Home school Part2

For part 2 I want to focus on reading. As of right now I am using Phonics and the concepts in the book Ordinary Parents Guide to teaching reading I supplement these lessons with Art activities.




Currently Lily loves puppets so we create a puppet for each letter of the alphabet(Alley the Alligator)using templates from DLTK. I also love the No Time for flashcard. She has great art activities for kids of various ages and also does a craft for each letter of the alphabet. In addition,I also love the following websites for inspiration:

1+1+1=1

Totally Tots

As mentioned in my previous posts I also use the literacy resources from Hubbard's Cupboard

To reinforce the concepts of Phonics and letter recgonation we will play games outdoors. One of Lily's favorite activites is to create Sidewalk paint and write her letters and then I usually shot a letter or sound and she steps on the letter.

As a review I use simple poems/ or ryhems such as these to have Lily cirlce the letter being focused on and as she does she practices the sound they make. I also complete a directed draw activity based on the poem.. In wich I draw and lily copies.



Ranibow Letters is also another fun activity. In this activity Lily takes a coloring page and traces it with different coloring crayons from her coloring box.

I also plan on implementing lap books from 1+1+1=1