Letter F...

This week we focused on the letter F and unlike our previous weeks, this post will be short and sweet! Like most weeks we kicked off the week by tracing and practicing writing our lowercase and uppercase F's ,but these just weren't challenging to our preschooler after already mastering the letter E last week. We kicked up our gears and completed our letter of the week crafts early in the week, we did a fox for capital F and a flower for lowercase F.

Here is where our week of F begins to be completely different from the previous five weeks of our more conventional learning, we threw all lesson plans, crafts, and workbooks out the window. This week we are all about fitness and getting our bodies moving. I couldn't think of a better way to kick off our week of fitness and just our mornings in general than by incorporating some yoga into our day. This is a great morning or night activity that both our toddlers could easily do alongside us, especially if you focus it on children's yoga like this great visual we found on Pinterest:

Why stop there?! This is a week all about getting active and fitness so it shouldn't only be incorporated into our mornings, we found fun ways to keep our bodies active all day. Here are just a handful of ways we kept our bodies going:

• Running! In our household there is nothing I enjoy more than a morning jog and I love sharing my time running with our toddlers. After awhile our preschooler started to skip the jogging stroller completely and run in 1/2 mile to 1 mile increments alongside me.
• Parks. They honestly just don't get the credit they deserve for getting kids up and active, we try to work in at least two trips the local park every week. If you are fortunate to live close to some local parks in your own town then you can even walk to and from the park.

 

• Indoor play places. Luckily we have an indoor play area in our local mall as well as an indoor bounce house in the next town over. These are great options for when the weather just isn't cooperating.

 

 

• Playing outside! You don't need a park or sports to just get outside in your own yards to get active. Honestly, the options are endless for this one. We usually use our yard for kicking around balls, running and chasing, or impromptu water play.

 

• Riding bikes (in our case sometimes using scooters). Another great option for getting active outside.



• Hiking! This is one the whole family can really enjoy and is an easy option for the weekends.

• Sports, there are so many options out there to sign your kids up for any type of sports or activity. Even in our local town we have every sport you could think of, plus karate, tumbling, etc. We let our toddlers choose what they would like to try, this year our son decided on swimming lessons.

There you have it, we ditched the textbooks and emerged ourselves in a week of just fun options for being active. I'm guessing this isn't the week you thought it would be, usually we have sensory options, crafts, and fun learning games. After five straight weeks of that, I couldn't think of a better reason to just take a week off. That's the great thing about learning at home, our days aren't on a Monday - Friday schedule and we can take breaks from homeschooling entirely. We decided to wrap up the week entirely with a little counting game. All you need is a piece of paper to draw small fishbowls on, goldfish crackers, and to number the fishbowls accordingly. We numbered ours from 1-6 (we even dotted the amount of number to help our preschooler). Let you preschooler count the number and count out the appropriate amount of crackers to go in each fishbowl. An easy way to incorporate counting and reviewing numbers while providing a small snack.

And like every other week, we added our letter F to our very own Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree at home. This wraps up another week for Homeschool Oregon, we hope you enjoy the week and will be back with a post all about our week spent on the letter G!