Letter C Interactive Notebook - free printable

Even with a mini vacation and internet problems, I was able to finish my Letter C Interactive Notebook. Yay! Here are some of the pages....

There is a letter C picture puzzle. I usually make this magnetic and use a cookie sheet to make the puzzle easier to use. But it can be adapted to the Interactive Notebook.

Kaleb started with the C flap books. He really likes cutting out the pictures and gluing them to his notebook. (Kaleb dressed himself today, hence the stripes and the plaid.)

I also added a capital and lower case letter match. Match the letters on the wheels of the car. You could add velcro to the wheels so they stick. The wheels will fit into the envelope.

He liked the look of this game - a race car. Since we just started the alphabet, I only added three letters in our book but you can add more by cutting out black circles for the tires.

Match the cupcakes - I made an alphabet picture match game. The cupcakes are to be glued to the page and the child matches the cupcake tops to the correct cupcake. There is more than one picture for each letter for added practice.

This is one of my favorite pictures of the week. We were working with the cupcake game, talking about the pictures and which letters they began with when he exclaimed that his shirt had a big A and a little a on it. He proceeded to point them out. This momma is proud - maybe he is actually learning something :)

Cookie number match game - we are still working on number recognition. The child will match the correct cookie (chocolate chips) to the correct number. You could also use with pom poms. Have the child place the pom poms on the number cookie while practicing counting.

Kaleb matched the cookies with the correct numbers. We counted cookies, "ate" the cookies, and talked about them beginning with the letter/sound of C.

I hope you enjoy the next installment of our Interactive Alphabet Book. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know.

Download Letter C Interactive Notebook HERE.

VWX Alphabet Review Pack - free printable

It is finally done - VWX Alphabet Review Pack. I have one more to go. Sorry it took so long. I was dragging my feet because I wanted to include sight word books and it took me some time to work through the pre-primer sight words to determine which ones to practice. But I finally finished and it is ready for download. Yay! Here are a few of the activities available....

I included play dough pages for each letter.

Several strip puzzles for alphabet review - I would print these, laminate, and add magnets to make them less stressful.

I also included mini sight word flip books. Cut the pages and staple together. Practice reading the sight words.

Several games are also in the pack.

Sight word puzzles - again, print, laminate, and add magnets.

Lots of alphabet and sight word review games.

Picture parking lots - label some cars with the letters of the alphabet and have child park the car in the correct spot. If you have any questions, please let me know. Enjoy the new printable pack.

Download VWX Alphabet Review Pack HERE.

B is for Buses, Boats, and Bikes

We are off learning about the letter B. Kaleb is still fired up about school, begging until sometime tears. I was planning on focusing on one vehicle for the letter B but decided to combine them all. If I need to go back and fill in a week or two, I will review with a focus on one instead of all three. Part of the week, we worked on the Interactive Notebook pages for B that I posted earlier.

I used the blue rice from last week to make our B sensory bin. I added letters and a mini puzzle. Kaleb was more interested in taking the boats and using them in the water.

I gave him a small bin filled with water and he played with the boats.

One of the fine motor activities I planned this week was using styrofoam and golf tees. I gave him a small plastic hammer which he used to hammer the golf tees into the styrofoam. If I had a bigger piece, I would have written a letter B on it and had him pound them into the letter.

Next, I opened a bag of marbles and had him place a marble on top of each golf tee. Not so easy if they weren't in the foam straight.

I found some flat bottomed glass beads to work with the next activity. I printed this free game from Sara Dean's TPT store (link below). I was thinking boats = fishing. We are working on counting and one-to-one correspondence. I gave Kaleb a fish and he fed it the correct number of glass marbles. I had him use a sand shovel for some motor skills. We counted the marbles and he fed the fish. He did not, however, like the fish who had a 0 on it. He felt that poor fish needed some "food" because he was sad.

Next activity, I programmed some bus cut-outs with numbers 1 thru 6. I gave Kaleb a die which he rolled. When he landed on a number, he added the correct number of blocks to the bus.

He traced the capital and lower case letters with a bus. He noticed that part of the letter B looked like the McDonald's sign. Oh, boy!

He painted a bus blue. This cute printout I found at  Action Alphabet (link below). After it dried, I put the wheels on with brads. He loved that his bus could roll.

He placed blocks on the letter B. This time, he grouped blue blocks together (all by himself).

I made a simple fishing pole using a magnet from our Science and a short wooden dowel. Kaleb went fishing by size using the free printable (link below) from Rita Mitchell.

He made a sailboat from a paper plate. To practice cutting, he cut all of the pieces of construction paper and then glued them on himself.

I also made a simple game using mini traffic cones that I found at the Dollar Store. I programmed each cone with capital and lower case letters A and B. I made rings from two pipe cleaners and had him try to throw the ring on the cone. When one landed on the cone, he would exclaim "Big A, Mommy!"

Growing Kinders (link below) had this cute five frame bus printable with children counters. I made it into a game by adding a number cube. We would toss the cube and add the amount of children to our bus. Then we would talk about who had the most children on the bus (greater and lesser numbers).

