Welcome to another series of Letter Sound of the Week! Today, I’m going to share our ‘star’ themed activities for learning the letter s sound. Vito really really like seeing stars around the house, and it’s the first shape that he can identify. So while he’s at it, we jumped from letter c to learning letter s!
Letter Sound Basket. None this week. All we ever did was look at stars!
Painting the letter S. We are exploring different mediums in painting and currently, the boys love the roller paint brushes I got for them last month. So here is Vito painting the letter with a roller brush which he loves to use. As we do the stroke, I would emphasize the word “up” and “down”. I would exaggerate the hand stroke a little bit to demonstrate what does up and down means. And yes, this is also an activity for colour recognition: yellow.
Playdough & Star Cookie Cutter. Playdough is a great activity for fine motor skills. Vito is enjoying playdough so far. He likes squeezing and grasping the dough already. We used our star cookie cutter for this.
Counting & Gluing. An activity that’s like hitting two birds with one stone. Practise gluing and counting at the same time. What I did here was punch the star shapes and made Vito apply glue on the paper. Then we place the stars according to their number. We then count the stars over and over. These days, Vito loves to count than reciting the letters LOL. He’s like, 2, 2, ,2!
An activity that’s like hitting two birds with one stone. Practise gluing and counting at the same time. What I did here was punch the star shapes and made Vito apply glue on the paper. Then we place the stars according to their number
Colour Matching. This is a DIY. I printed stars in coloured cardstock papers, laminate then glue them on the popsicle sticks. The bead cubes were from Melissa & Doug Lacing Beads. We matched the stars to the cube by placing them into the hole. I showed Vito how to do it first and then he mimicked my actions. The matching of colours is still a hit or miss, so I’m guessing he couldn’t recognize them yet.
Big and Small. A random activity while playing the cookie cutter. I was showed Vito the big star and small star. He wasn't interested at all with this.
Now, for this week's feature! Here are my favourites this week, something that we would like to try this summer!
FREE Summer Songs and Rhymes for Circle Time by Living Montessori Now
Parts of a Fruit Lesson with Printables by The Natural Homeschool
Shark Unit Study by Gypsy Road
Accordion Critters by Little Fingers Big Art
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