1st day of preschool!
Raquelle turned 2 1/2 on Friday! That's the age that they moved kids into my preschool class at ABC Learning Center, so I decided to start preschool this week. I kept all of my curriculum from when I worked there so I spend the weekend putting together this weeks lesson plans. She had a blast coloring with markers for the first time, tracing her letter A (with help) and matching pictures. She is actually starting out quite a bit ahead of most of the kids when they first moved into my class. Thanks to the letter factory DVD Aunt Krista gave us, she can recognize all of her letters and knows their sounds already! (Titus is starting to catch on to them too).
When we went outside to play, she pointed at a letters on the label of my lawn chair and said "M! M say mmmm, A! A say aaaa! C! C say Ke" I told her that's right and worked with her to sound out the word "MAC" on the label. Later, when I was reading her a book, I saw the word cat and thought we would try again. I asked her what the C says and she got it right, when I got to a, she was totally convinced that the lower case a was a Q. I could not convince her that the a was an A and not a Q. She told me "no, silly mama, that Q. Q say quack!" I moved onto the t and asked her what t says. Her response was "OH NO! That t broke!" I'm assuming that was because it was a lowercase t instead of the capital T she was use to seeing. So we gave up on sounding out cat for today. We will try again in a couple months. Since she knows her letters and sounds now (the capitals at least), I'm hoping we can start sounding out simple 2 and 3 letter words by the end of this school year!
When we went outside to play, she pointed at a letters on the label of my lawn chair and said "M! M say mmmm, A! A say aaaa! C! C say Ke" I told her that's right and worked with her to sound out the word "MAC" on the label. Later, when I was reading her a book, I saw the word cat and thought we would try again. I asked her what the C says and she got it right, when I got to a, she was totally convinced that the lower case a was a Q. I could not convince her that the a was an A and not a Q. She told me "no, silly mama, that Q. Q say quack!" I moved onto the t and asked her what t says. Her response was "OH NO! That t broke!" I'm assuming that was because it was a lowercase t instead of the capital T she was use to seeing. So we gave up on sounding out cat for today. We will try again in a couple months. Since she knows her letters and sounds now (the capitals at least), I'm hoping we can start sounding out simple 2 and 3 letter words by the end of this school year!
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