Just Another Homeschool Blog: Week 1: Letter A

Some of you may know that we tried a "Letter of the Week" program with Braxton last month and he didn't care for it too much. It wasn't hands on enough for him. So, after 2 weeks of researching I've found something BETTER. After browsing the blogs Homeschool Creations and Confessions of a Homeschooler I have come up with a fun, hands on "curriculum" for Braxton.

Week 1: Letter A

Now, I couldn't decide on a theme between all the resources I found so we didn't really have just one theme...we just focused on different things that start with "A." (Ants, Apples & Alligators.)

B playing his Apple Sequencing file folder game.

We tasted 3 kinds/colors of apples (Red Delicious, Granny Smith & Golden Delicious) and voted for our favorite. Granny Smith won.:) I tried asking Braxton how each apple tasted (sweet, tart, bitter, etc) but all he would answer is "Good!!"

We made these adorable "munched on" apples . It took quite a bit of convincing to get Braxton to tear his apple in half. That is why there is one full apple in there. One of them I made, once he saw what it was supposed to look like he wanted to do one. So that is why there are 3 apples in his Alphabet Book.

Here is B tracing the letter A. I printed the A tracing page from here and then laminated it so he could use dry erase markers to trace over and over and over again. (He LOVES this. This is one thing we did every single day. )

So after lots of tracing I tried something else. I just got him a blank sheet of paper and asked if he could write the letter A on the paper. He looked at the trace sheet for reference and he DID IT! I was shocked. He wrote several letter A's and then started coloring. ;)

B playing an Ant Sequencing Game.

Ant lapbook full of games and activities.

Braxton likes to eat around the outside of an apple once and then he's done, so to keep the apple from going to waste we found another way to use it! I cut it in half and let him make apple prints with paint!