Learnin' those kids somethin'

Lately we've been doing some teaching and learning at home. And by "lately" I mean we have done 3 lessons, including 2 letters. And the second letter we started today. But I plan to keep it up. It's more of an activity for when we don't go to school for longer periods, than a scheduled class plan.

**I just remembered that we also did a Valentine's theme. So that's 4.

So, we started with the short "a" sound, combining English and Inuktitut.

The activities that we did with this included the prerequisite apple picture, with printing practice:

and the most all-encompassing activity I may ever come across - well, actually do, anyway.

These are, of course, paper chains with an Anchor at the end. First they decided on what pattern they were going to make by colouring lines on paper. The green links on Logan's chain and the yellow links on Liam's chain are the days of the week (in both languages). So, while they were following their pattern, and manipulating the strips of paper to make the chain, we were reviewing the days. They had previously coloured and cut out the anchors. Then they printed the word "anchor" to accompany the chain. Is that anything short of awesome?!

As a bonus, now that we have anchors on the wall, we can build on that with boats, octopus, water.... and fish. Which brings us to our new letter.