We had a short week at school this week due to a meeting I had on Monday and the abundance of ripe bananas I came across on Friday.  So we really only had three days of school this week.  Next week we will continue on with D and review old letters and activities.  Next week will also be a short week because we head into town on Monday to take care of our TRP’s.  Here are some of our activities from this past week.

We made a letter D duck with paint, feathers and construction paper.

We worked on patterning using pom poms.  She did really well with this so next time I will extend the patterns and maybe leave a blank spot to see if she can figure out what would come next.

We clipped letter clips to spell her name.

We practiced counting by choosing a magnetic number and placing it on the card with the correct number of stars.

We made a D dinosaur.  I had hoped to do some more dinosaur activities but she didn’t act too excited about it so we didn’t!

We had a quick review of B and C by placing B’s in a bowl an C’s in her cookie jar.

We rolled a dice and put stickers on the number that was rolled.

We stacked dice on top of each other like blocks.

We played with an alphabet uppercase and lowercase puzzle (only the letters we had studied so far though, I didn’t want to overwhelm her).

And of course we made deviled eggs.  She was very meticulous with peeling the eggs (an added bonus is it worked on he fine motor some).  She of course loved helping in the kitchen and as you can see below enjoyed eating the deviled eggs even better!

Like I mentioned earlier, next week will be a review of letters and continuation of our letter D study.  We will move on to E the following week!

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!

We have had a very fun week learning all about the letter B!  We did some arts and crafts, lots of fine motor and a little math.  Next week we have a fun science experiment on the agenda.  Here are some of the things we did this week. 

We found a chalkboard on our outing last weekend and Mikayla has been loving it!  It is no IKEA art easel, but it has been pretty fantastic this week!  We also found some stringing beads that she has enjoyed this week.

Color matching.  I just wrapped some construction paper around empty toilet paper tubes and she placed the corresponding pipe cleaner in them.  They kept falling down though, so I need to find something to hold them up.

We had lots of fun with balloons.  We played with them, and  we blew air into them and let them go.  We even had a balloon relay where she had to pick up balloons out of a container with tongs and run across the room to another container and place them there.  She ha a lot of fun chasing around the balloons.

• Letter B bumble bee.  We also made a handprint bumble bee I forgot to take a picture of.

Sorting big and small buttons.

Matching the colored butterflies.

We scooped beans  into various containers using cups and spoons.  I think she had the most fun with this activity.

We played with our new activity from Lylah and Lara, stringing felt through a button (practicing how to push a button through a hole).

We sorted colored buttons into balloons.  She had a difficult time with this at first, but eventually got the hang of it. 

We glued beans on the letter B.  Side note – it cracks me up how serious she gets with some of her school activities.  She is really concentrating on putting the beans in the perfect spot.

We screwed nuts onto a bolt to work on fine motor.

We went on lots of bird hunts in our boots with binoculars.  She really got into looking for birds through her binoculars.

We also spent a lot of time playing with her babies and blankets and looking for B items around the house.  Some other activities we did include playing B hide and seek (I hid letter cards around the room with B on them and she had to find them), painting a bear with watercolors, drawing numbers from a stack and bouncing that many times, showing different letters and bowing when she saw a B and freezing for the others, making a letter B butterfly (wish I had gotten a picture because it turned out cute) and sang lots of songs (including Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee and a few others I made up on the spot).  She definitely grasped onto the concept of B better than she did A for some reason.  All in all we had a good week – learned a lot and played even more!

She just started this week picking up different objects and asking what they started with which is fun for me as a teacher to see her wanting to learn so much.  She was even able to identify letters I didn’t know she knew at the hostel the other day.

Next week we move onto C.  Think Cars, Caterpillars, and Candy.  I have a lot of ideas, but feel free to keep sending them my way.  I am always up for something knew!