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c is for candlestick

i didn’t even realize that we had over 50 candlestick holders (i thought they were just random wood knobs, etc) in the box from the thrift shop. so i threw out the project plans i had and we decorated candlestick holders for our thanksgiving feast table. we colored them with crayons and painted them withContinue reading “c is for candlestick”

T + H is for THanksgiving

My own son, Micah, a first grader, thought since we didn’t have a letter of the week, i should teach the kids the chunk TH. good idea. for chunks and compound words, we use our fists and chant: this is T, this is H, pound them together TH (here we make the sound) in honorContinue reading “T + H is for THanksgiving”

l is for letter

i dabble in the handwriting without tears curriculum. mostly i am fascinated by the desire to make letter writing easily successful for children. one thing we do that is handwriting-withou- tears-ish is give craft sticks or wide gross grain ribbon strips to form the letters. here we have a 5 stick capital E:

t is for tree

techincally this should be a is for apple tree, but we make these trees for many reasons during a school year. one class made the trunk, one class made the leafy top, and then we added apple print apples. this was the first painting project of the school year. i intentionally gave brushes, but gaveContinue reading “t is for tree”

r is for rice bottles

my kids were glad to help drink 26 bottles of gatorade and vitamin water so i could have wider-mouth bottles. the preschoolers help me fill bottles with rice and then i hide something inside correlated to a letter. i tape the lid on with colored duct tape and write the letter on the lid. soContinue reading “r is for rice bottles”