Letter Of The Week:

Last week we worked on the entire alphabet - reviewing each letter and sound through songs and actions as well as putting together our alphabet train puzzle.  The train puzzle was a real test for her to see if she could figure out which letter came next and then identifying that letter and attaching it to the train puzzle.  We also spent some time working on Easter related crafts.

This week we're on the letter F.  Since feathers starts with the letter F, we decided to glue feathers on to her letter.  She also decided to have Fruit snacks for her letter F snack.

Here's the masterpiece:

She loves the art projects as much as she loves the one-on-one time with momma.  That's nice part about having our kids 4 years apart.  They both get individual time with me while they are little.  I have to make sure that I don't get too wrapped up in projects at Riley's school, etc. while she's home with me. I don't want her (or me) to miss out on these moments that we can't get back.

The Letter E

We took a little time off from our Letter Of The Week because the kids and I have been under the weather.  Today Kendall asked for an art project so we worked on the letter E.

Here's our picture for the E.  Yes, it's supposed to look like an elephant.

To go along with our letter E, we are reading Ellison the Elephant by Eric Drachman.  It's about a little elephant who struggles to trumpet like the other elephants.  He learns to find his own voice through the help of a friend named Weasel.  

As for our E related snack, she's not too crazy about eggs and I struggled to come up with other foods starting with E, except eggplant and that wouldn't have gone over well either.  Maybe you have an E sounding snack idea you could share with us!

New Ideas For Teaching The ABC's

Make and Takes has a great idea for helping you teach your child her ABC's.  She suggested using pipe cleaners!  What a great idea!

For more info on this and other great ideas from Make and Take, click HERE

 

Have fun!

The Letter D

This morning Kendall and I took a field trip to the donut store (aka Beyond Glaze) for our D snack to go along with out letter of the week.  The girl was in sugar heaven!  Of course she picked out all the donuts that had pink icing on them!  We ate our snack at the store because she was too impatient to wait until we got home!

Here is Kendall eating a peanut butter raspberry donut that tastes just like PB&J!  

Then we came home and worked on our craft to go along with the letter of the week:

It's a duck for the letter D!  

Afterwards we read the book called Duck Soup which is about a duck named Max who likes to cook.  He leaves his pot of soup on the stove while he goes out to the garden to get some herbs to complete his soup.  In the meantime his friends enter the house and can't find him so they assume Max has fallen into the pot of soup! 

Now if Disney came up with a princess for each letter of the alphabet, then we'd have a movie to watch with the letter D too!  Who knew learning your ABC's could be so much fun (and so delicious!)

Letter Of The Week:

This week is the letter "C."  So today's art project was a letter C in the form of a caterpillar!

We also read the Hungry Little Caterpillar and ate chicken nuggets for lunch!  Got to start planning for letter D next week!  Maybe a field trip to Beyond Glaze for donuts?  Sounds like a delicious idea!

The B Says Buzz!

The letter of the week is "B."  So today's art project was to create a bee in the form of the letter B.

Here's my little princess (yes, she's often found in her Rapunzel dress while at home - the thing has so many rips and tears, but she doesn't care!) making her art project.  She has been loving the time spent being creative while learning about her letters and sounds.

I never cease to be amazed by her fine motor coordination...I guess compared to Riley, she seems so advanced!  (For those of you who don't know, Riley's fine motor skills were as weak as could be without qualifying him for services when he received speech therapy as a toddler.)

Here she is putting black stripes on her bee - she did help cut some of the stripes, but Momma had to make the longer ones.

Bees have to have antenna and eyes as well as a purple stinger!

Ta Da!

And what kind of teacher would I "bee" if I didn't include a snack that starts with the letter B?  Yum!