Little Bug started F week with paint and markers – her favorites! She painted the capital F and drew with markers on the lower case f. (She wanted me to help her write E’s and N’s with the markers. I am happy to see her taking some interest in writing!)

We made a Flamingo with Little Bug’s handprint and pink paint!

We played the game Let’s Go Fishin’!!

As I’ve said before, I keep these “learning activities” simple – very simple. My goal is to give Little Bug exposure to the letters and the sounds they make before she goes to pre-k in the Fall (if she learns them all in the process, great!) and to give her a structured learning time so I can work her brain!

I found a super resource this week from the blog Confessions of a Homeschool Mom. She has a Letter of the Week Preschool Curriculum available for download for only $10! There are activities for every single letter of the alphabet.

Here was our first activity from there!

Farm Animals Matching

She was making matches but then saw the hen and rooster and put them together because she knew they were the same (in a different way). I thought that was pretty smart thinking.

I decided to take it a step further and do a little Memory Game with her. I let her pick three matches, shuffled them and then taught her to play Memory. She had fun with that. I tried four matches after that and I think we will stick with three for now.

Little Bug went Alphabet Fishing! This activity did take a lot of prep (printing, cutting, gluing on the letters to the fish – which Grandma did!), but Little Bug is really into fishing right now and this is a great way for me to know which letters Little Bug knows!

She “fishes” and pulls out a fish that has a letter on it.

I love how Sweet Pea is peeking from behind me to see!

Then, Little Bug says what letter is on her fish.

Sweet Pea caught a fish that had the letter H!

Little Bug made a Fingerprint Fish. She used the tip of her finger to paint the fish some scales.

- Elaine