Reading
Bear was bored of the cvc words, so I gave her slightly harder words to work on. She is blending much better and only needs my help (she sounds out fine but then needs to hear me say the sounds together) on rare occasions. She still isn't showing much interest in reading a book aloud, but loves these matching games. These cards are from My Montessori Journey.
We pulled out the Poor Man's Spinny Speller and here she is telling you she just made the word "hat."
Pre-Writing
Bear has been writing words using her foam letters and this makeshift moveable alphabet - they are cardstock letters I found on clearance in January at Target.
Fine Motor Skills
I saved an empty Children's Tylenol bottle and filled it with blue water. I drew dots on wax paper and Bear has to drop one drop per dot. It's a very challenging task that she does well with. It requires a lot of concentration. We've done this variation before.
Tweezing pompoms with chopsticks.
Using the Montessori geometric cabinet as stencils. She went through all 6 drawers this day and drew each shape. That's almost 36 shapes!
Math
Matching geometric solids to their face cards.
Matching number tiles to the number rods.
Making patterns.
Telling time. She matched the hands to the clocks on the sheet.
Art
Making birthday cards.
Fly swatter painting (I'll be posting about this separately). We also did splatter painting, which will also be a separate post.
Culture (Geography, Science and History)
Playing with our continents cube.
Revisiting our tree and adding leaves to it.
To see what others are doing in preschool see Homeschool Creations.
Nice activities :-)
ReplyDeleteYou are putting everyone to shame with this post!lol
ReplyDelete@ Mommy Teacher 123 - Totally not my intentions! Most of these activities aren't repeated throughout the week. She'll do them once, then we move on. Sometimes she only works all of five minutes on something then is done. We get interrupted by the baby a lot. It always looks like we do more than we actually did because of the photos. If you're referring to the types of scholastic things Bear can do for her age, well I realize that Bear can do things that a lot of almost 3 year olds can't, but there are things she can't do too well - like be at ease with new situations, pedal a trike, jump into the water at the pool just to name a few.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your response to MommyTeacher123 I think we all need to remember those things!
ReplyDeleteThese are some wonderful activities! I think i will try some of them this week.
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(hugs)
Jody
I know fully well what you mean about 5 minutes activities. Bear and Anna sound alike in many ways - advanced academically, not so much in gross motor skills. Bear does have wonderful fine motor skills though - I doubt that Anna would be interested in the dropper activity, but if she has to stay home from her summer camp today, I might try it out.
ReplyDeleteYou're doing great things with your child. The eye dropper activity will help with fine motor skills. I've heard painting and coloring on an upright surface, like a paper taped to a wall or an easel, builds the muscles needed for writing.
ReplyDeleteHere's a post from my blog to help with blending sounds in words. http://beginningreadinghelp.blogspot.com/2010/03/use-magnetic-letters-to-teach-blending.html
how old is your daughter?
ReplyDelete@Mommy Jess - she turns 3 August 11th.
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