The first day of fall was this week, so our theme was autumn and leaves! We started each day by talking about the calendar and the weather. Then we had a few learning activities each day.
Theme: Autumn and Leaves
Books
Counting Mats
I found these counting mats for FREE from Fun Learning for Kids. I printed out a few numbers I know she's confident in recognizing, below ten, and then a couple above ten too so she could work on learning them.
Learning Lowercase a
A couple weeks ago we finished learning our uppercase letters. I thought it was time to slowly start introducing lowercase letters. So first up, a letter A dot marker sheet, FREE from Easy Peasy Learners.
Then we pulled out our tabletop easel and magnetic letters to practice finding A's.
Then we did a little matching activity, throwing in the lowercase a among some uppercase letters for now.
Learning Notebook
She loves when we use her notebook. For today I just offered her a leaf stamp that I have, and she added leaves to the tree.
Watercolors + Dropper
I used some cotton rounds as leaves for this activity. Sweet E needed to add fall colors to the leaves using a dropper.
She loved this!
It came out beautiful!
Introducing Lowercase b
This time we used our dot marker page with playdoh. I rolled fall-colored playdoh into balls, and she needed to flatten them onto the circles.
Then we did a B search on our easel.
And I came up with this idea to include shapes in our week. She had to refer to a sort of "key" to see where to place each letter.
Making Patterns
First AB AB:
ABC ABC:
ABB ABB:
And AABB AABB:
Q-Tip Painting
A little fine motor activity, FREE from 1+1+1=1.
Introducing Lowercase c
Same printables, this time with magnetic counters. I'm trying to keep the activities varied!
She LOVED this one, because the magnetic wand is such fun to use when cleaning them up.
Matching uppercase to lowercase ABC.
Sticker Sorting
Sweet E needed to sort the lowercase abc stickers to the uppercase ABC trees.
Graphing Fall Leaves
This FREE printable comes from Life Over Cs. I made a die for Sweet E to roll, and she needed to graph how many times she rolled each color, with pom poms, until one reached the end.
This was a super fun game, wondering which color would win!
Felt Board
I brought out our old felt board and fall tree for Sweet E to play with. After letting her play freely with it, I created a quick listening game.
I'd ask her if she could put on "2 yellow and 5 orange leaves." Then I'd briefly distract her by making Ariel and Flounder talk, and see if she remembered what I asked her to do.
Here is when I asked her for 3 red and 4 yellow leaves.
Baking Leaf Cookies
We made some maple cinnamon cookies this week too. How wonderful they smelled! In addition to helping to mix up the batter, Sweet E helped with all of the rolling...
and cutting out leaves...
I made little veins on them with a toothpick before baking, and we sprinkled some gold glitter sprinkles on them too. They looked great!
And they were SO delicious! Might be one of Sweet E's favorite cookies.
