L Week

Learning about the letter L turned out to be quite long and drawn out.  My goal was to accomplish L week just before taking our Christmas break; however, we were so busy that we only did two days worth before we were completely taken over by the holiday craziness.  We finished up the last three days in the beginning of January and are thankfully back on track now!  Sometimes things just don’t go as you plan!  At least we finally did get through all of the planned letter L activities - even if it did take us several weeks!

The first day Brooklyn glued together her lighthouse.  We talked a little about what lighthouses do and used flashlights to shine light around a dark room.  We also talked about the sound that the letter L makes (which has always been tricky for Brooklyn).  

The second day we talked about ladybugs.  Brooklyn had fun making her ladybug craft; she especially enjoyed using a q-tip to make black dots on her ladybug’s back.  We played the ladybug math game from the letter I week (Tuesday) to practice counting and number recognition.  

The third day we talked more about light.  We sang “This Little Light of Mine” lots of times and even used a flashlight to wave around as we sang.  Since we did not do this lesson until after Christmas, we talked about all of the Christmas lights that we had seen and how they made light outside when it was dark.  We also talked about shadows and how they appear when things block the light.  For our craft, we made shadow drawings.  I held up a flashlight and random objects to make shadows on a piece of paper.  Brooklyn used a pencil to trace the outline of the objects.  

The fourth day was focused on leaves.  The Little Leaf Song was fun to sing and a great way to practice subtracting!  Brooklyn really enjoyed our craft.  I cut some leaves from one of our bushes which she used as a paintbrush to paint a picture.  

On the last day we learned about Daniel in the lion’s den.  After reading the story from the Bible, Brooklyn made her craft.  She started by drawing Daniel on a piece of brown construction paper.  (She has recently started drawing people - mostly faces.)  Then she used an orange marker to color three yellow cupcake liners to make lions.  I helped her by drawing lion faces in each cupcake liner.  She then glued each one onto the paper around Daniel.  The story of Daniel really demonstrates the verse for the week.  Although he wasn’t suppose to pray to God, Daniel continued to let his light shine!

For details and instructions of these crafts and activities, please click to see my lesson plans. If you have more ideas for the letter L, please comment and share - I would love to hear them!!