Lastly, we made boats from sponges and discovered that they would float. One of his favorite things this week was to play in the water with the plastic boats. He asked if he could keep them. We are moving to the letter C but we may return to the letter B since we had to condense our week into a couple of days due to an impromptu mini-vacation - a couple of days at a time-share that a friend of ours offered us :)

Links

Worldsapart - Wheel School Letter B Interactive Notebook Pages, free printable. Also, B is for Bike printable pack and lesson plans and B is for Bus lesson plans with free printable game.

Sara Dean - Fish Number Match free printable game.

Action Alphabet - Wheels on the Bus coloring page with moveable wheels.

Homemade Preschool - Wheels on the Bus free printable. This website is a new love of mine. They have super cute worksheets and such- all for free, no sign up required.

Rita Mitchell - Fishing by Size free printable game.

Growing Kinders - Kids on the Bus 5 frame free printable.

Pacheco's Bilingual Patch TPT store - free printable Row Your Boat Hat craft.

Letter B Interactive Notebook Pages - revisited

A couple of days ago, I posted my Letter B Interactive Notebook Pages for download but I hadn't had the chance to show them in action. We are using these pages each week to reinforce our letter learning. I am adding the pages to a spiral notebook for review. Because of this, most of my printable pages are printed on standard printer paper. You could print them on card stock for durability and laminate, if you desire.

Kaleb has truly enjoyed cutting items out lately which is great for fine motor skills. Here he is cutting the pictures for the B flap books. I trim the pictures from the larger page to make them more manageable. He then cut them out and glued them underneath the flaps.

We are still working on counting. The balloons were programmed with the numbers 1 thru 6. He added flat bottom glass marbles to each balloon while counting them.

He surprised me with this game - the capital and lower case letter sort game. He asked me if I made this game and I told him yes. He then got up and gave me a hug saying, "Thank you mommy, thank you."

Lastly, he made the letter b into a boat with the printable pages. I was more interested in giving him cutting and gluing practice than what the outcome was. He made it into a boat. In the background of this photo, you can see a Mickey binder that I found at a discount. He is thrilled with this binder and is constantly asking for item to place inside his "school book." So, some of the sheets that I do not add to the spiral notebook go into the binder as well as his bible coloring pages and other things he completes.

Hope you are finding these pages helpful. If you have any questions, let me know.

Sonlight B + C - Week 2

We have finished week 2 of Sonlight B + C combined. We had to cram the whole week into several days because we had a great surprise - an impromptu mini vacation at a time-share that one of our friends offered us. We couldn't pass up getting away for a few days so we condensed everything for the week into three days. So, sorry for the lack of pictures.

J is working through Learning Language Arts Through Literature. She has learned about nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and she has worked through some phonics and spelling. It really is a complete language arts curriculum. I like that it varies the activities and uses games to reinforce concepts.

We played long vowel/short vowel bingo this week.

This is the first year we have worked through a set spelling curriculum, All About Spelling. We already had the letter tiles from All About Reading. J is working through her first spelling list. I had her spell the words with the letter tiles and then spell them on paper to make sure that she had grasped the words. We will probably work through the first few lists quite quickly since she seems to already know the words.

J loves reading her bible story book and she is doing well at it. She reads a new story every day.

For bible, we learned about never giving up when we pray. We read the parable about the Judge and the Widow. The Widow did not give up with her pleas for justice and the judge finally relented.

We talked about judges and their jobs. We made a gavel snack from snicker minis and pretzel sticks.

"Order in the Court!" Not too much from this week but it ended well for us - a mini vacation - yay! See you next week.

Letter B Interactive Notebook Pages - free printable

My next set of Interactive Notebook pages is now available for download - Letter B. We are adding each set of pages to one of the inexpensive notebooks that I found during the school supply sales.  Because of the holiday, we didn't get to photograph all of the pages with Kaleb but I wanted to post this anyway, so you could download them.

The first pages for the letter B are mini flip books which Kaleb glued pictures that started with the letter B. I added a few more pictures than book so he could have a choice of which pictures to use. He then glued the extra pictures on the side of the page.

I let him cute and glue the pictures himself as we discussed them....b is for....

He is doing really well with those scissors. I did cut the pictures from the main page smaller so they sou;d be easier to handle. But he cut out all the pictures himself after that.

Next set of B pages, I created a beach ball letter sort. Each ball is programmed with capital and lower case letter b's. I cut the ends from an envelope and glued them to the front of the boats, creating a pocket to place the balls in. Kaleb will separate the beach balls into each pocket. I also glued a pocket to keep the pieces and two writing strips to practice writing the letter B. If you would like, you could laminate the writing strips so they can be used again.

We are still working on counting so I added balloons. Kaleb will add pom poms or flat glass beads to each circle while counting and working with his numbers.

I added the B puzzle which I made magnetic and used on a cookie sheet instead of adding it to the notebook. But it can be used in the notebook as well.

I also added a letter craft - turn the b into a boat. This can be a cut and paste activity printed on colored paper or paint and cut.  Hope you enjoy the B interactive notebook pages. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Download Letter B Interactive Notebook Pages HERE.