More Letter Fun

Adley and I got on a roll with our letter activities in the fall. It helps that Adley consistently asked me, "Mommy, what letter are we learning about today?" She loves all the special projects we get to do, and I appreciate the focused playtime I have with Adley. It's a win-win! Here are three of our letters from the fall.

 LETTER Q

Adley used Q-tips to decorate her tactile letter book page. Now that her book is quite full of letter pages, Adley especially enjoys placing the completed page in her binder and reading through the whole book.

Then, since the Q-tips were out anyway, Adley tried out painting with Q-tips.

Since Q activities are a little harder to come by, we stretched a bit... This math activity was about the word eQual. Adley learned what an equal sign looks like and set up sample equations with Duplos.

Adley's favorite Q activity was creating a paper quilt with some of my old scrapbooking paper. She was very methodical about placing the squares. Adley liked doing this activity so much, she asked to make a second one the next day!

LETTER N

We saved letter N for towards the end of our letter activities since it's a more challenging letter to write. This page was helpful for practicing that task.

Adley filled her letter N tactile book page with scraps of newspaper. I was surprised at how much I had to carefully glean out which clippings contained appropriate words/stories!

Adley usually asks to do this sound cover activity first. She's getting so good at isolating the beginning sounds of her words.

Our next activity was making a picture with noodles. Adley thought this was a little silly.

Another day, we made a night sky with sequins as stars.

Our last N activity was focused on the nose. I filled several containers with various strong-smelling kitchen items (cinnamon, coffee grounds, vanilla, vinegar, pepper, lemon juice, etc). We smelled each one and talked about it. Then, Adley tried to guess which container was which by smelling with her eyes closed. She thought it was SO funny when I gave her a not-so-good smelling substance. By the end of this activity, she got pretty good at identifying her smells! We practiced quite a bit!

LETTER M

For letter M, Adley cut out clip art images of monsters to fill her tactile letter book page.

Then, she made a monster picture using a blow painting technique.

We practiced creating the letter M using M&Ms and marshmallows.

Continuing with the monster theme, Adley rolled a monster die and graphed her results according to which color monster she rolled. We did a similar activity for another letter, and she loved it both times. She liked trying to predict which monster would "win," or get to the top of the graph first. She certainly has a competitive streak in her, just like her brothers!

Our final activity was playing around with Music. We watched a youtube video that explained how various instruments were played. After multiple times of watching, Adley got pretty good at showing how to hold and play each instrument. It was a fast, fun little video. We also listened to and danced to various genres of music. 

And that's a wrap for QNM! Only 8 more letters to go...