We're off to a crawl on the home lessons, but I finally mustered up the energy to pull together a couple learning activities for the boys.
Again, we'll go through the alphabet, since we didn't start on "A" last time around and because Cid still needs some work on his letters. Rowan could also use some help with lower case letters, though I'm hoping to get him into more reading and math this time around.
First, we started with a lower case alphabet tracing page.
I pulled this one off the web for free:
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| Lower Case Alphabet Printable |
The boys don't care for these letter tracing activities too much. I put them out there anyway. But to make it a bit more exciting for them, I gave them cardboard alphabet stickers to stick on when they were done tracing. (if you don't have alphabet stickers, maybe cut out letters from a magazine).
My intention was to have them find all the letters of the alphabet in the stickers and stick them on, but they decided to do their names instead. Rowan tried to spell out some other things with the stickers and Cid just went crazy with them. I'm still counting it as a win!
We also did a Letter A activity, which I've attached a template for below.
For this activity, all you really need is the printouts below, pen(s), scissors, and glue. The boys traced the capital "A" and connected the dots for a lower case "a". Then they pasted the solid letter cutouts on their traced letters. They liked this one. In hindsight, I should have put the dot-to-dot numbers CCW from #1 so that they mimicked the writing motion of the lower case letter "a". Otherwise, another win!
Note: for the solid letters, I cut them from colored construction paper, but I've attached a page that can either be printed and cut to use as is, or can be printed and used as a template to cut out construction paper letters. If you don't want to waste printer ink (it's pricey!), just print an extra trace page and use that as the template for the solid letter cutouts.
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| Solid Letters A for cutting out Printable |
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| Letter A Trace and Dot-to-Dot Printable |
Enjoy!
~Sarah
