Little Miss Muffet

We are deviating some from FIAR books this week due to Valentine's Day. We did some heart stuff and I knew we wouldn't have time to finish the book activities. I began teaching J a new nursery rhyme each week. I usually try to have an art project, maybe some Science, writing, etc... This week, our rhyme is Little Miss Muffet. This is what we have done so far.

Working with our wooden numbers, I called a number to J and she created the number with them. I am really trying to encourage number recognition up to 100. We will be working on this until the end of the school year.

She colored her rhyme sheet so we could hang it up on our wall and review weekly each nursery rhyme we have learned. I love watching her color, she has really taken off, trying to stay in the lines.

We read Little Miss Muffet and circled/counted all of the f's in the rhyme.

J made a spider like in the rhyme. She chose to make it colorful. Then she cut it out.

She is doing well cutting thing out. She cut everyone of the legs of the spider herself. I was impressed.

We then used the spider to act out the rhyme. We found a tuffet (pillow), curds and whey, and the spider sat beside her.

She has several words this week. Here she is decorating the word he for our wall. I gave her stickers this time and she seemed to enjoy that.

J is still practicing her other words as well. She working with the word- the. Her work isn't just with sight words. We are also learning to read. She is learning to put letter sounds together to make words. We work our reading lessons together so there is no time to take pictures. I am not just focusing on sight words. We are working on all aspects of learning how to read. I am not pushing her though. I am following her lead. If she is having trouble, I back off and we review the previous lessons until she can get it. I want her to enjoy the process of reading and not have it become a chore. Hope your week isn't full of spiders - haha.