Preschool - Week 19 - Letter R

This week was brought to you by the Letter R and the Number 18. :-)

Additional books:
Russia by Streissguth, Thomas
Raccoons (Rookie Read-About Science), Allan Fowler
Welcome to Russia by Schemenauer, Elma.

Here's what we covered:

Language Arts:
- Letter of the week craft:

- Handwriting worksheets (rainbow, letter R, printing R)
- R Sound worksheet

Math:
- Number 18 worksheet
- R Counting worksheet
- Brought back the grid game for the girls to play (with Roses in the grid):

- Rectangles (C used our kiddie camera to do a photo-hunt in the house and take pictures of rectangle shapes she found)

Science:
- Raccoons (read books about raccoons, used a measuring tape to see how big they are, weighed a fork in our hand to feel how light a newborn raccoon is, made a raccoon heart craft)

- Science Journal page:

Social Studies:
- Russia (read books on Russia, found Russia on the globe, practiced saying "DAH" and "NYET" for "yes" and "no")

Sight Words:
- red, run, rain
- Only three words this week. C is still struggling with the "Q" words - especially confusing the lower case "q" with lower case "p."
- We are up to 88 words! I've decided to break up her words into two stacks, and only go through one half at a time. I'll include the new words each time, but going through them all is taking quite a long time...

Snack:
- Raisins

Music:
- Maurice Ravel (when the second song came on, E said it sounded like someone had died. Oddly enough, the title was "Pavane for Dead Princess.")



Bible Stories:
- Joseph Forgives his Brothers, Jesus wants us to be thankful
- Made a magazine collage of things C is thankful for (hair, friends, dogs and celebrations):

Game/Activity:
- Rhyming
   * I had C match up these rhyming word puzzles, from a set she got for Christmas. This was good reading practice, too. Her first guess for some words wasn't correct, so I asked her to sound out the words to help her make the match ("plate" vs. "dish")