His first Calvert lessons have him reviewing basic skills he is solid in, so we aren’t spending much time there right now. We are spending a majority of our time focusing on our You Can Read printables, which is challenging him at a perfect level. We are doing many other additional activities also and having a blast! Here’s a bit of the literacy fun we have had recently…
We worked with unit 5 from You Can Read, for about 2 weeks, he is actually still struggling with Down and here so we are taking some review time after this unit to solidify the words learned so far! 
This week he glued his words onto colored paper instead of making words in the pocket chart with these letters. He really enjoyed this as he loves glue! You can see I used our Education Cube to show him the word he was working on.
He colored his sight word color by # words…
Word shapes…
Play Dough Words…
Funny fonts, we used dot paint this time for a change…
Finding words in sentences…
I created the more add-ons to the You Can Read program {base printables are free once they are released on the blog, add-ons will only be in the ad-free/bonus section}, Assessments and Review BINGO!
I gave him the reading words assessment and it was nice to confirm which words he knows quickly and which he still struggles with. The full instructions of how I do my assessments is included in the PDF file, I explain it all there!
He LOVED the Review BINGO, and we took turns calling words-which was a great mix-up for the review.
Word Play is a BIG component to our Kindergarten learning, be sure to visit the main Word Play linky to see MANY ideas!
For a review, I pulled off all of his word wall words and put them in his workbox. He has to read each one and then put it under the proper letter on his word wall. This week I had him runt he length of the schoolroom in between each word! He had to run to get the word from me each time!
He continues to LOVE our easy readers, we are using First Little Readers, and Sight Word Readers. We are using Guided Reading strategies during this time, which you can read about here.
We also do phonics work and still use Bob Books for this. Calvert has an intense phonics portion to their Kindergarten, he is just not there yet in the lessons so we are supplementing.
This week we reviewed one of the books, by writing all of the words on his BatMan board first and then reading together. 
I noticed he was having a bit of trouble isolating sounds so I taught him to “peek-a-boo” the word. He used a marble and slowly pulled it to the side to reveal 1 letter at a time to sound out the word. This REALLY helped him. 
I taught him to look at the whole word first to see if it was a sight word and if not-he needed to play peek-a-boo with the word and break the sounds down.
We continue to follow the Calvert workbook and have finally hit new territory-geometric solids! The math workbook provided punch out shapes for me to make, so we used those. I also printed these geometric solids 3-part cards for him. I also found these awesome 3D shape printables after we were done!
We also reviewed patterns, which we will continue to explore further. The Preschool Packs have given him a solid foundation with patterning, so this was pretty easy for him!
Hands on, learning toys, games, computer, themes, and more. This is where I plan to share everything else he has been up to that I happen to capture! These are the “extra” things we do in addition to his direct instruction which you will see above.
We had LOADS of fun doing a combined Dragon-Castles-Vikings-Knights week. I even made NEW printables for my How to Train Your Dragon Preschool Pack!!!
He enjoyed the 3 part cards. He put the full cards in the mini pocket chart and then matched up the pictures and words to those…
The graphing game I added was HUGE hit, we played many, MANY times! I included a spinner too, but he preferred the cube-probably because he can throw it.
We did a ton of work from the Knights Preschool Pack!
3-part cards…
Rebus story, finding words…
Counting knights-which was way too easy,
so we added in some basic addition…
Clipping the beginning sound…
Rhyming words…
We had lots of hands on fun too, mostly with our double set of knights in a tube. Since we had 2 sets, we were able to play a matching game with them!
Coloring castles with Ladybug
One of the highlights for him was looking at real castles online. His new dream is to go to Germany {by chance most of the castles he really loved were in Germany} and tour REAL castles. Anyone in Germany want to host us?
A crown made with Zoobs…
It was a really fun theme week! Although I don’t have a photo, he helped me set up a theme corner-including his new Trio Castle-which he got recently for his birthday! Also in his corner were his many How to Train Your Dragon toys, also birthday gifts!
A few items we used…
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