Raising Rock Stars Preschool ~ Letter Ii
~ Krash is currently 4 years, 1 month old ~
This is the main section of our preschool posts-focusing on what we do for our Raising Rock Stars Preschool Curriculum. I am not sharing photos of each part every week, just what I happen to catch! We do the entire unit even if I don’t show it here in the photos!
Our Letter this week was Ii, our verse: I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13.
Here Krash is pointing to our letter of the week, we point to things a lot.
He always loves cutting his long Bible verse out. 
This week he made a belt out of it after we measured it against him. 
I had a feeling he would enjoy the “Strong Man” craft and I was right. Anything with muscles is a big hit in this guy’s eyes.
We got out his notebook and reviewed all of his vocabulary cards. Already , after just 4 units, he loves looking back through his notebook. I designed this program with reinforcement in mind, so that a review is happening often. Getting the notebook out is a perfect way to do this.
The PowerPoint lessons also provide a great review at the end of each show, going back over the basic skills and verses from the previous units. Krash has a new favorite portion of the show, counting the shapes. In this portion of the show, he pushes a button and the rectangles flash one at a time to practice counting. He has learned how to push the back arrow to make it repeat ;-), he loves it!
You can download the entire letter Ii unit here.
A note about future units…my plan is to release a new printable unit every week or so, with a few breaks this summer. I will only be posting a new unit as we complete it, so they will not be coming out every week. We do school in the summer, just not everyday, so some weeks will will complete an entire unit-some we wont. I will only have a preschool post when we complete an entire unit.
{A few things that were in his preschool workboxes for the week, not all activities are pictured}
We will be incorporating a few letter of the week activities to correspond with our letter. This week I had Krash do a letter Ii sort. Instead of laminating the items, I printed on fast draft and just had him glue them on.
He also glued the correct number on to the leaf…
He worked on a 24 piece puzzle, with some help...
He worked on his color puzzles, a few each day…
This is where I share the 3 special open-ended toys that were in our Star Boxes for the week.
Krash loves his Wedgits!
Also in Star Boxes this week: Automoblox, & Aquadoodle. See more open-ended preschool learning toys here.
Krash got a new game for his birthday that has been on our wish list for awhile, Super WHY ABC. 
We loved it! If your preschooler enjoys Super Why, I highly recommend it. It is a bit too advanced for Krash at age 4, but he enjoyed it and we helped him when necessary. You can see below the categories of questions for each character to see what I mean.
Skills we focused on while playing…
- taking turns, and what was involved in your turn {spinning, finding the correct character card, moving spaces, etc.}
- identifying upper and lower case letters. The Alpha Pig cards focused on this and K could do those on his own.
- counting 1-4 and identifying #s 1-4 {the spinner featured these numbers}
- for Krash-getting help when needed, for Pac Man-being patient when helping ;-)
- dealing with defeat, and how to be a good loser ;-)
I play alone with Krash on day 1, with the boys together on day 2, and then they play alone {with me supervising close by} after that. See more of our favorite preschool games here.
This is where I share games, toys, and life experiences that occur outside of our planned preschool time.
Krash asked to play Starfall a lot! I love that he is able to navigate around mostly by himself now!!!
He also got out his Leapfrog Fix the Mix toy a lot. I played with him tons and he got really good at it!
More Preschool Links…
- Raising Rock Stars Preschool Home
- Raising Rock Stars Sample Lesson Page
- Preschool Printables
- Preschool Tools Store
- Behind the Scenes ~ Preschool Workboxes
Be sure to visit Preschool Corner to see all of the other amazing home-preschool moms!
Do you have a blog post featuring this unit-RRSP Letter Ii? Link your exact post below, choose a thumbnail showing the program in action for your link!
Labels: Krash, Preschool, Raising Rock Stars Preschool
posted by Carisa | 8:50 AM
16 Comments:
Is there a printable or a link for your vocab cards? I searched around your blog and couldn't find one.
I ordered All About Spelling through your sidebar link, so I hope you get credit for it. I've had a chance to look over it and it looks WONDERFUL! Thanks for the recommendation because I had never heard of it and it fits my teaching style.
THANKS! You'll love it! Best spelling method/program I have seen!
This is a great week, and I also liked the last photo a lot. I was wondering if you are doing anything special for writing at this point or postpone it for later?
Visiting from Preschool corner. Great week. I love the caterpillar and leaves. Thanks for sharing.
You mentioned that he reviewed his vobabulary cards - where would I find those?
They are in the pdf files for each unit in Raising Rock Stars Preschool.
I have never heard of the Super Why game. Selena would have loved that game! Super Why is the cartoon that helped to reinforce her abc's and early phonics when she was about 1.5 to 2 yrs old. Now she is off to Boggle Jr. By the way I think it is great about your members only section! Great going!
They are included in with entire PDF download for the unit, the link is in the post ;-)
Where are the pdf files?
I knew I had seen those Wedgits on your blog so when I ran across some tonight at a secondhand store (for $5!) I grabbed them! I am excited to see what my kids think of them. Thanks for always having the best ideas!
WOW!!! That's an awesome deal!!!!
Finished Letter I last week. Here's all the fun stuff we did...I guess linky is closed, but I just wanted to share. =) http://melodysadventures.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/raising-rock-stars-preschool-letter-i/
It wasn't supposed to be close, woops! I went in and opened it and added your link! Thanks for sharing!!!!! ;-)
Thanks!
I am so glad you are using RRSP! She has grown up so much! I opened the linky up, I thought I extended all of them but looks like I forgot a few!
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