Kk is for Kite

Kk is for KITE!!

Spring is finally here and of course with that comes the blustery, windy days just perfect for flying a kite.

(this is from makinglearningfun.com)

I found some really cute tracing pages from Confessionsofahomeschooler

She's got an entire pre-k letter of the week printable curriculum on her blog and we've been blessed to enjoy.

I borrowed this idea from makinglearningfun.com and just made my own kites from colored paper. As you can see, my little preschooler loved clipping on the clothes pins to make tails on her kites.

Ok, I've tried three times to get this the right way, I don't think my computer likes me today....I know I've done this correctly before, but for some reason, it keeps appearing sideways. But this is the inside of her lapbook
She did tracing pages from first-school.ws and I found a couple of cute mini-books with a kite theme. My favorite is the elephant and kite one below. 'The kite in the wind goes Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh...all day long.'

See the elephant book? So cute, right?!! I made a pocket to hold her mini-books and a pocket for her tracing pages and kite counting too. We made the Roll-a-Kite from Confessions of a homeschooler too--BIG HIT!!

More Mm is for mittens

Here is the inside of our Mitten lapbook.

From Jan Brett's website: We made a large mitten pocket and the animals to put inside to re-tell the story.

Mm tracing from First-School

She used her blocks to add her mitten math.

I cute out a mitten shape from our plastic canvas so she could practice sewing and lacing.

Remeber those mitten templates I was going to use? Well, here they are! Different colors for a review activity of some of the recent letters we've done. I had her match the capital and lower-case letters and then practice the sound, and say a word or two for each letter.

Mitten Measuring from Hubbards Cupboard

Mitten ABC match. The printable book is from Childcareland.com. I printed it in mini-book size and had my preschooler match the printed alphabet with some ABC stickers I bought at Walmart. One of her favorite activities!

This was alot of fun for my preschooler. You know it's a great learning experience when your little one keeps bringing out her finished lapbook to do the activities over and over again! Now if only it would SNOW!!!!

Mm is for Mittens

Preschool is such a wonderful time of exploration and discovery. It is my favorite age! The tender love of learning is so easy to squelch by demanding our tiny ones to learn facts, drill, write, read at above age levels all before they are ready. I always urge moms beginning to homeschool their children this age not to be intimidated by other parents who push their own children to be super-geniuses by age four. Take your time and enjoy the sweet moments of cuddling on the couch with a stack of good books or make some playdough together and spend the day creating critters, shapes and 'cookies'.

My preschooler and I are sailing through a letter of the week curriculum that is free at Letter Of the Week. We began at letter Aa and have done several in order. We are taking a little break this week to do a more Five In A Row style study of Jan Brett's The Mitten. I thought it would be a good week to do letter Mm as well.

Here are some free resources for putting together your own Mitten study:

Jan Brett's home page has tons of free printables for the book


Homeschoolshare has a free lapbook and lesson plan page! This will be what I'll use for the bulk of our study

First-school has great letter printables for Mm and on their mitten page, there are a few printables of pairs of mittens that I will use for a couple of different activities--listed below.

Childcare Land has a freebie section with some cute mitten file folder games. You have to scroll down the list to find them, but they are cute and definitely worth it!

I'm going to take one of the printables of a pair of mittens and make lacing cards with them. First print them on card stock, then punch holes around the edges, then have my preschooler lace them up. I also plan on taking another plain mitten pair print out and make a matching game with shapes or colors--maybe both!

Let the Mitten fun begin!