A is for Airplane

This week is transportation week. I have been looking forward to this week for months now. There are so many cute ideas I have found on the internet. I can't wait to show you all I have found. 

I first taught Colton the letter A, and talked about how airplanes starts with A. I also asked him questions like:

* What Flies in the sky? (birds, airplanes, helicopters, hot air balloons, etc.)

*Who drives the airplane? (pilot)

*Where do you go to get onto a airplane? (airport)

After our short lesson on the letter A and Airplanes I gave Colton water colors and let him paint an A is for Airplane worksheet.

While his was painting I read him the book "The Noisy Airplane Ride" by: Mike Downs. This is a cute book that teaches all about how airplanes work and all their sounds. 

I found this cute Wooden Airplane Picture idea from Bright Hub that I knew Colton would love it, which he did. 

(Click here for tutorial)

I also found a fun song at the website Bright Hub about airplanes. Teach the children to sing this song while "flying" their airplanes. The tune is "I'm a Little Teapot."

I'm a little airplane, I can fly,

Here is my throttle, give me a try.

When I get all revved up, then I fly,

Off the runway and up to the sky.

I have prepared some fun transportation games (click on the word games to be taken to website to print them too) from Home School Creations for Colton to play with this week. Today he played the matching game. 

To finish off our fun day learning about airplanes we are going on a field trip to the airport so see airplanes when daddy gets home from work. 

C is for Cat

Materials:

C is for Cat Printable, printed

(Click here) 

Sleeping Cat Printable, printed on color paper
(you will need both templates)

(Template #)

(Template #2)

crayons

scissors

glue

white board with marker and eraser

Cookies Week by: Cindy Ward and Tomie dePaola  (or any book on cats) 

School started with a fun activity with our white board. I wrote the recent letters we have been working on along with words that started with the letters, and had Colton find the letter or word on the board. When he found the letter or word he had to say the letter and it's sound then he got to erase it. Colton had so much fun that he asked me to play it again. 

Next I talked about the letter "C" and had him help me come up with words that started with C. I made an special effect to point out that his name starts with C. Colton then colored the C is for Cat print out. 

We then read the book Cookies Week by: Cindy Ward and Tomie dePaola. This book is a great book for the little ones to learn about cats. 

(Click here for tutorial)

I found a sleeping cat template from First School that turned out to be a fun craft activity. Since there were many different shapes involved in this craft I used this activity as a review from our shape unit. 

                                                                                                 

 (Click here for tutorial and template)

I found this cute cat craft project from Danielle Place that I wanted to make today in school but I didn't have the paper plates that were required. I still wanted to share the idea since it is so adorable.

G is for Giraffe

Materials:

giraffe template, printed and cut out

(template )

a paper lunch bag

yellow construction paper

crayons

scissors

glue

(Click here for tutorial)

Colton had fun making this cute puppet. He hasn't been feeling well today so we just made it simple. The directions are for a more detailed puppet. 

Today I also taught Colton the letter "G." I printed out The G is for Giraffe coloring page in Oopsey Daisy's G is for Green Packet (Click here is download it.) I found for St. Patrick's Day.