Saturday, October 8, 2011

Kidamerinks Preschool: Review Week

This week we spent lots of time reviewing our past four units that we have been working on. 

These include the Letter's L, T, H, & I.

I think it is important to Review and I am planning to do a review after every 4 Letters in sequence. 

We basically just re-used the manipulatives that I created for each Letter Unit and studied one letter per day.

Here are the links to the Letter's that we've been working on, and you can view each unit separately, or you can click on the Kidamerinks Preschool Tab and view them there as well:







 


 So, this week is kind of a boring week as far as "blogging" goes and "pictures." I decided to cool it on the pictures this week and just spend the time with my Kidamerink reviewing his letters. 

I think I've drilled those letters in his brain too well though, he's been practicing writing them on everything and in sequence! :) 


Here is one picture I took this week. I drew out the Letters L, T, H & I in block letters and let him "paint" them. These are Crayola's No-Spill Water Color Paints. They are pretty awesome!

We had fun re-doing each unit this last week. Every day I would bring out something new and my Kidamerink got so excited and would say, "I remember this one!!" It was fun. I also liked getting a little more use out of everything!


We had fun making some Play-Doh out of Jell-O for an activity one day. We shaped the new Play-Doh into the letters as well. This Play-doh was seriously one of the best Play-doh's I've ever made! Go check out the recipe and How To, Here: Jello Play-Doh.

We also spent a lot more time reading this week. I started implementing D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything And Read) into our every-day lives and it has made a serious impact on me and my Kidamerinks. To find more about D.E.A.R., Click Here. 

And, I made my first Sensory Bin! 


Since Halloween is coming up, I decided I would create a monthly sensory bin created around a Holiday Theme. 

If you would like to know more about the importance of Sensory Bins and Sensory Play, take a look at this post from 1+1+1=1: Montessori Minute: Sensory Activities.


This has entertained my Kidamerink for Hours at a time. He loves the Eye Balls and the Spiders. He also loves filling up the Tin Cups with beans and pretending that he is a dump truck. 


I gave him an ordinary Ice Cube Tray to sort out what "treasures" he found in the sensory bin. He loved it, and I love watching him in his element discovering "self-directed" play.

**This was really easy to put together and relatively cheap. I found a lot of the little items at Michael's or the Dollar Store. The Bin and the Tin Cups I found in the Dollar Spot in Target. The beans were from food storage. 

Easy-Peasy-Fun entertainment that also builds neurons!! Yay!! Haha!! :)

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