Category Archives: God’s Little Explorers/PreK/2014-2015

PreK with Li’l Bit {Week 7}

The week before we left for our beach trip, Li’l Bit spent a week focusing on the Letter I. The week was filled with learning more about insects including ladybugs and bees, which was perfect as we studied pollination with big brother and big sister.

Who knew painting rocks into ladybugs and bees would be so FUN?! After going on a nature hike to find just the perfect smooth stones, Li’l Bit took her time putting on several coats of paint and adding just the right details.

Li’l Bit also enjoyed making her “Ladybug Numbers” while her big sis and big bro made skip counting ladybug numbers. Most often if it involves numbers, I can individualize for each of my younger students, two of whom are in 3rd grade and of course Li’l Bit, who is 4 and in PreK.

She first outlined her numbers with a red marker, next she colored the inside with a red crayon, she added black spots that equaled the number, and finally she exercised those finger muscles as she cut out each number! I put them all on a clip ring for one-to-one activities! She was very proud of doing this one all by herself! Continue reading →

PreK with Li’l Bit {Week 6}

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Pre-Kindergarten with Li’l Bit is going well, especially when I think back to this time last year. She still doesn’t relish a choice of things to do. She’d rather have a blank canvas, whether it be beans and things with which to pour, put, place, ponder or a piece of paper and dabs of paint with brushes, marbles, q-tips, or her fingers to make a masterpiece!

This last week, we concentrated on the Letter C and though we spent time on some indoor activities, in all honesty we spent a lot of time OUTSIDE just enjoying the beauty that this Fall is becoming!

Here’s a brief look back at our week:

While working on multiplication flash cards with my 3rd graders, I encouraged Li’l Bit to take the scraps of paper (NEVER throw away those laminated scraps!) and make a collage in her little book. She had so much fun making a colorful sunflower and cutting grass from the green strip of paper! Continue reading →

PreK with Li’l Bit {Week 5}

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Last week we studied the Letter T in PreK with Li’l Bit. It was kind of a short week in that we had to cut out early on Tuesday for an afternoon orthodontist appointment in our old town (45 minutes away), early on Wednesday for an afternoon therapy appointment an hour away (normally it is a different town half an hour away), and then we also had the plumbers here with the septic issues, painters here all week working outside and … it was just a crazy week of having to go here and there and everywhere.

Top to Bottom: PaTTern Blocks Memory Match, “Taking a Trip” made a suitcase and cut out Things to Take; Tracing T words like Tree and carroT and putting on the T page in our alphabet book; cutting out Traced lines; one-to-one counTing with doTs

Running from appointment to appointment with our three younger children (and sometimes the big ones) in tow is just life sometimes with multiple children with multiple needs and an old home that sometimes has old-house issues. Alas, we still managed to have lots of learning with the Letter T in the spotlight. For our Bible story, we read about Abraham and Lot and how they traveled with tents and how Abraham let Lot choose which land in which he wanted to settle.

Top to Botton: Highlight of the week–finding a Tree Frog in the yard; studying letters and words with our naTure letter cards; Telling a story in a book made with big bro and big sis; played Chutes and Ladders and looked for the letter T everywhere; narrated stories for Tiger and Lion puppets made last week; had stories and one day of school in a “tent” built over her rug; and tried to Train our hens to lay some more eggs!!!

Li’l Bit can tell me what sound EVERY SINGLE LETTER makes, which thrills my heart. She is already figuring out words by looking at the beginning and ending letters, and she is reading many CVC words. Truth be told, if I pushed at all I think she’d be reading well within 6 months. I’m just not interested in pushing, but I am putting a pallet of choices in front of her! I plan to share more about what we’re doing with pre-reading in another post.

This week, we’re exploring the Letter C and learning about colors and Joseph’s Coat of Many Colors. I will post more about that this weekend hopefully. If you are looking for more Letter/Alphabet activities, please follow my Pinterest board: A is for Apple (and other ABC Ideas).

PreK with Li’l Bit {Week 4}

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After a short week during Labor Day Week, we jumped back into our God’s Little Explorers preschool learning about the Letter Z using the Bible story of Noah and his ark full of animals, many of which are also found at zoos today.

Li’l Bit’s favorite activity of the whole week was making her very own salt try for practicing writing and exercising those little finger muscles with a tactile activity! First, she painted a rainbow on a piece of cardboard. I didn’t tell her what order to put the colors, so I was impressed that she followed the ROYGBIV color order! Of course, we reviewed color names. She knows them all except she gets pink and purple mixed up sometimes. Continue reading →

PreK with Li’l Bit {Week 3}

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I’m a little behind in posting but I want to document this year of PreK with Li’l Bit so I am forging ahead. This post will be shorter because of the aforementioned scheduling issues and because I don’t have as many photos of our week 3 adventures.

We were studying Letter A during this week, and Li’l Bit was thrilled to start our Monday off with apple stamping!

Since her brother and sister are studying Botany this year, we all studied the inside of the apple and counted the seeds inside as well!

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