{"id":3531,"date":"2012-07-22T03:12:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T08:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2012\/07\/22\/toddler-schoolletter-v\/"},"modified":"2012-07-22T03:12:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T08:12:41","slug":"toddler-schoolletter-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2012\/07\/22\/toddler-schoolletter-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler School–Letter V"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent this past week learning all about the Letter V.  As we near the end of the alphabet I am realizing that the last few letters are really tricky to come up with creative ideas for!  But alas, we move on and here is what we were up to this past week.<\/p>\n

\"ABC<\/p>\n

She sorted fruits and vegetables.  I wasn’t sure how she would do with this because we haven’t spent much time talking about what is a fruit and what is a vegetable, but she did great!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"ABC<\/p>\n

She painted a paper bag vest with vegetable pieces.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"ABC<\/p>\n

V is for vegetables!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"ABC<\/p>\n

Her vet office for the week.  I will post more details on this later!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"ABC<\/p>\n

V is for vine.  She glued a pink piece of yarn as the vine (we didn’t have any vine colored yarn) and then she matched up numbered leaves up with numbers on a vine.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Hostel<\/p>\n

Daddy taught her all about what a volcano is and then we made a paper V one.  The lava is miniature v’s.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"ABC<\/p>\n

Then we went outside and made our own volcano with daddy’s help.  She loved this and so we repeated it several times!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"ABC<\/p>\n

\"ABC<\/p>\n

And of course she had to get her hands involved and touch the lava coming out!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Hostel<\/p>\n

V is for vase!<\/em><\/p>\n

I had a vacuuming activity prepared for her where I would lay out several small letters and she would only vacuum up the v’s.  However, she is slightly afraid of the vacuum cleaner and refused to play.  We settled on vacuuming the couches together (although she still wasn’t a fan of touching the vacuum cleaner).  <\/p>\n

I also gave Mikayla her first test this week.  We will sometimes practice writing letters, but I haven’t pushed it too much yet because she is still working on pencil grip and hand movement.  Each week I will show her how to write the various letters and if she is interested I will give her some practice time.  So this week, we went to the chalkboard with a package of letter flashcards.  I would draw a card from the pile and she would try to write it on the board.  For each correct letter she wrote she earned a sticker.  She LOVED this game and getting silly stickers all over her body!  We didn’t get to finish though because Sharon stopped by and she became way too distracted.  I think we had like six or seven letters left to write.  I am proud to say that she was able to write about 2\/3 of the alphabet correctly.  Not too bad if you ask me!<\/p>\n

I am trying to finish up the alphabet before we leave for the US and throw in a mini unit about the Olympics, so next week we will be combining the letters X and Y.  I am not crazy about it, but I also haven’t been able to find enough X and Y activities to fill up an entire week either!  So X and Y it is together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We spent this past week learning all about the Letter V.  As we near the end of the alphabet I am realizing that the last few letters are really tricky to come up with creative ideas for!  But alas, we move on and here is what we were up to this past week. She sorted […]<\/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-3531","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\/3531","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=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}