Reading the Alphabet: Letter Q {Lesson 21}

If you’re new to This Reading Mama, WELCOME!  This lesson is part of a FREE PreK curriculum called Reading the Alphabet that I am in the process of creating for my 4 year old son, who knows all his letters and sounds, but isn’t ready for a Kindergarten curriculum.  If you’re interested in seeing all the lessons, please click on the image above or HERE.  You can also follow along with my Reading the Alphabet Pinterest board, where I am pinning the lessons {starting at the beginning}.

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Last week, NJoy and I reviewed the letter Q and did activities with the word am.  It was fun helping him learn some new vocabulary, as he initially called the quarter a penny and the quail a bird!  By the end of the week, he had it. 😉 Here are just a few snapshots of his Q week.  He was back in full-swing, wanting to do everything I had planned; even asking for MORE work than I had!

Reading the Letter Qq Book and finding all the am‘s.

This week, he didn’t want to clip the syllables, so he picked out our 3-D shapes to place on the cards.

 

Making patterns with the Cut and Pattern Cards is usually one of his favorites.  He likes to take turns.  “Mommy, close your eyes and I’m going to start a pattern.  When I say ‘Ready’, you have to figure it out and finish the pattern.”  {My little teacher.}

 

The Quilt Tracer Page was a bit more challenging for him, but he stuck with it!

 

He really enjoys the Color by Sight Word pages, especially when his “friends” are cheering him on. 😉

 

He used glue and glitter to decorate his sight word this week.  I think he asked to do this every day.  Needless to say, I have glitter e.v.e.r.y.w.h.e.r.e.

I changed up his sight word search and sight word maze {to make them more challenging} this week and he LOVED it.  He was literally jumping up and down, squealing like a little pig when I set the maze in front of him.  I’m so glad that’s all it takes to please him. 🙂

Word Search: How many times can you find am?

Maze: get the queen to the quilt by following am through the maze.  He worked the maze and then wanted me to call out all the others words for him to find.  He created his own paths to each word and circled them.  His enthusiasm makes teaching so fun!

Another new thing I tried this week was a “Which One Doesn’t Belong?” activity, which replaced the initial sound sort {the original sound sort idea is still in the lesson outline}.  I want to keep working with him on this because it was definitely on his instructional level, although he needed a little more assistance than I thought he would.

I placed four pictures {from the Q lesson and previous lessons} on a row.  Three of the pictures started with the same letter sound and one was different.  We said each picture name together, while I really emphasized the beginning sounds like this: /b/-/b/ banana, /b/-/b/ bed, /b/-/b/ ball, /kw/-/kw/ quilt.  He used his finger pointer to point to the picture that didn’t have the same sound.

To download all of the activities and the 5-day lesson outline for Reading the Alphabet Letter Q, please click HERE.

I have thoroughly enjoyed hearing from those of you who are using this curriculum in the classroom or at home with your wee ones.  What a blessing to know that God can use me in this capacity.  It’s why I started blogging in the first place!

~Becky

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