Home Preschool: The letter K

 

Day One:

 

This week, we moved on to the Letter K. I think we all know by now what's up first- handwriting practice. These days, I'm using a mix of homemade handwriting templates and some printables I've found online. A site that I'm using fairly often right now is: www.first-school.ws

 

 

I'll admit that our next activity really didn't have anything to do with the Letter K. I really wanted to give the boys some practice with shape, number, and color identification-- combined. I also wanted to get them up and moving. So, I made several shapes of various colors, and on the shapes, I printed a random number. Then, I had the boys walk (which, of course, turned into running- hence, the blurriness of the pictures) around the circle to different kids' songs (think Itsy Bitsy Spider and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star). When the music stopped, the boys had to freeze on whatever shape they were closes to and identify the shape, the shape's color, and the number on the shape.

Our craft of the day was a king made of the letter K with a nice, bedazzled crown. Pretty cute, I thought.

 

 

The finished product! Camden's is up top; Will's is down below.

We read all about Mittens the Kitten this week. The boys really enjoyed this little kitten's misadventures.

 

 

Day Two:

 

 

 

Instead of traditional handwriting practice, we decided to mix things up today by breaking out the Do-A-Dot markers.

 

Next up, we kept the Do-A-Dot markers out and I gave the boys these homemade little printables. I asked them to count how many K objects were on each card, and then use their Do-A-Dot markers to stamp the appropriate number on the bottom of the card.

 

Since they were enjoying using the Do-A-Dot markers so much, I let them keep them out for one more activity: a K hunt. They had to look through a homemade card with dozens of letters on it to identify the "sneaky" K's that were hiding among the bunch. 

Our craft was a kite. I told the boys that they were going to "sew" their kites together by stringing the ribbon through holes I had punched into both kites. A great fine motor exercise in theory, right? In reality, this turned out to be much more a "mom craft", meaning a great deal of assistance was needed. Guess they're not quite ready to sew.

 

Still a cute craft though!

And we finished up by reading about a couple more of Mittens the Kitten's adventures.