L is for Leaf

L is for Leaf!

Wow - I uploaded all the pics from the letter L and  was amazed at how much we did in one week. I may need to rethink how to do these posts. - Any comments are always welcome!

This post has to do with all activities we did around the letter Ll and Leafs. They are not in any particular order. We did structure our time so we did similar activities at the same time every day. 

For the letter Ll leaf pages I got all the printables from 1+1+1 Printables

Morning time with Jumping Bean and Curious:

Intro to the Letter Ll. Our color for the week is yellow so you will see lots of yellow.

Curious did this for about 1 min. (hahaha)

This was a great Do - A - Dot activity. A leaf with Capital L and lowercase l. 

J.B. had to find all the Capital L's then pass the Dot marker to Curious. 

Then back to J.B. to find lowercase l.

Curious real attitude about sharing! 

This is pom pom magnets. L is for Leaf you can find lots more at Making Learning Fun

Curious was apart of this. He was putting all the pom pom's into a cup 

and caring them around the room. - It took a while to find them and get them back in the tub.

Part of Raising Rock Stars We add to this each day. Jumping Bean made candle puppets for both of them and we would sing "This Little Light Of Mine" together. Curious loved the puppet and song!

More fun play-doh time using L cookie cutters and L stamps. 

As well as items to make impressions like leaves.

One on One Time with Jumping Bean:

Working with the Ll leaf lacing card - yes yellow string.

We are making a Letter Book. I got this fun idea from my aunt her daughter did something very similar - When I found it on this sight Home School Creations -preschool alphabet I had to do it.  

This week Letter Ll. J.B. cut out the pics that start with Ll.

As he glued them on the Ll page we made sure to say each pic with the L sound.

Color recognition - Each leaf had the color written in word form in that color. Example: Red

J.B. had to color each leaf the right color and try to stay in the lines. - Good Job!!!

Different ways to practice handwriting.

This printable came from Confessions Of A Homeschooler (COAH)

Shadow Matching Uppercase L with Lowercase l. 

He had to color the Letter Ll yellow, and the pics that start with the Ll sound yellow. 

Once he followed the instructions he was free to color as he wanted.

Cut and Past shapes to yes yellow paper. When he glued them on we talked about what shape it was. 

We went outside and picked leaves and glued them to make the letter Ll

Every day we write the letter. Here is one pic 

Because it is fall in the AK - we have lots of yellow leaves. 

Lucky J.B. got to use some pressed leaves to do his counting. We counted up to 10.

Having fun with Alphie the robot. Using the Ll card. 

I gave him these cards that have a pic of something that starts with Ll

As we flipped them right side up one by one we said the pic using the Ll sound.

He then separated out his favorite ones.

Raising Rock Stars Time:

This is Raising Rock Stars Letter Ll. Every day we do an activity and add it to our board.

Working with our Letter Ll, Number 1, and sight word see

We used the cards in different ways. J.B. is reading is book.

Jumping Bean proudly showing is candle project with verse.

J.B. cut his verse and taped it together - it was almost as long / tall as he was.

Feeling defeated

After spending 2 hrs working on L is for Leaf - none of my work saved - my session must of timed out - so feeling very defeated tonight - I will try again to get it posted tomorrow night :(

Who Am I and How God Knows Me

My Goal is to have a Theme each month. Since school started mid Aug - and it's all intro to what we are doing, and establishing our routine. Our Theme is light hearted and fun as well. Some schools do an All About Me segment for the beginning of school, and I copied some of those ideas.

Who Am I? How God Knows Me.  It is based out of Psalm 139 - How he knows everything about us.  I made these fun books for us to fill out.  Every thing from 1st, middle, and last names, hand prints, where I live, God made me with _____ eyes, and ______ hair - to favorite foods, fav color, etc.....

You can click on the link to view and print this book. It is set up for double sided printing.

All About Me Book

Jumping Bean proudly showing off his book - Curious was not happy his picture was stuck on the book.

I traced the boys - then cut them out and hung them on the wall. Jumping Bean did a great job.

Wait where are you going? - Yes it took both Jumping Bean and myself to hold down one limb at a time and get him traced. Curious thought it was funny - so of corse moved around even more.

It's hard to see but I cut their outline out and hung it on the wall. A good tip - the local news miner puts out free left over new paper rolls - first come first serve - I missed out this time, but it great for all kinds of coloring projects! - Did I mention - it free!!

As part of the books, I had the boys put their hand prints in them. 

This went pretty well. - This was a good exercise for Curious to learn patients and taking turns. 

Jumping Bean really liked this!

So we made extra hand prints. - I later glued them to a file folder to make it firm - cut them out and laminated them with contact paper to make place mats. The boys like them. 

In an effort to teach Jumping bean where he lives We cut out our State (Alaska) and circled our town (Fairbanks) - He then glued it in. Curious went straight for the glue - then the glue went straight to his mouth - yuck!

To get an idea of our address I took the boys to the street sign with our address board. - yea it's still under construction like the house! - Then they glued this pic in their book too.

On the next page was their height and weight. - I did not get a chance to take a pic of the height. *Thank you to Aunt E for the use of her home and scale!*

A pic of the book layout. 

We did a page on God Created me with..... I brought the mirror in and they looked at their eye color and hair color then colored in the blank spots of the book.  - I did not get any pics of them coloring or looking in the mirror - bummer - I must have been to busy picking up crayons the curious had all over the place. 

The last page was My Favorites. Jumping Bean cut out his fav food, toys and likes and made a collage.

He did a good job cutting a pasting. I just decided to not attempt this with Curious after the last glue incident.

To go along with our theme I made a sensory bin - my 1st one. You can check out that post by clicking on this link.  Sensory Bin - Who Am I

Fun Things we used for our Theme: