The Letter Q

Today we learned about the letter Q. We first watched a video about the letter Q, I really liked this one. I will probably use these videos in the future for all my letters. I also drew a letter Q on the white board, well actually it was a Mrs. Q and her baby q. Mrs. Q asked Summer to draw a Q for her and she did. Then I got two flash cards, the letter W and the letter Q and made sure Summer knew the difference. I would hold one up and she had to quickly tell me the letter. Yesterday I cut out some letter Q's and W's and gave Summer a piece of paper, she had to glue the W's on the W side and the Q's on the Q side.



She had no problem with it so I am convinced she knows the difference, now if she will quit calling the letter W a Q we will be good to go.

We also made crowns for a queen out of toilet paper rolls. Then we painted the crowns with q-tips. Get it, Queen and Q-tips both start with the letter Q!


I also found 2 quarters and had Summer trace around it and rub it through the paper. Well, sorta, that was a little too hard but she had fun with it anyway.

I printed out a few Q worksheets, I found some new sites I like, the Nick Jr. site has some great alphabet packs, I really like how they print too.

Yesterday I gave Summer some homework. She wasn't that excited yesterday but this morning she actually finished tracing the W's. Since she did so well I gave her another worksheet for Q's to do today.

Overall I am happy with how school is going. I think I will do 2 letters a week and recap them on Friday. I am also doing a number a week, this week we are on the number 6. I am trying to get her to understand how a 6 and a 9 look the same. Most likely I will continue with 6 next week. We did some math with 6 earlier this week so I will focus more on writing the number 6 and counting with it.

I will admit this is much harder than I anticipated. I easily spend an hour or more getting ready for the next day. It will probably get easier the longer I do it. Let's be honest, her attention span is short, I have to make the activities quick and exciting or she loses interest. If we are lucky we get an hour in each morning but I try to continue the learning throughout the day. She also likes teaching me so I let her, which helps her learn too. As long as we are both having fun with it I will keep it going.