Weekly Curriculum

Monday: Number Plates & Pom poms

Tuesday:  Toothpick Styrofoam and Sticker Letters

Wednesday: Toilet Paper Caterpillar

Thursday:  Repeats of Number Plates/Pom poms

Friday: Repeats of Toothpick Styrofoam and Sticker Letters

Monday: Number Plates & Pom Poms

 

Today we worked with numbers.  I drew the numbers 1-5 on a paper plate.  I also drew on the corresponding number of dots.  Then I had Nico place a pom pom on each dot as we counted.  Afterwards, we put the pom poms under the plates and counted them as he discovered them.  We also talked about the colors of the pom poms.  We are going to keep this one out all week to play.

Tuesday:  Toothpick Styrofoam and Sticker Letters

This activity was a huge hit!!!  I drew dots in the shape of the letter "A" (letter of the week) on a small piece of Styrofoam using a Sharpie.   Then Nico had to put a toothpick in each of the dots.  This activity was not easy for him, but he was really concentrating and trying to get it right.  It took a lot of fine motor skills.  We will definitely be working on this more in the weeks to come. 

 

I picked up small letter stickers from Target on clearance for $.99.  Nico loves stickers, and I wanted to use these as an assessment for him to see which letters he can easily identify, and which need more work.  This was trickier than I thought because the letters were so small.  Again, it took a lot of fine motor skills.  We went through about half of the alphabet before he got sick of it.  It think it was just too much concentration for one session.  We did this and the above activity back to back.  Together we spent about an hour of really focused time.  I will be coming back to this activity as well.

Wednesday: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

This was a super cute idea we did at art group this week.  First we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.  Then we glued healthy foods to a toilet paper roll that was cut into pieces.  Then we decorated them with markers.  We threaded ribbon through some paper puncher holes, to string them together.  We added some googly eyes, and we had a neat caterpillar.  Too cute!