{"id":3478,"date":"2012-07-08T05:11:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T10:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2012\/07\/08\/toddler-schoolletter-s\/"},"modified":"2012-07-08T05:11:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T10:11:17","slug":"toddler-schoolletter-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2012\/07\/08\/toddler-schoolletter-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler School&ndash;Letter S"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a very fun week studying the Letter S!&#160; We still have a few activities to do this week that we will intersperse with our Letter U study!&#160; Here is what we were up to this past week.<\/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 S and birds 001\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 001\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-001.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>I laid out our <a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2012\/06\/16\/toddler-schoolletter-o\/\" target=\"_blank\">owls<\/a> from a few weeks ago with letters on them and I would call out the letter I wanted her to find.&#160; She would slowly walk over to the letter and &quot;swat&quot; the owls!&#160; She had a lot of fun playing this game.&#160; Could be played with any type of flash cards too.<\/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 S and birds 007\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 007\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-007.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"444\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>We researched starfish and learned a lot about what they look like and how they moved.&#160; Then we made a starfish to hang on the window made from cardstock, cheerios, and suction tabs.&#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 S and birds 008\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 008\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-008.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Letter S is for Stars.&#160; She put star stickers inside an S and then counted out star stickers to match the numbers in the circles.<\/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 S and birds 010\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 010\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-010.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>I poured salt in a pan and then she made various letters in the salt.<\/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 S and birds 011\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 011\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-011.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Then she decided Mickey and Donald needed to play in the salt too!<\/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 S and birds 012\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 012\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-012.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>She made a square man by gluing various sizes of squares together.<\/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 S and birds 013\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 013\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-013.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"444\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Letter S is for slithering snake!<\/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 S and birds 015\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 015\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-015.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>For our food item this week we made scrambled eggs.&#160; She pretty much did it all by herself.&#160; I helped a little with cracking the eggs, but she did the rest&#8230;<\/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 S and birds 017\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 017\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-017.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>&#8230;even scrambling in the pan.&#160; Don&#8217;t worry, I was right by her side the whole time!<\/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 S and birds 018\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 018\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-018.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>S is for straw and sticks!&#160; We used old yogurt cups to make the three little pigs homes.&#160; I used pink binder clips for the pigs and a blue one for the wolf.&#160; She has loved retelling the story of the three little pigs over and over again!<\/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 S and birds 019\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 019\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-019.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Here she is retelling the story.<\/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 S and birds 023\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Letter S and birds 023\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Letter-S-and-birds-023.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>S is for sick&#8230;on Friday she wasn&#8217;t feeling well and so instead of having school we watched movies!&#160; She is feeling much better now though.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Since we already did the <a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2011\/11\/27\/toddler-schoolletter-t\/\" target=\"_blank\">Letter T<\/a> at Thanksgiving, we will move on to the Letter U next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a very fun week studying the Letter S!&#160; We still have a few activities to do this week that we will intersperse with our Letter U study!&#160; Here is what we were up to this past week. I laid out our owls from a few weeks ago with letters on them and I [&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":[120],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-toddler-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","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=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}