Quite the Week with Q!

I can't believe we just finished up a week on the letter Q! Nine more weeks and we will have made it through the alphabet! Today, I worked on assembling a binder of all of Ava's work over the last several months. It was fun to see her work with letter A and compare it to her work with letter Q! She has grown a lot. 

As far as letter Q goes, this week we focused on Q is for quilts. Below are pictures of the activities we worked on throughout our three days of preschool. Except for the projects, most activities were used daily. So, instead of breaking up this blog into three parts, I will just clump it all together. 

Books: 

Quilt Alphabet By: Lesa Cline-Ransome

The Quilt By: Ann Jonas

The Patchwork Quilt By: Valerie Flournoy 

This activity was a letter Q quilt puzzle. Ava needed to match lower case and upper case q's as well as match shapes to create a quilt. This idea came from This Reading Mama. 

We played a game to work on  reviewing letters and numbers. Ava stood at the top of the stairs. I showed her a flash card of a number 0-15. If she identified the number correctly she got to take a step down. The goal is to make it to the bottom of the stairs. We did the same activity with letters. I showed her a flashcard of a letter A-Q. She had to tell me the name of the letter and the sound or sounds that the letter made. It is such a simple game. She loved it! I found this on the blog Confessions of a Homeschooler. 

Ava and Dominic both took turns at the easel painting the capital letter Q using Q-tips.

At the beginning of the year, I was really good about changing out our sensory table. Once I put cornmeal in it, I decided that it was kind of a pain to take out so it stayed there for a while. I finally switched it back to beans and added heart gems and little heart boxes since Valentine's Day is right around the corner. It has been a big hit! 

A fun surprise sensory activity we got to do this week was play with snow! Real snow!  I find that having 3 small children pretty much keeps me out of the loop on what is going on in the world...weather included. So, I was surprised the other day when it started snowing and actually accumulating. Since there wasn't enough time to get everyone bundled before dinner, I just brought the snow in the house. It was the good sticky kind! All three kids ( okay me too) were entertained with this for a long time. 

Ava made a lower case q "quilt". 

This week we worked on numbers 15 and 16 in the Disney workbook. 

We brought out all of our quilts and talked about the meaning behind them and  looked for patterns. All three of the kids  have been given a special quilt from their Grandma. We talked about the colors in each quilt and found the patterns too. Their Aunt Staci made a neat tee-shirt quilt for Kyle. We had fun talking about what kind of tee-shirt each of the squares used to be. 

Ava went on a capital and lower case Q hunt. As she found the  letter Q, she stamped it out with her dot paint.  

There wasn't any other way to read our quilt stories except cuddle up in the quilts! 

Our neighbor, Miss Susie, is a quilter. She shared some of her scraps from quilts she  has made.  Ava created her own quilt (decorative of course). She started by exploring different ways she could make her quilt on a 9 block quilt pattern I made for her. She came up with probably 4 different ways before settling on how it would be! 

She glued her quilt squares together and then (using her  own sewing needle!) laced around the edges.  

Our math activity this week was sequencing numbers 0-15 into a "quilt" strip.  

Talking about quilts prompted some fun imaginative play this week. We went on picnics and took our quilts along to serve as our picnic blankets. The kids also had fun making cozy beds using their quilts.