Diving into sight words

So, we have officially started working on sight words. I'm so nervous for this transition. One of the only things I was worried about when we decided to home school was teaching Madison to read. Just thinking about it still makes me get worked up. The English language is so difficult, I know everyone has seen that poem where it talks about all the ways English is ridiculous. If not, here's a link to one article 21 Reasons why English sucks.

Anyways, back to us beginning our sight word units. First up... play-doh!!!

We use Preschool Prep, which is an awesome resource. I just picked 5 sight words to start with and I put the coloring sheets in page protectors. 

And then she formed each word with Play-Doh! 

After all five words were done we played some games. First up, she was behind each word and as I called each word out she would jump behind the word. 

The next game we played we spread the sheets out some and Madison would jump over each page while saying the word. Kind of like a sight word version of hopscotch! 

I made this awesome clip sight word activity that I found on Pinterest. I wrote each sight word on a popsicle stick And then put each letter on a separate clothespin.  

I laid this activity out and Madison jumped right in with no instruction! 

She was so proud finishing each word! 

Both of these ideas were super simple and a great way for us to start on sight words! I'm still extremely nervous to teach reading but, we're diving right in! 

Day 2 of letter B

First we read The Missing Beach Ball by Sonali Fry and finger painted a paper plate to look like a beach ball.

And here's the finished product hanging on our fridge. 

And then we moved on to an episode of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood on safety at the beach (s1e30). We then did some review from yesterday, she colored some more of her letter B coloring page. We finished up her bumblebee plate craft and buzzed on into the living room to watch an episode of Wild Kratts about bees (options include s1 ep 32, s2 ep 8, and s3 ep2.)

All we did was glue three black strips, a black stinger, two googly eyes, and some black pipe cleaner antenna on the yellow paper plate we painted yesterday. 

Here's the cute little guy all finished up. 

We moved onto reading Bunny Party by Rosemary Wells. We practice hopping like bunnies and went outside and fed/watered our bunnies (and spent some time pretending to be bunnies on her play set. Back inside to make our letter 'B' bunny.

No pictures of Madison putting this one together but, he's such a cute little bunny "B."

Of course, we finished up the day with some preschool worksheets.