Letter Learning

The Figlet recently decided that her big sister's 

homework looked like fun. 

I'm not sure why, but who am I to argue? 

Time to find some homework for her to do!

Of course I can't just print things... It is in my Art Mama nature to 

MAKE THINGS, 

so in addition to seeking out worksheets, I made a letter game.

Using a 1" hole punch I made 26 disks out of card stock paper. I then wrote all the letters on them, capital on one side and lowercase on the other. I used the negatives (aka paper full of holes) to trace out 26 spaces on a piece of paper. We have a printer that makes copies so I made a few then penned in different objectives such as missing letters, make them all upper/lower case, etc. The result is a game that seems like it can grow with her for a while. 

Now I just need to figure out how to help her 

keep believing that homework is fun!

W is for...

 

Watercolor Ws

 

 

We have started doing letter days a few times a week. We aren't doing them in any particular order. Instead I ask Figlet what letter she wants to do and we talk about possible things that we could do with that letter the night before. The short planning time can be a challenge, but it keeps the lesson grounded in real life examples in our everyday. Here are a few pics from our W day.

 

 

 

 

WAFFLES!!!

 

 

A White Whale on the Wall

 

Watering the plants

 

 

And herself

 

Washing toys in the Watertable

We also took a walk, danced to the Wiggle Song (Yo Gabba Gabba's Hold Still), waved to our neighbor, and read Where's Walrus by Stephan Savage.

It was a Wet, Warm & Wonderful  W day!