Letter "A" Week

I need to start doing these updates in Thursdays because sadly enough I forget everything we did all last week...getting old is tough!! I do know that we learned the letter "A"...I emphasized the sound "a" like apple but also taught them A:APE and AU:Autumn.

A VERY IMPORTANT THING we worked on this week (and I need lots of help from home) is the correct formation of letters. I drew a picture of a clock and explained to them where the different numbers were...I taught them they HAVE to start on the NUMBER TWO, and go up and around and go COUNTER CLOCK WISE...so many of them like to start on the bottom (or 6 o clock) and end on the bottom...or they start on the top and go clockwise....PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE sit with them for a minute while they do their homework and make sure they are forming their letters the correct way... this will help them IMMENSELY when they get to elementary school..same with their name...the FIRST letter is capital and all the rest are lower case.

I think the pictures show a lot of the other activities we did in school this week.

This coming up week we will beginning the letter "T" and will be wrapping up our rain forest unit...this should be the last week. It also will be mostly writing/drawing activities and games...the big crafts will most likely be non existent for the week. I did have a thought this weekend...I have never been there...and not sure how expensive it is...but I thought it might be fun for you as a family or possibly a mom or dad/preschooler date to go to Arizona Mills mall and either visit Rainforest Cafe and see all the animals (I know that parts free) or possibly even eat there...they would probably get a kick out of it!

Have a great week!!