Letter of the Week ~~ P

This week we worked on the the Letter P.  Again, it was the letter Hayden chose.  So I picked out a few of his books that had the letter P in them.

We started with Barney Goes to the Pet Shop.  As we read, we read about lots of "P"ets!!  We talked a little about each one and where they lived and what they ate.  Then after we finished the book, we went back and listed all the Pets that Barney, Baby Bop, and B.J. saw at the Pet Shop.  We listed (I wrote...with a little help from Hayden..lol!) them all down.  Then we also talked about Barney being "P"urple.

Then we read Blue's Perfect Present. As I was reading this to Hayden I was trying to think about what activity we could do with afterward (love my plan on the run mentality??)  I noticed that there were many, many words that began with "p" in the book, so I decided to have Hayden go back and help me find them, since he was already recognizing the letter "p" pretty well.  So here is our list of "p" words:

On Thursday, we had decided to read the classic story The Three Little Pigs.  I actually didn't have the book, but found a cool online version here.  This way were able to take our pig puppets (here is the download for the pig puppet) and act the story out, which Hayden LOVED doing!!  I would suggest making a wolf puppet too (here is a link to one) because Hayden loved to act out huffing and puffing of the wolf!!  This was a fun activity and Hayden has been able to recite a lot of the story back to me...again and again and again!!  Seriously though since we read it last week, several times we have run across the story somewhere else and he has recognized it, so I was thrilled at his recall memory (is that even a term??  haha)