Preschool

Deen is 4 1/2 years old.

We did the let­ter A in preschool cor­ner this week.

Play dough is sup­posed to help a child with their pen­cil grip and I want a more hands on approach to learn­ing his alpha­bets so I am incor­po­rat­ing these great Play Dough Mats to do with our alpha­bets. It is a great sen­sory expe­ri­ence as well.

I tried these with him a few months ago and he didn’t seem to inter­ested. This week though he loved the play dough mats.

He did a trac­ing work­sheet even though he isn’t very fond of trac­ing and writ­ten work.  I am really con­fused on what to do about the writ­ing. He doesn’t enjoy it and I won­der if we should just leave these alone for a while and come back to them at a later stage when he is more keen on it. On the other hand though I won­der if the way to strengthen his hand and pen­cil grip is to prac­tice and get used to it?He enjoyed the Ear Twig­gles file folder game. He had to put all the things that started with A in the A bas­ket and every­thing else in the blank bas­ket. We also did some of the Let­ter of Week A activ­i­ties includ­ing this count­ing apple seeds activ­ity.
He did the sequenc­ing really quick and seems to be great at this.

I bought the kids the Melissa and Doug Cookie Play Food and it was a com­plete hit. They spent hours in imag­i­nary play mode. This also worked on great skills. It was a great purchase!

Resources we used:

Let­ter A Activ­i­ties from Con­fes­sions of A Home­schooler
Play Dough Alpha­bet Mats from Home­school Cre­ations
File Folder Game from Ear Twiggles

I have linked this post to Preschool Cor­ner. Go to Home­school Cre­ations to see what oth­ers did in Preschool this week.

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