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More Literacy: Alphabet Island

We have learned so much this month with the Mother Goose Time Alphabet Island theme. This has been sort of a wrap up month for the curriculum, we have reviewed numbers, letters, and colors that we have learned all through the year. We gotten to be pirates going on treasure hunts, ship captains discovering new islands, and cave explores searching for beautiful and amazing natural treasures. This curriculum comes with everything you need to have a well rounded and fun month of learning. And while all this is great they also offer add ons to help make this curriculum work for babies and toddlers or all the way up to about age 5 or 6. We have been receiving the More Literacy and More Math workbooks for a few months now and are really enjoying the added practice with the skills and concepts being taught. We don't use the books everyday right now, but I do see us using them more next year as part of our school day. The workbooks match the months theme and are really cute. Here are some sample pages of what we've been doing this month with the More Literacy workbook.



My son loves mazes so he happily did this page. He even wrote the letters on the line as he came to them. He usually just does the maze so I was thrilled that he on his own decided to write the letters as well. This page worked on writing names, words and sentences. Doing the maze is excellent for his fine motor skills and helps him with writing readiness. He got to practice gripping the pencil as well as writing with it.


We also really enjoyed this page which worked on retelling, as well as asking and answering questions. This is great practice for reading comprehension for later. He had to look at this picture and answer questions about it. He really enjoyed lesrning about true and false. I also asked him to tell me what the kids were doing and what he thought they might do next.


I also introduced him to syllable counting with this page. We had not worked on this before so I didn't worry about him actually writing the words on the page. We spent most of the time saying the words and clapping the syllables. He did pretty well with this for his first time. I had to clap them while he counted. When left on his own to do it he clapped out to many

It has been nice having the chance to check out this add on the last couple months because now I know that next year this will be a great option when we are needing something a little more with our Kindergarten year.


*Mother Goose Time has generously provided this curriculum to us in exchange for our stories and honest opinions*





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