Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Letter "Dd" Activities

We're now on Letter D with our Letter Activities

Letter Identification.

Identfying letter "Dd" by putting a stickers on them. You should see how excited Lady Bug was, when she learned that we will be using sticker on this activity. She loves stickers so much, so I think we will be doing this again on other letters, or will try to re-create a similar activity.




Pre-Writing.

Letter D stamping activity


Tracing Letter "Dd" with chalk and chalk board. I pre-cut an uppercase and lowercase letter D on an illustration board. I introduce the letter to Jashley and Yanyan (our guest classmate for this session), and asked them if they can say a word that starts with letter D. And then I handover the letters to them together with a chalk, and did a little demonstration on how to do the activity.



This kind of activity can be classified as Multi-Sensory Activity wherein the child is using almost all their senses all at once in learning. They are seeing the letter, touching them, and also hearing its sound as we repeatedly saying it or using it with words. This helps the child retain the information they gather into their long term memories.

Another letter tracing activity using our wipe & clean flash cards.



Arts and Crafts.

D is for Duck craft.



d is for dinosaur craft.






Notice that this time I let her use the glue directly from its bottle as compare to the glue sponges we use from our previous activities. It is because (1) I realize I need to let her experience the bottle squeezing & glue spreading since it will also help in refining her motor skills (2) I have yet to add layers of sponges on our glue sponge to prevent her fingers on getting glue from the sides of the container.

Bible Story.

Photo from the Bible Kids APP
D is for David, the main character of our Bible Story for this topic. We have this Goliath face target that I got on this site, I pasted it on a cardboard to make it sturdy. For the stone I actually made a bean bag before for the similar activity we did at chuch, but I cannot find them. Since I didn't have enough time making them again before Lady Bug wakes up from her afternoon nap, I settled with socks that I stuffed with small toy inside to make it a little heavy, enough to beat our Goliath print-out.


This is a great gross motor skills activity. I bet she had so much fun with this activity cause she doesn't wan't to stop playing with it. I think this is a cue for me to prepare more gross motor activity for my ever so active toddler.




Featured Book.

Our letter D book is the Daddy Loves Me and the best seller Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell that my little girl loves to read.






Monday, May 2, 2016

Letter "Cc" Activities

Today's post is about the activities we did for letter C. We had a blast doing all of these as Lady Bug kept on asking for more activities every after sessions.

Letter Identification.

Because she want this spraying activity since we had it on our previous topic, we include it again in our Letter C activities.




Pre-Writing.

Tracing Letter "Cc" using a toy car and paint.




I also ask her to trace the Capital and Small Letter c with this wipe and clean Alphabet Flash Card I bought at Powerbooks.




Phonics.

This activity is similar to the clay surprise activity we did on Letter Bb. But this time instead of hiding the object inside the clay, I bury them on our sensory box. Then we identify which item has a letter B or C sound.





 Next was this gathering of objects that starts with letter C.



Spelling Activity.

We made use of our building blocks for this activity, simply write a 3-letter word on the long blocks and one letter per single blocks that will spell the word written on the long blocks. I also place the items beside each blocks that corresponds to the written word to make her understand more what was written on the blocks.





Arts and Crafts.

C is for Caterpillar craft.


c is for crab craft.


Bible Story.

C is for Creation. Made this craft about the story of creation using cardboard, construction papers, glue, stickers, cotton and scotchbrite.



Day 1: Dark and Light

She glued the white paper on the top half of the number 1 to represent the light and leaving the black bottom half that represent the dark.



Day 2: Heaven/Sky

After covering the number 2 with blue construction paper, I asked her to glue the cotton balls that will represent the clouds.


Day 3: Dry land and sea

Again she covered the number with green on top part and blue on the bottom half using a construction paper and then glued the pieces of scotch brite that will represent the grass on the land. Since a normal white glue won't work with the scotch brite, I helped her in this part and used hot glue instead.

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Day 4: The sun, the moon, and the stars

She covered the number 4 with dark blue construction paper that will represent the night and add the sun, moon and stars stickers.


Day 5: Living creatures in the water and birds in the sky

She covered the number with light blue on top for the sky and the dark blue on the bottom half for the sea and then I asked her to put sea animal stickers on the sea and bird stickers on the sky.



Day 6: Land animals and people

She covered the number 6 with green construction paper, glued the pre-cut paper human figure that I made, and then she covered the rest with the land animal stickers.


Day 7: God rested

She glued the pre-cut letter Z's on the number 7 that has covered with black construction paper.


Jashley and I love doing craft activities regarding the Bible stories we read, this will help her reinforce the lesson we were studying.

Scissor Skills.

Another skills that we were currently practicing is her scissor skills, I bought a no blade plastic scissor from national bookstore, and let her practice cutting with the clay.



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