Syllable counting (1, 2, and 3). This was Izzie's first time "clapping" out syllables. This was much harder for her than I anticipated. She had a hard time breaking down the word, while clapping. After a lot of practice, she is understanding a little better. I'll be incorporating more syllable counting, to give her more practice and a better understanding of this concept.
She completed several math activities from this set. I was thrilled that many of the worksheets related to Goldilocks and The Three Bears!
Review from here: Illustrated with splotches of color, the story has several layers of meaning from the simple story of friendship through the exploration of color to the feelings of racial prejudice. We are shown Little Blue as a ragged circle of blue on the white page. Later we meet his mother and father, his many friends, but especially Little Yellow who lives across the street with Mama Yellow and Papa Yellow. Using only these simple shapes, Lionni shows the children at school and at play. Then, when Little Blue and Little Yellow are separated for a bit only to find each other at last, they are so joyful that they hug each other and turn green. As a single green shape, they play and then go, first to Little Blue's house and then to Little Yellow's only to be rejected and unrecognized. They cry little blue and yellow tears until they are all tears and then, punningly, they "pull themselves together and go home" as separate shapes again.
To review the letter "Y" sound, we discussed words that begin with the letter "Y" sound, then completed this cut and paste activity.
Letter Y template can be found here and the picture cards from here.
Afterward, they were able to mix the colors blue and yellow to make green!
Ummm....looks like I didn't get any pictures of the girls making the black sheep! They clued curly black yarn on the sheep!
Watercolor paints.
I printed off the Brown Bear characters, then had the girls "create" each. Afterward, I simply cut out the completed animals and pasted them to the handouts below. I then placed them in page protectors in a binder...a BIG emergent reader!
Izzie's handwriting is improving! I taught her to write her capital letters first, which now I regret not starting with her lowercase letters and I'm even thinking now, maybe I should have starting with cursive writing...decisions, decisions, decisions! She has been struggling and basically refusing to write in lowercase. With a lot of praise (sometimes, begging), she's attempting to write in lowercase letters!
Letter I...she wanted to see if she could write 100 letter I's!
Letters "s" and "e"...she starts with the homemade sandpaper letter (to practice the correct stroke), then moves on to the large tracing letter (inside sheet protector, so she can reuse), and finally she writes the individual letters on her dry-erase board.
Putting the letters together to write the word "see".
Writing the sight word "see" and then reading the simple sentences!
I've included the handouts for this cut and paste activity. **However, please notice that the pictures are missing.** You could have your child draw in the correct picture or do a little cutting and pasting, like I did. I was unable to find any Brown Bear characters clip art on-line, but I did found some here. So, I printed the characters off, taped them onto the handouts, and made a copy (so, Izzie could color the characters).
She also completed activities for sight words, "I" "see" and "a", from Kindergarten Crayons Sight Words Packet. Worth the $15! A variety of sight word activities for the entire year!
Throughout the week, she retold the story to Mac (priceless) using the story-props!
And she read these simple sentences from the book, then matched up the correct character.
Both girls are really into "retelling" stories, so here are some more story props!
I added Velcro to the pieces, which thrilled the girls! They really liked being able to place Goldilocks on the chairs and beds.
Syllable counting (1, 2, and 3). This was Izzie's first time "clapping" out syllables. This was much harder for her than I anticipated. She had a hard time breaking down the word, while clapping. After a lot of practice, she is understanding a little better. I'll be incorporating more syllable counting, to give her more practice and a better understanding of this concept.
She completed several math activities from this set. I was thrilled that many of the worksheets related to Goldilocks and The Three Bears!
I see 3 bears. I see a girl. 
