Christmas Week 2 Activities

We made J candy canes for Jesus (and of course Jadyn). These were made by ripping and tearing various types of red paper and gluing it on a letter J.

This is possibly one of my favorites. We made elf ornaments using our photos and adding ears, hats, and the bodies. They turned out so cute that I think I am going to laminate them and keep them for next year's tree. I found the elf printable from this website. It has really cute and free (my favorite) printable crafts.

We made an easy tree banner. All I did was cut out triangular shaped Christmas trees and had J decorate them with various foam shapes, glitter, sequins, and shiny wrapping paper. Most of the items were brought from the states but you could use stuff from here, just be creative.

Lastly, we practiced hand-eye coordination by peeling Mandarin (mandalina)  oranges. These are in season now and are easy to peel. She absolutely loves them and would eat three in a row, if I would let her. Also, these are nice because they are virtually seedless.

2 Months

Two months, can you believe it? I can't. It has gone by so fast. He is getting so big, I can barely keep clothes on him. It seems that something that fit him one day, doesn't fit him the next! He is smiling more and he loves his sisters. He is my sweet pea.

Christmas Activities

The first of December brought about a month of advent and activities that I planned. Here are some of the activities we have done so far.

We put the tree up. Here J is getting a lift from Keke.



We made tree ornaments from pipe cleaners and beads.



We made jingle bracelets from bells and cording. And then, we learned the words to Jingle Bells.



We searched for stars around the house like the Wise Men did. At the end of the star search, J got a Christmas movie.

We are also doing a daily advent reading at dinner with the whole family present. These readings come from a printable advent chain that I found online. These readings have been nice to do as a family and they are manageable for a four year old to sit through. (sorry, can't find the link but I have the pdf if anyone would like it, e-mail me)

Letter D

Sorry, it has been so long since my last post. We went through a bout of sickness here in the household. J was sick and thus decided to share her sickness with the rest of us. We are finally healthy somewhat and back to doing "school." This is some of what we did for the letter d.

Every week we begin our "school" with reading Abadaba Alphabet by Sheila Moore. It is a new book to our library and what I really like about it is that it teaches the sounds of the letters, not just the letters itself. So, she is learning the sounds of the letters which will help when she begins to learn to read.

We played a math counting game where we added dots to our Dalmatian after rolling some dice. The dots were buttons and then we compared who had more dots on their dogs.

J dug for dinosaur fossils in a sensory bin filled with rice. The fossil was actually a Burger King toy for Night at the Museum that I found awhile ago. It is the T-Rex and he glows in the dark-pretty cool.

J painted a dinosaur puppet that we made with brads.

Then we made binoculars from toilet paper tubes. Our binoculars are for our learning unit on the pond. We finished our unit on the farm and have moved on to learning about the pond. You can also see the beginning of our pond mural in the background on the floor. We made water by using blue plastic wrap and we will add pond animals as we learn about them.