Writing, writing, and more writing!

Lets get writing!! Writing journals are one of those things that kids love to hate.  Its hard work practicing letters and numbers over and over again, tracing those little dotted lines repeatedly.  Fortunately it all pays off the day that they figure it out and write their names all on their own! I am going to post pictures over the next year of journal pages that our kids do that are all created with stamps and hand/finger prints.  Just an fyi these journal pages are not in alphabetical order as they go from the easiest letters to form to the hardest.  My co-teacher scours the internet for ideas for these hand print animals for journals.  Once she finds an idea she changes it and adjusts until its what she wants and they are always creative and awesome!

Letter of the Week- Ff

For this first journal we had the children paint their hands pink not including the thumb.  Their hands were stamped down onto the paper for the body of the flamingo.  Next their index fingers were painted then they were asked to bend their finger and stamp it down for the neck.  Last they did the side of their index fingers twice for the legs and the tip of the pinky black for the nose! They only practice the letter Ff on this journal and their name is dotted out for them on the bottom so they can trace that as well!

Letter of the Week- Ee

For this journal the children were asked to create Enormous Elephants for the letter Ee.  For the head of the elephant we painted the children's knuckles grey and stamped their knuckles onto the page.  For the ears we did a thumb print on each side, for the trunk the side of the index finger and lastly painted their pinky pink for the inner ear.   

 

Letter of the week- Dd

For the letter Dd we made Dreadful Dragons.  All of the Dd's are dotted for the kids to trace as well as the D e f and d in Dreadful dragon since the kids have already learned those two letters this school year.  To create the dragons, the head is their thumb print straight forward and then another turned to the side.  The main body of the dragon is a pyramid of index finger prints and then the pinky is used to create the neck and tail as well as the orange spikes and feet.  The kids loved making dragons and got to practice D's at the same time! 

Review Week: 

This was a review week for our letters Dd Ee Ff. They had to practice each letter and then they were able to choose a stamp that started with each of those letters; Fish, Elephant, Dog.  

 

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 Letter of the Week: Pp

This week we made Plump piggies. To create the pigs the children first stamped a pink circle (twice) then did the ears and the feet with the index finger print and then drew the curly tail on with a pink marker. 

Letter of the Week- Rr:

This weeks letter is R! The children made Ripe red raspberries.  The children first drew their vines in green and then using their index finger printed 9 prints to form a raspberry.  

Letter of the Week- Bb:  
This week we made Buck tooth beavers! To create the beavers the children used a circle stamp that was only the outer ring of the circle.  Using the side of their pinkies they made two prints for the beaver teeth an then used the tip of their pinkies to create the ears.  After the beavers were dry the children drew in the whiskers and added the googly eyes. 

Review Week: 
This week we reviewed letters P, B and R.  We had them practice each letter a few times and then chose the pig, the butterfly, and the rabbit for the children to stamp. 

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Letter of the Week- Mm:  
This week we made Magnificent Monarch's.  To create these monarchs we painted the border of the children's hands black and the middle orange. The head of the monarch is a thumb print and then after they were dry the children added the antennae and the googly eyes.  

 

Letter of the Week- Hh:  
This week we made Heckling Hens.  We started by painting the children's hands brown and stamped it with the thumb up.  We then used their index finger for the feet, the nose, and the head, with orange and red paint.  Once they were dry we added one googly eye. 

 

Letter of the Week- Nn: 
This week we made Nosey Narwhals.  To create the narwhals we painted their hands, excluding their thumbs blue and stamped them on the paper.  We used the side of their hand for the horn and added the googly eye once it was dry.  

Review Week:
For this week's review the children practiced writing their M's, N's and H's.  After writing each letter 5 times each they stamped a necklace, mouse and house and were asked which letter each stamp started with.