Letter C...

We are moving onto the next letter of the alphabet, the letter C! This week we kicked things off with a favorite book in our household and a fun activity to go along with it:

And you can probably guess what activity we chose to go along with our book of the week? Making some fresh oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with my two favorite little chefs. Going with this book's theme I thought it would be fun to add a hands on counting activity involving our own cookie for mouse and some chocolate chips (on a little side note if you use real chocolate chips like we did be prepared to have a few missing by the end of the game or you could cut out some pretend chocolate chips for the game). We would hold up a flashcard with a number on it, have him count out the number and then add that many chocolate chips to his own cookie, it really helped for him to count out the chocolate chips as he was putting them on his cookie. After we finished the game, he got to eat the ten chocolate chips as a reward!

Like the previous weeks we worked on learning, tracing, and writing our uppercase and lowercase C's. We also spent a good amount of time focusing on our colors section of our workbooks, they had some great activities for associating colors with the spelling of the specific color and relating it to the object itself. You could do this with any coloring book or even a print out and have them color code it with you.

Over the middle of the week we shifted back our focus to our letter of the week craft! This has been something that our preschooler really looks forward to during our homeschooling and we talk about what we would like to create together for the week. I try to leave the actual crafts for the week up to our toddler as much as possible not just because I think it helps him feel like he gets to be involved in choosing what he learns ,but also because it is really fun to see what he comes up with. This week we decided to make an uppercase C carrot and a lowercase c cat.

Moving onto the later part of our week we shifted focus to covering our bible lesson which this week we decided to continue with our bible story theme of last week and Easter itself and learn more about the cross. Thanks to our son's Sunday school class he already had a color by numbers picture we hadn't gotten to yet and the focus of it was the cross. We also have been using the Bible for Kids app on our kindle to teach bible stories in a fun, hands on approach.

 

This was our color by numbers cross picture we had our preschooler work on after our bible lesson, the numbers were located at the top and to make it a little easier I marked the color associated with that number right below it. This really helped him figure out that each number meant a specific color and was actually able to do this activity by himself. Something new that I have been meaning to incorporate into each week's post is books we are loving as a family for each letter. Here are some of our own personal favorite's for the letter C:

As always we finished up our week by adding our letter C to our very own personal Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree! Keep on the watch for next week's letter of the week, we are moving onto the letter D which happens to be my son's personal favorite. We will have a fun dinosaur week planned that will be filled with some awesome crafts, a counting game, and a sensory bin with our very own cloud dough recipe!