Letter of the week --Dd

This week, I started using the Progressive Phonic material to teach Evan more in phonic. The first book is about the dog and it happens that this week I am going to introduce him the letter Dd.

We check out several books from the library all about dogs. These are just a few we read.


These are some of the worksheets Evan being working on. He learned about the square shape.
As usual, he did some tracing, connect the dots and making the Ds words book.


Walking the dog trail. I wrote the dog and dod words on several papers and lay down on the floor. Evan has to follow the trail with the dog word on it. This help him to memorize the dog word.




These are some of the bottle caps that I collected for math purposes. I put all the caps on the floor and let the boys sort them out according to the colors and sizes.
We played estimation games and let the boys guess how many of the bottle caps on the floor and see who got the close guess.



They sorted the bottle caps by color and compared which one is the most. Evan will tell me which one is more and which one is less.

Letter of the week --Cc

These are the books from our own bookshelf. When I read the books, I asked Evan to show me the what words start with Cc.


I wrote several Cat words on a piece of paper mixing with other words. Evan can recognize the CAT and circles them all right.

He is tracing a cat.
Playing tangram. This is a good game to reinforce the shapes and making nice pictures.

Letter of the week --Bb

This week is Bb week. I found a lot of worksheet and art about Bear which is a familiar to most of the kids. Library is my best place to check out all the books about Bears. There are tons of books about bears.
Below are the books we read about bear for this week.
Making the bear

The big brother wanted to do one bear too.






Crazy about Picachu

Ethan checked out a Pokemom drawing book from library. He traced the pictures and colored it. They watched the movie about Pokemom and played by immitating different Pokemom action.


Evan is learning how to write. He had to write his name everyday. Most of the time, I have to hold his hand and help him to write. He can write the first two letters of his name well, the E and v but not the a and n.

These are the worksheets I found online for him to do including connect the dots, coloring sheet, handwriting pratice and color by letter.

Letter of the Week ---Aa

This week is another new week for the fall season. I start all over again to review the letters with Evan. Since Ethan is at home now, he learns and does the activities with Evan.

Letter of the week: Aa
Object: Apple and ant
Number: 1
Shape: Circle

I read the stories about apple and also the Johnny Appleseed story. I bought different kinds of apple with different sizes. Evan has to group them according to the sizes, big or small.


Grouping the apples according to the sizes.


I drew some apple shapes and cut them out. Evan has to trace the numbers on the apples and arrange them in order.


Another way to learn the letter is asking the boys to make a letter A out of the blocks.

Ant hunting:
Ant is the easiest insect to be found around the condo area. The boys looked for the ants at the bush and finally got some. We put some food on a tray and to check which food the ants like the most.

On the way to find the ants.


They are observing the ants moving around.


I cut two apples in two different ways. One is from top to bottom and one is from the middle. I let the kids compared them and tell me what is the differences. The apple on the left side is bilateral symmetry and the one at the right side is radial symmetry.
They then put the paint on the apple and made the apple prints on the papers.




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Ethan is teaching Evan how to arrange the block according to their sizes. From one block up to ten block high. I do not buy a lot of Mathematic manipulatives from the store because I know the kids can learn about math from everything that surround them anywhere anyplace.
I used the UNO cards from 1 to 9 and the blocks for the math game. Evan has to match the number of the blocks on the according UNO number card.

I cut the jelly sandwiched into circle shape. This is another way to introduce shape to the kids.