Honey Pot is 3.5 years old
Leap Frog Fridge Phonics
To introduce the letter of the week, we listened to Scout's S song!
S is for: Salt Tray
I have been seeing versions of this all over Pinterest. What a perfect unit to begin one! I used the Melissa and Doug box that Little M&M's animal magnets came in. (Never throw their wooden boxes away!) We started with some S shapes: the letter S, swirls and squares. Honey Pot just LOVED this sort of pre-writing practice. She did such a wonderful job, and it was a great sensory experience as well. We will be pulling this back out frequently during quiet-times, to practice other letters and shapes!
She decided to do some free drawing. Turns out this was a submarine. LoL. Still fits the S theme!
S is for: Sticker Storytelling
Yes. A thousand times, yes. Honey Pot is a natural storyteller. Oftentimes at dinner she will tell us stories--wild stories about ghosts, wolves, Mickey Mouse, Peter Pan, lava or monsters. I discovered this idea from The Imagination Tree, and thought it would be a nice prompt for her to explore this interest in storytelling. I pulled out both Honey Pot's sticker books, as well as my childhood ones. Then I gave her a piece of scrap paper. And I let her choose a few stickers for each story. I asked her to tell a story that included each of the items. I started her off with "Once upon a time," and let her take it from there. The following is what she came up with.
Sometimes I would try to help her become more descriptive. So I may have encouraged her to say "a pink bird" instead of simply "a bird." And we always finished with, "The end." She had such fun with this activity, and I think we'll be doing it again!
Worksheet - Connect the Dots
This comes from Education. She likes connect the dot pages, and this one helped her discover more words that start with S.
Worksheet - I Spy an S
This also comes from Education. This was a new one for her, and she enjoyed it! I would ask her what she saw in the picture, and what letter she thought it started with, based on the beginning sounds. She found other words, such as tree and bird, which she knew didn't start with S. And she only circled the things that did. I had to help her with the sunflowers though...as she only knew them as flowers.
Worksheet - S Maze
This comes from Twinkl. She used her dot marker to follow all the S's to the end.
S Pattern Block Puzzle
We like these printables from Confessions of a Homeschooler. Honey Pot had no trouble with this!
S is for: Snowflakes
Honey Pot also completed an S craft that used some of our old snowflake confetti. It introduced another word that starts with S, further familiarized her with the shape of the letter, and was nice fine motor practice as well. She likes having a fun project to show Daddy when he gets home too!
Playdough Fun with S Shapes
We love pulling out the playdough for almost any unit. This one was particularly fun, as we focused mainly on rolling and playing with snakes! We slithered them around the table, had our snakes talk to one another and eat food. Sometimes their heads detached as they became too thin, and she thought it was hysterical.
Honey Pot added some eyes and a noodle mouth.
Here's one that has a button nose!
She practiced making really looooong snakes.
She used a craft stick to make a mouth indentation!
And she maneuvered her snake into an S shape.
And all on her own she started to roll it up. S is for snail too, by the way, Honey Pot!
Here are some other S shapes we made, most with cookie cutters: snowman, the letter S, star, snake and stegosaurus.
An S Snake.
And S is for seahorse! Kind of. Sort of. Right?
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