Letter A week- Apples, Ants, Alligators, and Astronauts (Day 2)

Day 2 Today we continued to talk about apples because lets just be honest, there are SO many fun and cute apple crafts out there that it is way to hard to narrow them down! Tuesday (apples) -Apple rolls -Apple lacing -Torn paper Apple tree Short vowel apples (reading cvc words) File folder apple counting Apple fractions book Which is different? Make apple muffins Apple Rolls  (No time for flashcards)  This was a little more challenging that I thought it would be.  I cut the toilet paper roll and then had them paint it  We then used a stapler to add the green painted leaf.... Apple lacing (No time for flashcards)  We...

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Letter A week- Apples, Ants, Alligators, and Astronauts! (Overview)

I planned WAY too much for this week and didn't get to all of the activities that I had planned on my lesson plan.  Here are the ones that we got to through!   (Green are activities that need materials and yellow are printable activities.   Each activity activity is linked back it it's original source) Monday (apples) Tuesday (apples) Wednesday (ant, apple cont.) Thursday (astronaut, alligator) -Apple books -Lower case apple a -Apple rolls -Letter A for ants Ant books   A for alligator and Alligator books Painting- apple prints on a tree -Apple lacing -Torn paper Apple tree -Color by number ant -Capital lower case sorting  -Alligator color words -Color page (pg 80) -Apple...

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Letter A Week- Apples, Ants, Astronauts, and Alligators! (Day 1 activities)

Letter of the Week (Aa)  Day 1 Monday (apples) -Apple books -Lower case apple a Painting- apple prints on a tree -Apple measuring (source) -Apple cutting practice -Matching apples to numbers -Basket of apples Color word  (pg 8-9) Apple spinner graphing game  Make apple scented playdough and play with animal crackers in them We started our week learning about A is for APPLE!  Here is a link to some really great Apple books from Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas.  We found most of these at our local library.   Lowercase letter a   (No time for flash cards) This was a great activity that required very little...

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Letter A Week - Lesson plan

We were sticking with the short /a/ sounds this week.  That is the beginning sound in the word "apple".  We stayed away from the long /a/ sound like in "acorn".   It is way to confusing to introduce all those sounds at once to little ones. How to decode our weekly plan-  (2)- Things I have planned for my two year old (4)- Things I have planned for my four year old Yellow- Things to print out (some black and white that students will either cut or color, and some color printed items that I have laminated and ready to use year after year) Green- Activities that will need some prep time or prep materials.   My Aa Pinterest Board Our Aa Lesson Plan (complete with project pictures and links) All of our Letter A activities  Our Weekly Plan-...

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