Letter Learning

 Even though Adley can now recognize and write each letter of the alphabet, we have continued to focus on a "letter of the week" together. We still want to complete Adley's expanding tactile letter book. Plus, we love the variety of activities that we can dive into when learning about a new letter. Here are some of the fun activities we've done recently.

Letter A

First, Adley used her Melissa and Doug animal stamps to decorate her letter A page.

Then, Adley praticed drawing arrows on small pieces of paper.

We took turns creating pathways for one another around the house with these arrows.

Adley's pathways for me were quite a bit shorter!

Another day, I taught Adley how to fold a paper airplane, and we practiced flying these around the house.

We headed to Grandpa and Grandma's house later that morning, so Adley could hang with them while Mommy got a haircut. We had Grandpa and Grandma join in on the airplane fun too!

LETTER S

Letter S was a fun one with lots of great activities. We started out with the letter sound cover page. Adley decided that she wanted to use a green dot painter for all the correct sounds and a red dot painter for all the incorrect sounds.

Then, she used star stickers to decorate her tactile letter book page.

Drawing the letter S is tricky, so we used this great worksheet for letter-writing practice.

Another day, we brought out the paint for a couple letter S activities. First, Adley made a snake by alternating colors on two different fingers.

Then, she made a book about spiders by stamping her fingerprint multiple times on each page.

After her fingerprints had dried, Adley drew 8 legs on each one to create spiders.

Her final task was counting how many spiders she had created on each page and writing in that number at the bottom. When her book was finished, Adley was so proud to "read" this book all by herself!

 Later in the week, we tried splat painting. This was so fun! We put rice into a leg of old pantyhose, dipped it into paint, and then bounced the rice ball onto paper.

One of Adley's favorite S activities was doing scavenger hunts. We started with a "shape" scavenger hunt and then, because she liked it so well, we did another one for "around the house" items.

We love our letter learning days!