Each week we have a
special "letter of the week".
During the week, we make crafts that feature the
letter of the week and practice the upper and lower cases of the letter.
WHAT WE DO - ACTIVITIES: In the summer or a
nice autumn day, take the opportunity to go fly kites. You can either make your own
(mine never fly that well *grin*) or go buy one at the store. Just make sure you're
flying in a safe (power line free) area.
You can also learn the "Let's Go Fly a Kite"
song from the Mary Poppins movie or the "Kite
Days" poem by Mark Sawyer.
WHAT WE DO - EXERCISE: OK, everyone's going to
think I'm odd for this one, but I was a relatively sedate person my whole life and I wish
now that I hadn't been. Therefore, I try hard to get the kids to "do as I say,
not as I did". In order to make exercise fun, we do some fairly odd things...
for the letter K, we decided we'd do our "home-made" version of karate.
This involves lots of kicking and punching at the air (er, it looks a bit like random
flailing to outside observers, but we have big imaginations) we also jump around, do
cartwheels and forward rolls. Just make sure you do it somewhere with lots of space
so no one (and nothing) gets injured... and you may want to hide the video camera before
you begin!
If Karate is too violent for you, you could pretend to be
kangaroos... this also ends up being quite the workout! |
