Cystic Fibrosis Awareness :: Olivia's Peanut Patrol 2015

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Music Used: Breathe - Matt Scales Breathe Remix - The Breathe Project
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Letter M - Day Eight

Tonight we had fun with Q-tip painting.

Letter M - Day Seven

Tonight started off with pre-writing again.

Next we did a size sheet - small, medium, and large (big).

Lastly, we had fun with practicing cutting skills. Just a week ago, she wasn't able to really cut without lots of help. Tonight she did this all by herself. She wasn't sticking to the cutting lines, but she was having so much fun and doing so good with the scissors that I just let her cut away. There was no bedtime story tonight as she fell asleep drinking her last sippy cup of Pediasure.

Letter M - Day Six

First up tonight was a pre-writing sheet.

Then we did a small, medium, and large (big) coloring sheet.

We finally have some Do-a-Dot markers. So she dotted the Mm's.

Then she matched up some "monsters."

Next up was some listening skills. Each shape was colored according to the directions.

Bedtime stories tonight included ...

Letter M - Day Five

We started our night by going to ClickNRead and doing Lesson One again. This lesson covers the A and M sounds. She hasn't gotten the concept of beginning word sounds versus ending words sounds. She enjoyed doing lesson one enough that she wanted to go on to Lesson Two which included A, M, and S. This lesson will need several more tries. 

After lesson two, we counted the "yummy muffins on the plate."

Our bedtime stories were ...

Letter M - Day Four

We started the night with pre-writing skills. 

Then she did some puzzles.

Next was some gluing. First we glued in pictures to represent the "Hey Diddle Diddle" poem. Then we practiced location words (beside, on, under, etc.) with a "The Mitten" theme.

Next we read some books from our M theme.

Our bedtime stories for the night ...

Letter M - Day Three

Olivia wanted to start the day off by doing the "balls". So we started the day off gluing pom-poms into dot sheets.

Next we sorted shapes.

Lastly we did some puzzles. 

Letter M - Day Two

Today started off with another session of pre-writing.

Then we colored more M's by size.

Next was a sheet for tracing "Mickey and Minnie". She only traced the Letter M's. Then decided she wanted to color it with the pencil instead of crayons.

She then wanted to read some books. 

Lastly she colored a book with much more succes than we had with "Mickey and Minnie". 

 

We have also been reading bedtime stories related to the Letter M. The two previous nights books and tonight's books.

Letter M - Day One

After Letter A, we took a couple of days off then started the Letter M. 

First up was some pre-writing sheets.

Next was a dot sheet. We didn't have any dot markers so we used circle stickers.

We then used a stamper marker with the Letter M on it. It was a lot smaller than I expected and as you can see she quickly got bored with it. 

Next she colored the Letter M by size - small, medium, and big.

Letter M matching was next u the next sheet she did.

Lastly, she marked the Letter M's by using the stamp marker.

Letter A - Day Nine

I'm pretty sure today is our last day doing letter A. 

We started with poking holes to "trace" the letter Aa. I used a marker to write Aa on a blank postcard (1/4 of card stock). I have some extra large and giant pushpins. We used the extra large ones. I had her put the card over her beanbag chair to make it easier to push the pins through without poking herself. A carpeted surface would work also. It makes an interesting effect when holding the paper up to the light. This could also be done on tin pie pans (aluminum pans).

Next we used play-doh to make the letter Aa and to "follow" the Aa maze.

Lastly we decorated her lapbook with "A" pictures. These were the pictures she had used her cutting skills in earlier in the week so as to not waste all of them.

Letter A - Day 8

Day eight was website/video day.

We started at Starfall and did the Letter A and vowel a games. Then we went to Easy Peasy Homeschool for the April the Alligator story. Then off to YouTube to watch some "A" videos.

Letter A - Day Seven

Today we used the computer and worked on the ABCMouse website. I had organized all the Letter A activities that I could find into a "lesson" for her. She has pretty good mouse control so I let her pick which activities from the list that she wanted to do. 

She did ---

Puzzles

Mazes, bubbles

Matching, songs, picking the right one, and more.

While I was cleaning and putting up her nebulizer parts, I gave her 10 minutes or so of free time to do whichever ABCMouse activities that she wanted to do.

Letter A - Day Six

So we once again started off with pre-writing skills. I used one of the more progressive sheets. She wasn't thrilled with doing it since it wasn't easy. I must remember to keep the "harder" ones to a minimum for a while longer. I don't want to completely to stop using them, because as she gets better at the tasks they will become easier. 

We then did one of the taller cutting skills worksheets. Because the lines were curved on it, she wasn't thrilled with it either and only did 2 of the 3 lines. I think with these I need to stick with straight lines for now as she has trouble doing the longer/taller cuts as it is.

Next we played the "how many seeds does the apple have" game that I had attached to her lapbook. We took turns drawing "cards" and putting "seeds" on the apple (numbers were from 1-10).

Next up was Apple patterns. She didn't quite understand what we were doing with the first pattern. She started getting the idea with the second pattern, but was done with it and didn't want to do anymore. (There were 10 different pattern sheets.)

To end the night, we looked through the A-word cards, read our "A" books, and sang the "at" song. We have sang the "at" song several different times during the week. She pretty much has the song memorized. She just doesn't realize that it actually spells a word. I'm hoping exposure will eventually help it to sink in.

I've also have been trying to incorporate the letter theme into our bedtime story readings. So far we have read 6 of the 8 books below and will read the other 2 soon. I'm using books that we already have in our "library" instead of buying new books or hunting down books in the county library. 

Note: I will be adding links to sites from which I pulled all the different things at a later time.

Letter A - Day Five

Once again, we started off with pre-writing skills. These sheets were a little tougher for her. They weren't straight lines. She wanted to rush through them so she didn't take the time to learn to stop and change directions with the pencil.

Next we did a "is it different" sheet.

Then we did some more cutting skills strips with apples on them She also did full sheet Alice cutting sheet. After she got through cutting the Alice one, she told me it looked like a curtain. LOL.

Sorting was next on the agenda. She used her lapbook to separate upper-case "A"  and lower-case "a"s into the correct buckets. She also placed apples on the correct letters on the tree in her lapbook.

Lastly, we did a variety of jigsaw puzzles with an A-word theme.

Note: I will be adding links to sites from which I pulled all the different things at a later time.