Letter A–Summer Mode

We are officially in summer mode which means we will put a pause on our letter-of-the-week stuff (we’ll pick it back up again in the fall) and just do some fun themes and other activities.  We did do a little bit of letter A review but mostly just had fun..

Since “A is for Astronaut,” I put together this fun sensory bin filled with our Moon Sand, this toob, rocks, glow-in-the-dark stars, and beads.

We read this awesome book to go along with it!

I switched out her rice box and filled it with Aa’s and anything I could find that started with A.

She got creative and used brother’s Potsy toy to transfer the rice into..

And then served me some “letter A soup.”

I hid some jewels inside her Play-Doh for her to find (she picked black and white this time). 

Then she balanced the jewels on a craft stick with stickers on it.  This was more challenging than I thought it would be!

She rolled the Play-Doh into a snake and then I gave her her scissors to practice cutting with.  Love this activity!

She thought it was cute that she made a bunch of “people.”  She’s pointing to the baby, of course.

Then she wanted to do the same with the black Play-Doh.  You better believe we talked about skin tones ; )

I put a small paper clip on each of her vocabulary words and she used her fishing pole to fish them up!  She loved this.

She watched letter Aa on Starfall.

We painted on watercolor paper using colored ice cubes!  Fun!

I put our foam letters (A-M) in a bug catcher (from Target dollar spot a while ago).  She had to close her eyes (she loves this), pick one out, tell me what it is, practice the sound it makes, and then find the corresponding flash card laid out on the ground.  She had lots of fun with this game!

All matched up!

I got these cute little ring toss games at the Target dollar spot recently (I may have bought one in almost every color). 

I was saving this puzzle for a unit on the body, but a babysitter came over and found it.  She has not stopped asking for it.  She LOVES it.

We did some tracing..

Using our Kumon Workbook (inside a sheet protector).

She did really well with this.

And diligently erased her work when she was done!

I found these plastic nuts and bolts at the Target dollar spot recently (love that place).

She struggled with these a bit, good fine motor practice!

I tried to get her to lace these ABCs..

But she preferred to line them up instead : )