We have had a rough couple of nights at the old homestead. My daughter had been sick with a bad cold, fever & vomiting. Yesterday my husband & I stayed home from work with her. She was in good spirits and seemed to be on the mend. She was very excited to have us both home.
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We did a lot of snuggling and drew some pictures & colored. The other day Mai wrote the letter “T”. It was her first written letter. She was so proud & so were we. She held up her piece of paper & showed my husband & me. She beamed. Today in the midst of some of her drawings she made some more Ts. She has mastered the letter T now, but what about her other letters. T doesn’t want to stand alone. He wants his friends.
Lately she has been talking a lot about school. She throws on her backpack & tells me she is going to school on the school bus. She will kiss me goodbye & drive away on her little pink buggy. It is adorable.
Today, we took her role play a little further & had a mock classroom. She took the bus into school, walked into class & removed her backpack just in time for roll call. Today’s lesson…learning to trace our letters.
Laminated Tracing Cards
These were quick & easy to make. You can print out ABCs from your computer or write them out yourself. I did 3 letters per row. I added dash marks to the inside of the letters to give her a guide to trace.
Cut out a rectangle around each row of letters to form a card. Place each card into a laminating pouch or sheet & trim if needed. The laminating pouches come in different sizes. We used 3 1/2 X 5 1/2. We used a laminating machine, but you can find self-adhering laminating sheets or pouches at an office supply store.
This will create 9 cards total.
Class is now in session. I quickly showed Mai how to trace inside of the letters.
She jumped right into to each card and showed me what she could do. “Look Mama teacher. I traced it.”
She very carefully traced within each letter.
She was upset when she had realized that she used the brown marker instead of the pink. I showed her that she could just wipe the card clean with a tissue. She was happy to clean off the card & mark it again in the pink.
We had a great lesson today. She even taught her baby how to trace her letters.
I made a great discovery tonight as well. I found out that when I am mama teacher, she listens and follows directions much better. Our next lesson was cleaning up the classroom. All of her Legos & Play-doh cookie cutters were put back in their boxes without debate this evening. It was fabulous. Mama teacher will have to work on a potty training lesson next.
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Aww, totally looked like a successful lesson minus the brown marker, but still looks like Mai is rocking the tracing letters now 🙂
Are mock classroom was fun and she did great. I need to get her some little gold stars. 🙂
Brilliant idea, one to save for the future for me..
Thank you. She did a great job. I’m such a proud mama.
I need to get me a lamination machine!
I got to tell you, I love our machine. My brother-in-law bought it for us and I thought it was so random before, but now I love the thing.
My 4 year old son is getting interested in letters and attempting to write his name so I think I will use these traceable letters. Cool idea, especially laminating them! 🙂