Kidamerinks Preschool: Letter I

This week, we have been learning about the Letter "I."

If you have missed the previous Letter Weeks, check them out Here.

We are taking a Kumon approach to writing letters, for more information take a look at The Kidamerink Method.

Next week, we will be doing a "review" unit on the Letters L, T, H & I.

We had some fun with Sidewalk Chalk the other day. I found some 3D Sidewalk Chalk on Clearance, and decided to try it out. It is actually really cool and I definitely recommend it. If you had your 3D glasses on while looking at this picture, my <sorry> looking Iguana would "pop" out at you! :)

I love sidewalk chalk because it is such a fun, easy and generally cheap activity.

We practiced writing Upper Case and Lower Case "I's" with chalk.
 

 

 We did a lot of different letter worksheets this week and work in our Curriculum Book.

Here is a link to some of the pages we used:  

Letter I Worksheets (DLTK)

Letter I Worksheets (Lanternfish).

We had fun doing this Ice Cream Dot-to-Dot.
 

For counting practice we built an Ice Cream Cone with 10 Scoops. Then, we glued the numbers on the scoops and counted them. 

I let my Kidamerink cut out the numbers for his cutting practice.

 

Here's our finished Ice Cream Cone! We took turns picking out our favorite color and "eating" them.

Here is the link to this free printable: First School Preschool Activities, Ice Cream Craft.

 

We also talked a lot about Insects this week. We went on our own little Insect hunt, but all we could find -- or rather -- all that my Kidamerink would touch was this little Roly Poly. 

My Kidamerink was too concerned with putting the Roly Poly in "Jail" so, we soon let him go free!

I also found this really neat "I is for Insects" Printable from Oopsey Daisy. Her packet is AMAZING!! But beware, it is about 80 pages LONG!! Which is a bit overboard for me. But, I chose to do a few things from her packet. 

I did not print out the entire packet, but I did print out these Movement Cards which were such a hit! We were being too silly for me to take pictures of us sliding like snails, or jumping like Crickets!

 

I also printed out the Insect Patterns, from Oopsey Daisy's: "I is for Insects" Packet. My Kidamerink had a lot of fun with these. I would create a pattern, and then he would copy it on his own. Then, he thought it would be fun to create his own patterns, and he did pretty good!

We also made a simple Igloo out of Paper and Cotton Balls. I drew a simple Igloo with a Sharpie...

Then my Kidamerink glued on the Cotton Balls. He's really into the show "Pingu" which is a penguin show (really annoying, they don't talk) but he likes it -- and ok, it is cute... So, he was excited to build "Pingu's" house.
 

 

We made some fun Ice Cubes for Bath Time. We talked about how Ice is made and the different "states" of water: gas, solid, liquid etc. for our Science portion. 

These were a great hit!

View the Original Post Here: Kidamerinks Activity: Bath Time Fun

We made some "Icky" Green Smoothies. They were really tasty and really healthy for my Kidamerink!!

View the Original Post Here: Kidamerinks in the Kitchen: "Icky" Green Smoothies

And, to complete our Ice Cream studies we decided to try our hand at making some Ice Cream.

This Ice Cream is only made out of Frozen Banana's and Cocoa Powder!! It is super easy and a super healthier version of Ice Cream.

View the Original Post Here: Kidamerinks in the Kitchen: Ice Cream

Here are some books and helps that we used this week: