Letter T

It was hard to get back in the swing of things after being on vacation for a week. Thankfully we had a pretty good letter waiting for us.

Foods We Ate:

Teddy Grahams

Tacos

Tomatoes

Toaster pastry


Other Food Ideas:

Tomato soup

Tortilla chips

Turkey

Tuna fish


Activities We Did:

Printable activity pages

Preschool practiced writing upper & lowercase T

2nd grader wrote & illustrated a paragraph about a T-Rex

We made a train craft (very easy & cute, but it took awhile to color, cut out, and glue on) - templates HERE


We watched Toy Story movie

We played Trouble game

The tooth fairy even visited our house


Other Topics/Outings:

Teddy bears

Turtles

Tractors

Teeth (maybe visit a dentist?)

Trees

Turkeys

Trains (maybe take a ride on a train or go watch model trains)


Other T Movies:

Tarzan

Thomas the Train

Letter S

Thank goodness we are going on vacation tomorrow. I think we're all a bit burned out with this Letter of the Day stuff right now!

Foods We Ate (I had bigger plans, but I am trying to eat down things before our vacation):

Salad

Spaghetti

Strawberry yogurt

Strawberry fruit leather

Other Food Ideas:

Sandwiches

Steak

Soup

Strawberries

Smoothies

Squash


Activities We Did:

Printable activity pages

Preschooler practiced writing his upper & lower case S

2nd grader wrote & illustrated a paragraph about smiles

Our craft for the day was baking sugar cookies (star & snake shapes) - sorry, I forgot to take a picture

We played Sequence for Kids (great game, by the way)

Watched Stuart Little movie


Other Topics/Outings:

Snakes

Snails

Spiders

Starfish

Stars

Sharks

Sheep

Sports

Go to the Science Center

Seasons

Scrabble


Other S Movies:

Scooby Doo

Spirit

Sword in the Stone

Snow White

Space Chimps

If you have older kids, maybe Spiderman, Superman, or Star Trek

Letter R

Foods We Ate:

Raisins

Ravioli

Raspberry yogurt

Raspberry fruit leather

Other Food Ideas:

Rice

Rolls

Roast beef

Ribs

Activities We Did:

Printable activity pages

Preschooler practiced writing upper & lowercase R

2nd grader wrote and illustrated a paragraph about rhinos

Did Robbie the Rectange Robot craft (template HERE) - fun & easy craft, but it takes awhile if they are coloring it

Other Topics/Outings:

Rabbits

Raccoons

Reptiles

Rainbows

Radio

R Movies:

Ratatouille

Robots

Letter Q

I was dreading letter Q, but it turned out okay. Now I'm just dreading letter X...

Foods We Ate:

Quakes

Quesadillas


Other Food Ideas:

Quizno's Subs


Activities We Did:

Printable activity pages

Preschooler practiced writing his upper & lowercase Q

2nd grader wrote & illustrated paragraph about queens

Craft - we made queens to match our kings (king craft shown HERE) (queen templates are HERE - I didn't do the skirt - that would have been more challenging for my boys and they don't really care)

Other Topics/Outings:

Quail

Questions

Quilting

Quarter

Q Movies:

I couldn't find any appropriate children's ones

Letter P

We could have easily spent 2-3 days on letter P. So many foods and fun topics!

Foods We Ate:

Peaches

Pizza

Popcorn

Pancakes

Pudding

Popsicle

Pretzels

Pears

Plums

Pop-tarts


Other Food Ideas:

Peanuts

Pasta

Peas

Pumpkin pie (or any other kind of pie)

Pork chops

Pickles

Potatoes

Pineapple


Activities We Did:

Printable activity pages (sorry - I don't feel like including the link again)

Preschooler practiced writing his upper & lower case P

2nd grader wrote & illustrated a paragraph about pizza

Instead of a craft we played with playdough (which is quite a novelty around here since I HATE the stuff and it makes a huge mess)

We went to the pool

We played with a police toy set

Did puzzles

Ate pudding pops

Had homemade pizza

Watched a Pokemon movie

Other Topics/Outings:

Panda bears

Pigs

Penguins

Pumpkins

Plants (maybe visit a botanical garden?)

Picnic

Piano

Pirates

Princesses

Painting

Party

Pets (maybe visit a pet store?)

Penny

Park (maybe go to a park? we would have but it's too hot here right now)


Other P Movies:

Pete's Dragon

Peter Pan

Pinocchio

Letter O

Foods We Ate:

Oreos

Other Food Ideas:

Oatmeal (or oatmeal cookies)

Oranges

Olives

Activities We Did:

Printable pages from links HERE

Preschooler practiced writing upper & lowercase O

2nd grader wrote & illustrated paragraph about the ocean

We made homemade oreos

Craft - paper bag owl puppets - templates HERE (this is a very cute, easy craft but it takes awhile to color everything, cut it all out, and glue it all together)

Other Topics/Outings:

Ocean

Octopus

Ornaments

Otters

Origami

Old Maid - play game

O Movies:

Over the Hedge

Oliver (cartoon Disney one or musical)

Open Season

Letter N

There wasn't as much for letter N as I expected there to be. Good thing we had a busy day with other plans...

Foods We Ate:
Noodles
Nachos
Nutrigrain bar

Other Food Ideas:
Nerds candy
Nuts
Nectarine

Activities We Did:
Printable activity pages from links HERE
Preschooler practiced writing upper and lowercase N
2nd grader wrote and illustrated a paragraph about nails
We read about Noah's Ark
Craft - we made a necklace out of cereal


Other Topics/Outings:
Nose
Nest
Nurse
Numbers

N Movies:
Newsies
Nancy Drew
Night at the Museum
Or maybe just watch Nickelodeon or Nick Jr.!