We had a great week learning about the letter C. here are some of our favorite activities from the week.
We made a letter C with coffee and then tasted it. She loves coffee, must take after her parents!
She sorted candies by color. I started her by showing her how to group all the orange ones and then she did the rest on her own.
She made a cat mask from a paper plate.
We clipped colored clothespins onto colored cookies and sang this fun song:
Five little cookies with frosting galore. (Child’s name) ate the red one, then there were four. Four little cookies, two and two you see. (Child’s name) ate the green one, then there were three. Three little cookies, but before I knew (Child’s name) ate the white one, then there were two. Two little cookies, oh what fun. (Child’s name) ate the blue one and then there was one. One little cookie all alone, (Child’s name) ate the yellow one and now there are none!
We made a letter C carrot from a paper plate. We painted it with orange water colors and then used green pipe cleaners for the stem. She looks funny here because she is screaming "C is for carrot!".
She helped to make Letter C chocolate chip cookies. We also made carrot cake at the end of the week!
I put her letter pieces from her alphabet puzzle into a tub with beans and let her fish them out with tongs and put in the right place. She wanted to do this almost everyday.
We glued C’s onto a cake.
We made a lot of caterpillar crafts, but this was probably my favorite. This is the Very Hungry Caterpillar (one of her favorite books) made from torn paper.
Another caterpillar project made from toilet paper tubes.
She made a color book by placing colored stickers onto the correct colored page. This book has found a permanent spot in her bookshelf!
I made some cookies with pictures of C objects on the backs. She placed the ones that started with a C into her cookie jar (which was all of them, but she didn’t know that)!
Another caterpillar, this one made form egg cartons. She took this one outside to play with us and made him a whole house with a broom, bed, pillow and more!
She counted candies out onto her felt caterpillar. She did really great with 1-3, but 4 and 5 were not so good. She got too distracted wanting to eat the candy…imagine that!
She got some scissors from Mimi and Poppy this week so we made her a cutting box to practice cutting. Basically it is a large box filled with paper scraps. She can climb in and cut until her hearts content. She loves it, and it doesn’t make a huge mess on the floor!
Life cycle of a caterpillar project. The egg is a bean, the caterpillar a spiral noodle, the cocoon a macaroni noodle and the butterfly is made from a coffee filter colored with markers and then sprayed with water. Once dry, you attach a clothespin to it to make the butterfly.
One final caterpillar made from the letter C’s glued side by side. You can also see our letter C crab in the background.
We did some more counting activities with candy and what not this week, but mostly stuck to phonics stuff this week. Next week we move onto the Letter D – ducks, dogs and dots!
