Wes and I are 9 letters and 1 reading day into our Preschool/Kindergarten, homemade curriculum and we've been having a lot of fun working our way through the alphabet. We're not going through them alphabetically, but in a seemingly random order, equipping his reading ability, and consequently his feelings of success, as quickly as possible. We're following the lessons in Mc'Guffey's 1st Eclectic Primer (recommended from the Robinson Reading List). For each lesson there's a list of letters that need to be known in order to read the words of that particular lesson. We've been working through one letter per day with one day at the end to pull all the sounds together and do some definite reading. I taught a few kindergartners to read as part of my high school curriculum as a homeschooler myself, child development class I think, and I had forgotten how much I love the light and excitement on their little faces when they realize that they're actually doing the reading themselves. It's one of the best moments of a homeschooling parents job, for sure.
I use this chart to make sure I don't forget about any of the letters that make more than one sound.
We begin with the letter A.
#1 - Coloring in the letter of the day. I use these templates.
#2- A letter maze for upper and lower case recognition practice.
#3 - Tracing practice. I create one line with 5 capital letters and another line with 5 lower case letters from here. The bottom, empty portion of this page is used for our letter activity of the day.
(I print the letter maze and tracing activity on opposite sides of the same page to save a bit of paper.)
#4- A letter related activity or two. I try and do a paper/crafty activity as well as something for motor skills. For the letter A we did apple prints.
#5- ABC journal. I look through our stack of magazines and pull out pages with letter of the day words and pictures on them. He cuts them out and glues them in his journal.
He's such a perfectionist though and doesn't like this activity very well cause he can't "cut things out perfect", but scissor work is great for fine motor hand skills used for writing, so this activity remains.
#6 - ABC animal tracks.
Probably his most favorite, unless of course there's a food related activity which obviously trumps anything and everything else.
For A he learned about Armadillo.
#4- A letter related activity or two. I try and do a paper/crafty activity as well as something for motor skills. For the letter A we did apple prints.
#5- ABC journal. I look through our stack of magazines and pull out pages with letter of the day words and pictures on them. He cuts them out and glues them in his journal.
He's such a perfectionist though and doesn't like this activity very well cause he can't "cut things out perfect", but scissor work is great for fine motor hand skills used for writing, so this activity remains.
#6 - ABC animal tracks.
Probably his most favorite, unless of course there's a food related activity which obviously trumps anything and everything else.
For A he learned about Armadillo.
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