And Finally Some School....

We are finally getting back to doing "school" after the holidays and the sickness. This is what we have done so far.

We are working on the letter F. So, here J is cutting pink hearts for a pink Flamingo that we are making.

J is stamping the letter F for her alphabet book. She is stamping little fish and frogs on it.

F is for family. I made these family handwriting practice cards for J. I used a worksheet that had the lines, added our family member names, and a picture. Then, I laminated them using my handy dandy laminator that my Parents bought me for Christmas. I love that thing. Because the cards are laminated, J can practice writing all of the names over and over again, then just erase. She worked through the whole family (including Sammy-our  Grandpa's dog), tracing all of the letters then erasing.

Here is a closer view of the Family cards that I made.

We are still working on our Mitten unit and what is cold weather without hot chocolate? This is a number game that I printed off (and laminated :) I am in laminator heaven - ha ha). J would pick a number and add "marshmallows" to the mug of hot chocolate. Now, you are supposed to use real ones but since the real marshmallows didn't survive the holidays (you can't get them here), we used pompoms. Because I am trying to be thrifty with my laminating sleeves, since I won't be able to get any more until I return to America, we can flip this number game over and play Winter Tic Tac Toe.

J likes this game. The game pieces are mice and hats for our Mitten Unit. She is learning how to block three in a row and how to win. I also laminated the smaller game pieces and cut them out to be able to reuse them later.

And we finally added some ducks to our pond. I have had this pond hanging up in my stairway since the beginning of December, long enough for a T friend to ask if it was an abstract piece of art! It is just green poster board and blue plastic wrap. I am happy now to have added paper plate ducks that J painted yellow. We are hoping for some finger painted fish (still on the letter f) and a green frog to be added later this week to keep our lonely ducks company.

And lastly, still learning about the pond, we made a pond using a plastic container. J had some fish, turtles, lizards, and frogs that she added to the water. And I made some lily pads from green foam sheets. I was going to add some blue food coloring to the water for a real water effect but since she is wearing her favorite outfit (white flower shirt and pink tutu - thanks gramma), I decided not to. The reason - J informed me that I haven't been doing a good job with the laundry. She put her princess undershirt on the other day and found a stain on it. It is her favorite undershirt. It was, of course, my fault that the stain was there and not the fact that she was eating in her undershirt and dropped some kind of food on it! ha ha I love having a four year old teenager!