Letter Ll Activities

Here are some of the activities we planned for our two Ll weeks:

ASL (American Sign Language)
We love ASL in our home. We use it all the time. Here are some of the signs we used for the Letter Ll.
-Letter L
-love
-Lord
-leaf
-light

You can find signs here on my Pinterest board: My 2nd Language

We also used the signs for "same" and "different" in our Phonics lesson. I gave her word pairs that were the same or different.

"same"

"different"

Snacks
-ladybug strawberries
-lemonade
-cherry limeade
 
Bible Connections
Our Bible verse for this week was "Love the Lord your God with all your heart." Deuteronomy 6:5a. (This is included in my Stored In Your Heart Bible Verse Set.) My shortcake loved doing some ASL with this verse we did "love" "Lord" "God" "all" "heart" "6" "5". You can find some signs on my Pinterest Board.

Every week we also pick a prayer person to pray for. It just so happened that my daughter has a friend named LeAnna and another friend named Luke. We made them some cards and sent it to them. We cut out a coloring page for a ladybug and a lion and attached it to a construction paper. 

Ladybug Activities
-Ladybug counting rocks
-HUGE collection of Ladybug activities here!
-Egg carton ladybugs
-Ladybug nails

Leaf Activities
-Leaf Fall Garland craft
-1+1+1=1 Tot School Letter Ll
-Sun catcher Tissue Paper Leaves craft


Here are all of my plans for the Letter Ll. You can download them for free!

These are the books we read.
This is the music we listened to.

Letter Ll Books

Here are the books we read for both Ll weeks:

We started the first week focusing on ladybugs. We read Ten Little Ladybugs by Melanie Gerth. This is a cute story that gives a great practice with counting 1-10. My daughter has been counting to ten for a long time, but this was perfect for practicing one-to-one correspondence. (This means that she practiced pointing to each ladybug while she counted.) The other great thing is my little shortcake loved reading it to her little brother! This also went well with several ladybug activities.




We read a fun poem called Ladybug, Ladybug from Ladybug, Ladybug and Other Favorite Poems from Cricket Books that I found at our local library. I love incorporating poems when I can.





We read Mary Had A Little Lamb nursery rhyme. I used this print off to read it! I had planned a little lamb craft too!




During week 2 we switched our focus from ladybugs to leaves. We read Zero Is The Leaves On The Tree by Betsy Franco. This was a cute story that talked about many things during the Fall that show us the number zero, including leaves that are no longer on the tree.








As we continued to focus on leaves, we read Leaves, Leaves, Leaves by Nancy E. Wallace. It was a cute story about a little cub who goes on a leaf walk with his Mom during all of the seasons. This was a great introduction to fall time. It was a longer book for a preschooler so it could be split into several different reading times. My shortcake didn't seem to mind sitting still for this one.







Another great leaf book is Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert. The pictures are really nice in this book. We had read this last year and we ran out of time, so we skipped this book.













We finished out the two weeks of the Letter Ll by reading Is Your Mama a Llama by Deborah Guarino. This story is about a little baby who is looking to find her mama.











Don't forget to check out activities that went along with these stories and the music we listened to. Thanks for stopping by!