Letter R

We finished up R today (we paused and did Thanksgiving and Christmas folders/activities in the middle of R) We did a rocket craft then used the Rocket song off of PBS kids to "Zoom" the rocket all over the place. In case you can't read it, the song goes:

We're rockets, zooming around, zooming through outer space. We're rockets, roaming around, roaming all over the place.

Under the rocket is our rice R's. We did this one following the rainbow R's (seen below) and Savannah liked the idea so much that she wanted to make these rainbow colored too. So we dyed the rice with food coloring and talked about mixing colors in order to get what we needed from the primary colors..... Lots of Fun!

Savannah proud of her colored rice. Here are the Rainbow R's that we made out of construction paper. Savannah took strips of paper and glued it on to a white sheet of paper and I cut out the shape after the colors were on. Much easier. (Found it on another blog so don't give me credit...It's from No Time for Flashcards.) Above is also our Rabbit R, which I also found on the other blog.... cut but harder for Savannah as it required more fine motor for the tiny pieces.....

These are in that bag at the top of the folder. I laminated the raindrops using clear packing tape, in three different sizes, and we tried a patterning activity. Savannah didn't get it at first, but started doing better towards the end. We read Drip Drop and Raindrop Plop! to go along with the raindrops activity too. Savannah loved it.

Every letter I have large letters for Savannah just to color by herself. This time we cut them out and used rainbow colors in the leftover cutouts to make these r's. Though not notebook worthy, they did turn out pretty cool. I especially like the lowercase r.

Savannah has asked to move on to letter L, so here we come lollipops and licorice! Hmmm, what else starts with L?

Printables and ideas found at No Time For Flashcards and here (adapted for lowercase), PBS Kids, and from raindrop punches.