Friday, June 24, 2011

brought to you by the letter "s"

Today I bring to you the first installation of our ABCs of summer. Basically, I'm going to pick a letter of the day to concentrate on, and try to find as many things to do for the day that start with that letter. We are also going to practice writing that letter, and talk about its sound all day. I'm hoping that this will give our days a little bit more focus, while working on pre-literacy skills and vocabulary expansion with Lucas!

Today's letter was S. We practiced writing it in one of these cool workbooks that I got on Amazon a few weeks ago on sale...


We ate an egg & cheese Sandwich for breakfast...


Then we went to the park to play in the Sand...


Swing like a monkey...


go down the *gasp* plastic Slide...


and we finished off the first half of the day in Oma's Swimming pool...


It was easy, fun, (free), and focused. It gave us something to talk about all day long. I was happy when Nate came home from his grad class and Lucas told him about the letter of the day unprompted! I'm looking forward to the rest of our ABC days... in no particular order, of course.

3 comments:

Jenna said...

HI
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leah said...

I love that idea! What a fun way to spend summer (as long as he doesn't say, "Hey, Mom: D is for Disney World!")

I'm doing theme weeks to follow our library's summer reading program. This week is going to be about "Happy Birthday America." We're going to try to make quill pens, flags, and talk about our country a little. I have a gazillion books from the library, and I'm hoping to get more ideas from the books, lol!

Amy said...

What a super fantastic idea! I remember starting letter sounds with my older daughter the summer before she started junior kindergarten (age 5). And I'll tell you she really sailed through already knowing the sounds of most of the alphabet. It kickstarted her reading too. Our deaf and hoh kiddos really benefit from these types of "head starts". I don't see why Ava can't start now that she just turned 3. Thanks for sharing!