Welcome to Week 22 of Freedom Homeschooling’s Letter of the Week preschool curriculum!

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Week 22: Letter R Activities

Week 22 of our Letter of the Week preschool curriculum focuses on the letter R and the number seventeen. In Week 22, your child will learn about rain, rainbows, recycling, and more. This week also reviews colors. 

Letter R Activities: Day 1

• Sing the alphabet song with your child.
• Learn about the letter R on Starfall. On each screen of this interactive activity, your child will need to click the letter R, wait for the animation to play, or complete the activity to get the green arrow to appear. Then, he/she will click the green arrow to go to the next screen.
• Show your child how to write an upper and lowercase R, and have him complete the worksheet on page 106 of the workbook.
• Watch Row Row Your Boat. Encourage your child to sing along.
• Optional: Choose an activity, a recipe to prepare together, or a snack from the list of additional activities near the end of this page.

Letter R Activities: Day 2

• Watch Row Row Your Boat and sing along.
• Watch Captain Seasalt and the ABC Pirates “R” Island cartoon.
• Show your child how to write the number 17. On workbook page 107, have him/her trace the 17s and use a dot marker to mark seventeen boxes in the ten frames. You may want to place something under the worksheet to protect your table, because the dot markers tend to soak through paper.
• Practice counting to seventeen with your child using blocks, beads, or other household objects.
• Read Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter on pages 153 through 160 of Child-Library readers: Book Two.
• Optional: Choose an activity, a recipe to prepare together, or a snack from the list of additional activities near the end of this page.

Letter R Activities: Day 3

• Watch Row Row Your Boat and sing along.
• Read Who Likes the Rain?, adapted from the poem by Clara Doty Bates, to your child. You will find the book listed under “2nd and 3rd Grade Books.” It’s a PDF download.
• On workbook page 108, help your child trace and write the letter R. Read the words under the pictures to him/her.
• Watch Recycling Monkey: Curious George to learn about recycling.
• Optional: Choose an activity, a recipe to prepare together, or a snack from the list of additional activities near the end of this page.

Letter R Activities: Day 4

• Watch the Letter R Song by ABCmouse.
• Watch Auntie read Come on Rain by Karen Hesse.
• On workbook page 109, help your child trace and write 17s and place seventeen stickers on the worksheet.
• Practice counting to seventeen with your child using blocks, beads, or other household objects.
• Watch Row Row Your Boat and sing along.
• Optional: Choose an activity, a recipe to prepare together, or a snack from the list of additional activities near the end of this page.

Letter R Activities: Day 5

• Watch Ms. Yes read Raindrops to Rainbow by John Micklos, Jr. This book reviews colors.
• Read or listen to the Crayon Poem by James Carter. The text version of the poem is below the audio player.
• On workbook page 110, read the color words to your child and help him/her color the rainbow the correct colors.
• Watch Row Row Your Boat and sing along.
• Optional: Choose an additional activity, a recipe to prepare together, or a snack from the list below.

Additional Letter R Activities

• Writing- Have your child practice writing the letter R or the number seventeen with his/her finger in a tray of sand, rice, or dried beans.
• Arts and crafts- rainbow collage or cotton ball rabbit craft
• Science- walking rainbow experiment, grow rainbow crystals, or rainbow-colored nature scavenger hunt
• STEM- rainbow stacking stones or build recycled robots
• Field trip- recycling center, railroad museum, ranger station at a park, or a river
• Recipe- rainbow fruit salad or ham and cheese roll-ups (Alternately, you could call any type of pinwheel or wrap a roll-up.)
• Snacks- raspberries, raisins, rice cakes, or rice pudding

Letter Q Review

If your child has completed all the Week 22 activities, and time allows, you may want to spend some time reviewing Week 21, which covered the letter Q. However, if you do not get a chance to review Week 21, it is okay. Week 25 of the Letter of the Week preschool curriculum will review weeks 20 through 24.

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Build a Home Library

If you would like to buy any of the books from this week’s video read alouds, you can use these links to find them on Amazon.

• Come on Rain by Karen Hesse
• Raindrops to Rainbow by John Micklos, Jr.

Supply Reminder

Remember to look ahead to Week 23, decide which activities you would like to do with your child, and make sure you have the necessary supplies on hand.