Z is for Zebra & Zacchaeus

This week I started week 1 of reading skills with Captain Rex. We also continued our LOTW curriculum.

Our Letter this week was Z

Z is for Zebra

printables from Confessions of a Homeschooler

Z Do-A-Dot using our Do-A-Dot Markers

Cutting practice

Zebra size sorting

making letter Z with playdoh

Little Thomas is a mess!

Captain Rex made a zero on his own

Z poke page

Z writing practice

Z coloring page

Letter Z hunt using our Do-A-Dot Markers

Zebra lacing card

I didn't get any action pictures of these activites....

Zebra letter match

Roll A Zebra

Phonics blend ladder

Letter Z with cheerios and glue

Little Thomas does not lack any confidence in his abilities!

 It is so cute to watch him celebrate even the smallest accomplishments. :)

Z is for Zacchaeus

printables form Raising Rock Stars Preschool at 1+1+1=1

Letter Z writing practice

Memory verse cut & tape

Measuring his verse

We listened to our Zacchaeus song a ton of times this week, even in the car.

I even heard the boys singing it in their room. :)

Our sight word and reader

Cut and paste

We also read the story of Zacchaeus in The Beginner's Bible

Letter Z on Starfall.com

Our Letter Z bag...not much in there huh? I am going to have to work on it ;)

We read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and added letter Z to our tree!

We have already started on our next preschool lessons on Birds and have a new sensory bin to go along with it. I will post on that soon!

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Reading Skills Week 1

Captain Rex will be 5 this July and we have started working on his reading skills!

Here's what we worked on for week 1...

Our Sight Word Caterpillar (adorable idea from The Moffatt Girls)

Our words this week were

a, and, the & see

Captain Rex practiced his cutting skills on this word family activity from Musings of Me.

I quickly realized that he has not mastered letter sounds yet so we are going to slow down on the word families next week until we catch up on reviewing letter sounds.

We went through unit 1 of the You Can Read program from 1+1+1=1

to work on our 4 sight words.

 He glued cheerios to 2 of his words.

Sight word puzzles

We definitely need a pocket chart like Carisa on 1+1+1=1 uses!

Sight word search

using Do-A-Dot Markers

He got a little confused about the word "a" vs. the letter a

connect the sight words

connect the dots

sight word coloring

We might skip this one next week because Captain Rex did not like it all.

He doesn't like not getting to pick his own colors! :)

Erasing the sight words as I called them out...

He even practiced writing the words himself which I didn't

 get a picture of but I was impressed that he even remembered the correct spelling!

Find the sight words

This was great practice for "reading" the sight words in a sentence.

He decided against the cheerios for his other 2 sight words and asked to trace them instead.

Here is our word wall :)

These are our spring words from DLTK

I hung them together using Link 'N' Learn Links

I am so excited about working with him over the upcoming months on sight words, phonics and word families! This is my first time teaching someone to read and I am so grateful for all of the wonderful resources I have found from other blogging mommies!

I ordered this video to brush up on letter sounds which will also be perfect for Little Thomas!

LeapFrog: Letter Factory

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