Week 6 Overview - "C is for Cats"

I think I'm going to stop posting the lesson plans, as I realize those may not be quite as interesting as seeing what we actually do. I'll just cover everything we do in a weekly overview.

The letter of the week was the letter C and I chose to make it a "C is for Cats" theme. To introduce the letter of the week, Caleb glued cotton balls onto the letter C.

We worked more on his name this week, which was perfect since our letter of the week was the first letter of his name! C is for Caleb! This week I spelled out his name with flashcards again, but this time pulled out the same letters in our sandpaper letters and had him find the matches to each letter and put it underneath.

I was so proud when yesterday we were playing with the Magnadoodle and I wrote out his name and he looked at it and said, "That's my name!". Success!!

I also brought out the foam letter stickers for the week and he played with those for a while.



To go along with our cat theme, we read the story of Daniel in the lions' den from My Story Bible.

We also read from our books of the week.

For a craft to go along with our theme, we made a lion from a paper plate! I originally got the idea from something I saw on Pinterest, but changed it a bit when I found that the rotini pasta we were going to use for the lion's mane doesn't glue very well to paper plates.

For supplies, we used a paper plate, watercolor paints, construction paper, and glue. First we painted the plate with orange, yellow, and red watercolor paint.

Then I cut out eyes from white and black paper, a nose from brown paper, and a mouth out of black paper. I also cut out skinny strips from yellow, orange, and brown paper to make the lion's mane. This project ended up being a lot more "mommy work" since it took me a while to curl up all of the strips of paper for the mane. While I did that, I let Caleb paint another paper plate however he chose. I did get his help gluing the curled paper to the plate.

After we made the lion we did the Going on a Lion Hunt chant. Caleb had a lot of fun acting that out. I wish I had remembered to take a picture, but I was busy acting it out, too! :)

Our color of the week was purple. To incorporate the color into some fine motor skills, we did some finger painting with purple paint! Caleb looked at me a bit incredulously when I told him he could actually put his hands in the paint!

While he painted, I read him Harold and the Purple Crayon.

I made some more playdough, but couldn't seem to find the grape Koolaid packet I had to make it scented. We used it to cut out our number of the week and to make the letter C.

For the number of the week, we are creating an apple tree counting book. Each week we add the correct number of apple stickers to a tree. At the end of the school year we should have a complete book with pages for 0 - 20.

Another great week! I am so happy he is still enjoying school time so much!!