The letters G and H (Hearts and Valentines)

I don't have a whole lot to say about the letter G. I kind of just did my normal thing.

We also started H!

For H I decided to focus on hearts since it's almost valentines day. We made hand made cards for grandparents, and also their dad. (It's the tradition in our family that the dad gets his girls something and the mom gets her boys something and visa verse. We don't have boys...so there you go.)

The cards were super fun to make, and I think they are so much funner to get than a store bought card. :)

Below in the top left corner you will see the foam stickers that I bought-just at Walmart. They were fun, and some of them sparkly! -A girls favorite thing! And the girls could put them on themselves.

Then we went to work on Valentines for all of the 17 cousins that live in town. My oldest wasn't too happy about having to write her named 17 times, but it was good practice!!

(Not to mention that kindergarten screening was today, and she did EXCELLENT except that she wouldn't write her name, and told them she only knew the T. She has a little bit of trouble with her S's, and only gets them right about 50% of the time, but she does amazingly for a 4 year old I think! :) ...and she CAN write her name!)

Then the best part...assembling all of that Candy into bags!!

TA-DA!!

The letter F and Fire Safety

A lot of the time I start out by reviewing past letters. We have also been working a lot on recognizing upper and lower case letters. Here I wrote the letter on the board, and had them draw lines to the correct corresponding letter.

I introduced the letter F. We learned what it looked like, and what sound it makes. We also talked about different words that start with the letter F.

This is a cute craft that I found HERE. We also tried some "Letting the kids do their own cutting." This is an area in which I need work! :) It's scary when you have girls with beautiful red hair to let them play with scissors.

We watched this video as a family, and then talked a lot about fire safety. I lost my camera for a few days and so I didn't get pictures of this, but we basically did all of the things that they talked about in the video, where to do, what to do, how to stop drop and roll, not to hide from the firemen, etc. The girls really thought this was fun.

Letter Factory DVD

*Click the picture to go to the link*

My kids have been watching this DVD for about a week now and they love it! It's an educational video that teaches the alphabet and the sounds they make. In the week that my kids have been watching it I have noticed that they know a lot more letters than I have taught them! They also want to tell me the sound everything around the house makes! It's been really fun! I highly recommend it!

Link

To your right I added a link to a really great site that lets you print off preschool and kindergarten worksheets for free. They have lots of topics! It's under "My Blog List." I will be using several of these in the near future! :) Happy Learning!

Slap Jack

We played this game, and I just had to share. I had some alphabet card print offs, that had a few extra J's with them. We just played Slap Jack, where you turn the cards over one at a time, and try to slap the J's first. Whoever slaps the J first gets to keep the J, and whoever has the most in the end wins. My kids were having SO much fun with it. They were laughing their heads off! And I liked it because we could play it with any letter we were learning...just make extra copies of that one letter. :)
Happy Slapping!

E is for Elephant

We started out this day by playing Alphabet Bingo. I loved this board because it let you put your own letters on it, and that way I could put just the ones we have learned.
Sorry that I don't have a link. I googled "Alphabet Bingo" images, and this was there. I had to copy and paste it into a folder. When I went to the site I couldn't find it. Sorry.

We wrote the letter E

I cut up a picture of an elephant for a puzzle, and this is how they had to figure out what we were learning about next.

Then we did a "Board Discussion" about elephants.

And the messiest part of the day...finger painting elephants. The Body of the elephant is a hand print, and then you finger paint on the rest. They LOVED it! As they were painting my oldest said "This is the best day!"

Dirty hands!

Viola!

Job Chart

This isn't really for preschool, but I thought I would share it on here. I wanted to make a job chart for my kids. It turned out to be a lot more work that I thought it would be, but it was worth it. I love how it turned out!

So each girl has their own section, and as they do the items on the chart, they can turn them over. This is also great because as time goes on, I can change the jobs...hopefully someday it will say "Do the dishes!" :)

And there is also a reward system. If they do everything on the chart that day, they will get one "Mommy Dollar." After they have X amount of Mommy Dollars, they get a prize....which I haven't figured out yet. I'm thinking they could pick a toy from a prize jar...bouncy balls, and yoyo's and things like that.
You can download your own personalized money HERE.