Week H

This is a picture of our pond mural. We have ducks, frogs, fish, and cattails. This week we will add some dragonflies that we created and lily pads. It is starting to look like a pond. We have a couple more weeks to add some turtles, snakes, and possibly an alligator.

We worked on our alphabet this week. It was H week. J is putting together a puzzle of the alphabet. I am constantly amazed at how she is recognizing letters everywhere, even ones that we haven't worked on.

H is for...brown? Nah, J just seems to focus on one color when she is coloring. I am always reminding her to change colors. Today we had to throw away her beloved pink marker. That was her favorite and she hated to throw it away but it no longer worked. Now, she is forced to pick other colors since pink is unavailable.

H is for heart. We made a Valentine's rug for the door. These rugs are relatively cheap at IKEA, less than 4 TL. I needed a new one for the bathroom, so I washed the old one and we painted it. We stamped flowers and hearts on it. I think it turned out cute. The paint I used isn't permanent fabric paint so I don't imagine it will last long but it should last long enough for Valentine's Day. Maybe I will just wash it, see if it comes out, and we will paint it again for another holiday.

We have been practicing writing our letters so I made a book to practice our numbers. Each number has a cute saying to help her write the number. I laminated them to make them reusable. Here is where you can find the printable number book.

J is doing a alphabet dot to dot. This will help with hand eye coordination as well as recognition of her letters.

We are working on recognizing patterns. What comes next? This is a Valentine's pattern activity that I printed out to use for the next month. She has to determine what comes next. This is a new concept so we will be working on it for awhile using different items. The patterns get harder as you go. Right now we are working on ABAB patterns as well ABBABB patterns. You can find the Valentine's printables here.

Here is one of our dragonflies that we made for our pond. We colored coffee filters with markers, sprayed them with water to blend the colors, and waited for them to dry. We then glued them to popsicle sticks and added eyes.

Here is my smiling Kaleb. He joined us for school today.