about the turkey and Thanksgiving!

Every Monday I am reaching back into the archives to share the learning activities that we did last year when Little S was home with me.  Each week, we worked our way through the alphabet and we read stories, did crafts, and played games that helped reinforce the letter we were learning that week.  This week we are learning about the Letter G!   If you have any activities to go with our activities let us know!

Monday

1. Color the Letter G.
2. Trace the Letter G.
3. Make a collage of the Letter G.  Find all different kinds of letters (G) as well as things that start with the letter G.

Tuesday

1. Go to the grocery store and pick out some grapes.
2. Eat grapes for a snack.
3. Make paper grapes.  Cut out lots of circles in purple or green and glue together on a sheet of paper to make grapes.  Be sure to help the little ones cut them out.

Wednesday

1. Read Three Billy Goats Gruff (This link will take you to the text so you won’t have to have the book.  The link has a ton of ads and took awhile to load.).
2. Find things that are Smaller Than I Am/Bigger Than I Am Chart (Follow the link and scroll to Page 6.)
3. Make the Goat Toilet Paper Roll.

Thursday

1. Make the Craft Stick Flag in honor of Veteran’s Day.
2. We have a family member serving overseas, so I am going to take Little S shopping to make a care package to send to him.
3. Look at the color green.  Make green grass by cutting up construction paper and gluing it to a piece of paper.  Complete the picture by drawing the house, outside, etc.

Friday

1. Read a book about gardens and/or gardening from the library (any suggestions?  We have Maisy’s Garden by Lucy Cousins but I wanted to add a few more books).
2. Make the Paper Plate Poinsettia.  I chose this activity, because you can talk about flowers and how they grow in a garden and it would make a great holiday gift for a family member!

This weekend was gorgeous!  The weather was perfect for exploring Pensacola.  Corn mazes, hay mazes, and pumpkin patches opened up and there were lots of festivals to kick off the fall season.

Every Monday I am reaching back into the archives to share the learning activities that we did last year when Little S was home with me.  I decided that this week is the perfect week to celebrate fall!  Each week, we worked our way through the alphabet and we read stories, did crafts, and played games that helped reinforce the letter we were learning that week.  If you have any additional activities to add to the list, please leave us a comment!

Monday

1. Leaf Rubbings – Go for a walk in the neighborhood or at your favorite park.  Collect different kinds of leaves.  Lay them on the table and place a piece of paper over the top of it.  Color the paper so the leaf rubbing will show.

Tuesday

1. Color the scarecrow coloring sheet.
2. Complete the scarecrow dot to dot to practice numbers.
3. Make a paper plate scarecrow.

Wednesday

1. Make a library trip to get some books on Fall or October.

Thursday

1. Read Fall poems together.  Make up our own.
2. Make a handprint wreath.  Trace your child’s hand 10-20 times (depending on how big you want your wreath) and cut them out.  Glue them together in the shape of a circle.  You can also let your child paint their hands and make the wreath on paper instead.

Friday

1. Make a fingerprint tree.
2. Read our library books.