I am teaching young children again! Not my own children this time, but the children of a very good friend. See our original post about this adventure here. Each week I plan to share our plans, which I did for Letter Q here, and I also plan to share after our week is done so you can see my students in action!
Looking for Past Weeks?
- Letter A in Action
- Letter B in Action
- Letter C in Action
- Letter D in Action
- Letter E in Action
- Letter F in Action
- Letter G in Action
- Letter H in Action
- Letter I in Action
- Letter J in Action
- Letter K in Action
- Letter L in Action
- Letter M in Action
- Letter N in Action
- Letter O in Action
- Letter P in Action
I am excited to share all about our seventeenth week together, with a focus on the LETTER Q! In addition to a letter focus each week we do several other things, which I will also share with you. Since I only have my students two days a week {3 hours each day}, we cram a lot into a short time! I also provide their parents with activities to do at home.
We do a lot of our school at my dining room table, I love having early childhood activities there again!
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All About Reading Level 1
My students used All About Reading Pre-reading during the first half of the year and after using the placement test from AAR in December, I could see that they were ready to begin Level 1! One of my students is almost 5 and the other is almost 6, and they are academically typical for those ages. We do the same lessons together, but I expect different from each of them.
In addition to our All About Reading curriculum, we also use other resources to practice. Below you can see us using our Self-Correcting CVC Word Cards. They sound out the word and flip the card over to see the image.
Letter Q Fun
We enjoyed several different activities, most from my site! I will link everything we used below! These are the plans I share with their parents {and also use myself to keep on track}:
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Below you can see AK and Ki doing the following activities:
Raising Lil Rock Stars Letter Q
While the kids color I tell them the story and we review the items on the display board {shapes, colors, numbers}. They also do tracing at home for homework and take the verse bracelet home!
Letter Q Toys & Puzzles
I love setting up fun letter displays and playing with the items. See more ideas here!
The kids enjoy playing with the toys and reading the books. Another hands-on activity I have them do is bring in objects from home that begin with the letter we are studying. Each week I take a photo of them with the objects they bring in and then I edit it and we have a photo album of each letter! Here’s their letter Q photo:
Letter Q Books
We read tons of books featuring the Letter Q! See all of our Letter Q book ideas here!
You Can Read Word Family AP
We are using You Can Read Word Families in addition to our reading lessons. Word families are a great way to build confidence in reading CVC words. It also helps us review rhyming, and focus on word patterns. We are taking 2 weeks for each word family, this week we started the _ap family. These are the plans I share with their parents {and also use myself to keep on track}:
LOVE Theme
We did this unit in February so we had fun with some heart theme printables and activities! I based their math around this theme, so math is included below too! These are the plans I share with their parents {and also use myself to keep on track}:
All of the activities they did were from our LOVE Theme Kindergarten Pack.
