preschool idea

This school year Adeline is attending "Mommy's Preschool." We've been having a lot of fun together. Her lessons are about 30 min. long. We work on 1 letter & 1 shape each week. After 5 weeks I will have a review week with each day of the week a review day for 1 letter and 1 shape. After we've learned the basic shapes I will move on to numbers. So each week will be 1 letter and 1 number.

I've been using resources off the internet (of which there are a plethora) and books from our public library. One of the book series that our library carries is called The Sound Box. Each book focuses on a letter of the alphabet, and the character finds objects that begin with that letter's sound and he/she puts it in the sound box. I thought that would be a fun activity to do. So I made a letter box. The letter's on the box are removable, and each week I attach the letter we're working on. We do 1 letter a week. For the letter A we did the letter box twice, once for the short A sound and once for the long A sound. I print out pictures and tape them around the upstairs. Then Adeline "hunts" for them. She LOVES this activity. We do it on the day that we read the Sound Box book for that week. I plan on making a shape box and a number box for those review weeks.