{"id":2704,"date":"2011-10-01T09:11:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T14:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2011\/10\/01\/toddler-schoolthe-letter-b\/"},"modified":"2011-10-01T09:11:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T14:11:34","slug":"toddler-schoolthe-letter-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2011\/10\/01\/toddler-schoolthe-letter-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler School&ndash;The Letter B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have had a very fun week learning all about the letter B!&#160; We did some arts and crafts, lots of fine motor and a little math.&#160; Next week we have a fun science experiment on the agenda.&#160; Here are some of the things we did this week.&#160; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Birds and chalkboard 001\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Birds and chalkboard 001\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Birds-and-chalkboard-001.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>We found a chalkboard on our outing last weekend and Mikayla has been loving it!&#160; It is no IKEA art easel, but it has been pretty fantastic this week!&#160; We also found some stringing beads that she has enjoyed this week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter B and more birds 002\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter B and more birds 002\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Letter-B-and-more-birds-002.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Color matching.&#160; I just wrapped some construction paper around empty toilet paper tubes and she placed the corresponding pipe cleaner in them.&#160; They kept falling down though, so I need to find something to hold them up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter B and more birds 003\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter B and more birds 003\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Letter-B-and-more-birds-003.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>We had lots of fun with balloons.&#160; We played with them, and&#160; we blew air into them and let them go.&#160; 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.&#160; She ha a lot of fun chasing around the balloons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter B and more birds 007\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter B and more birds 007\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Letter-B-and-more-birds-007.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"center\"><em>Letter B bumble bee.&#160; We also made a handprint bumble bee I forgot to take a picture of.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter B and more birds 017\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter B and more birds 017\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Letter-B-and-more-birds-017.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Sorting big and small buttons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter B and more birds 035\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter B and more birds 035\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Letter-B-and-more-birds-035.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Matching the colored butterflies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter B and more birds 040\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter B and more birds 040\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Letter-B-and-more-birds-040.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>We scooped beans&#160; into various containers using cups and spoons.&#160; I think she had the most fun with this activity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter B and more birds 043\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter B and more birds 043\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Letter-B-and-more-birds-043.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>We played with our new activity from Lylah and Lara, stringing felt through a button (practicing how to push a button through a hole).<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter B and more birds 049\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter B and more birds 049\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Letter-B-and-more-birds-049.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>We sorted colored buttons into balloons.&#160; She had a difficult time with this at first, but eventually got the hang of it.&#160; <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter B and more birds 051\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter B and more birds 051\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Letter-B-and-more-birds-051.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>We glued beans on the letter B.&#160; Side note \u2013 it cracks me up how serious she gets with some of her school activities.&#160; She is really concentrating on putting the beans in the perfect spot.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter B and more birds 052\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter B and more birds 052\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Letter-B-and-more-birds-052.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>We screwed nuts onto a bolt to work on fine motor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Letter B and more birds 059\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter B and more birds 059\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Letter-B-and-more-birds-059.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"444\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>We went on lots of bird hunts in our boots with binoculars.&#160; She really got into looking for birds through her binoculars.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; width: 448px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:30fa2c7f-dd15-40b9-a7d9-016ce3a42d64\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">\n<div><object width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qPLBeL6xAeU?hl=en&amp;hd=1\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qPLBeL6xAeU?hl=en&amp;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<div style=\"width:448px;clear:both;font-size:.8em\">Mikayla and her binoculars<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">We also spent a lot of time playing with her babies and blankets and looking for B items around the house.&#160; 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).&#160; She definitely grasped onto the concept of B better than she did A for some reason.&#160; All in all we had a good week \u2013 learned a lot and played even more!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">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.&#160; She was even able to identify letters I didn&#8217;t know she knew at the hostel the other day.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Next week we move onto C.&#160; Think Cars, Caterpillars, and Candy.&#160; I have a lot of ideas, but feel free to keep sending them my way.&#160; I am always up for something knew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had a very fun week learning all about the letter B!&#160; We did some arts and crafts, lots of fine motor and a little math.&#160; Next week we have a fun science experiment on the agenda.&#160; Here are some of the things we did this week.&#160; We found a chalkboard on our outing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,120],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-mikayla","tag-toddler-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}