LOTW-Letter A with Tert and Stella

Hello to Alma Mater's Readers!
I am finally ready to post our first LOTW (Letter-of-the-Week.)
First let me give credit to Erica at: http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com . She created the printouts and the whole LOTW curriculum is on sale at her site for $10 for ALL the letters of the alphabet! (This is for the download version. You can also get it on a CD that Erica will mail to you, but that's slightly more expensive.) It's a great curriculum, and we would recommend it-but first let me say: you should find some good cutters. (Many, many thanks to E for her help with the cutting! Couldn't have done it without you cuz!) :-) The printouts require quite a bit of patience, but the result is great.
Each letter takes one week to complete. The curriculum comes with a schedule (verrry helpful!) ;-)
Anyway, I'll quit talking about the curriculum and post some pictures instead! So-without further ado: LOTW-Letter: A!

We started out with the memory verse of the week: 'All have sinned; we all fall short of the glory of God.' He had this down pat by day 3!-well except for the verse part. Instead of 'Romans 3:23' he would say: 'Romans 3: Romans 3.' Oh well :-)

 Next it was time for shape cards...

Then we did tracing. I finally got him to understand 'Uppercase' and 'Lowercase.' ;-)

Then we did our giant floor numbers. These were so fun! I called out a number and helped him jump to the right number!

 Next came Tert's favorite: lacing! He did an amazing job...

Proud Boy!

 Tracing in his Pre-K Workbook...

Then we did magnets, putting one magnet on the top of the workpage and another one on the bottom. We kind of had to do makeshift magnets, but I'll be posting instructions on how to make 'Pom-Pom Magnets' for color sorting and Erica's LOTW Magnet Pages.

Then we did a puzzle (I don't know if you can tell, but what he is staring at is a 6-piece puzzle that he put together.)

 Next he did cutting...

...and he was very proud! 

Then he did this Letter A on the Geoboard all by himself!

 Next he did an A Poke-Page, poking the As with a skewer.  He loved it, but I had him do it on the carpet so that he wouldn't scratch our breakfast bar :P

Okay....

-Next he did this coloring page-

 And then came Do-A-Dot Markers...

...with the finished product! ;-) 

 He loved this activity! He took little squares with numbers on them and put them next to apple halves with a the same number of seeds in them :-)

Here he is...counting the seeds!

 Cut 'N Paste Page 

Finished!

 Then we did a Uppercase/Lowercase Letter Match...

Look at that huge binder! And it took two of those for the whole curriculum :-O Whoa...

Next we did his size sorting! He did this almost entirely by himself; I was very impressed!

 Workin' Hard!

Color Match; I cut these colored apples in half different ways (horizontally, diagonally, zig-zag) and he had to match them...

 Patternin'

So much work! He's goin' cross-eyed...

Shape Match! (Again, apples cut in half with matching shapes)

 Here is our LOTW Coconut Tree! It goes with the book Chicka Chicka-Boom-Boom! We read the Chicka Chick Boom-Boom book and then put the letter up on the tree.
*Note: This tree was made with posterboard and construction paper- construction paper for the coconuts-posterboard for the tree and leaves, and the letters are printed out on cardstock. Every time we learn a letter we'll put it up on the tree :-)

 Pinning up 'A'!

 Not too bad if I may say so myself! (Love his face!)

Tert is a wonderful student and I'm looking forward to the rest of the year! 

Great job Tert!