Jj Week

It just happened to work out perfectly that Jj week was the last week of November. So for Jj we talked about baby Jesus and got ready for the Christmas season. 

Hollis loved the nativity magnets. 

We read the story of the Jesus' birth and used the magnets to retell it. 

J is for Jesus pom pom magnets. 

Doing a little cut and paste stable and baby Jesus. 

I found this little ornament in a dollar section somewhere and she painted it. 

And her toilet paper roll Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus. :o)

We are going to take a break from Letter of the Week and do Christmas activities for December. We'll start with letter Kk in January. 

Letter Ii

Letter Ii was a bit of a rushed week. We didn't do a whole lot because we just had a lot going on. But here is the little that we did for Ii....

I stamping.

The stamp is actually a foam 'I' sticker on a Gatorade lid.
She loved it. 

Indian stickers on the 'I'.
It was right before Thanksgiving so it worked. 

Ice cream color sort.
She actually did really well with this and of course, she loved the glue. 

She also put on her sunglasses and lei and did some 'island' hopping (hopped from pillow to pillow on the floor.) 

Hh Week

For Letter Hh we....

Took a little "field trip" to Home Depot where she got to do a little project.

A Turkey Napkin Holder!

Then she played with her new "hardware" sensory bin.

She hammered pegs into her board.

She practiced some fine motor skills with nuts and bolts. 

And then some fun with PVC pipes.....

Then we played hospital!

She loves cut and glue projects so we glued hippos on an H.

Another cut and glue.....
I found a printout of different kinds of hats.
We cut out faces from magazines and then glued the hats on their heads. 

She glued hearts onto a big H.

Our handprint Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree is filling up with letters. 

The Ipad.
She loves this gadget.
I've found some good math games that she enjoys.
Right now, Candy Count is her favorite.
She sorts the jelly beans by color in the jars, then she counts them, puts them in numerical order, and some less/more activites. She can do the sorting and counting independently but needs help for all the other stuff. But it is a cute game and its free. :o) 

Letter Gg

So far for the letter Gg we have done.....

A little GEOMETRY.
M is really into glue these days so we glued pictures to their matching shapes. 

Our completed Geometry project!

This was really supposed to be ghost stamping but it ended up being Halloween stamping. :o) 

Then my favorite Gg activity so far....playing GROCERY STORE. We had so much fun. I loved watching her play pretend. I've got to do more of this stuff with her!

Bagging my milk...

Scanning my watermelon and eggs.

Our little grocery store....

More glueing for the girl.
She glued pictures that start with Gg on the big G.

I found some little ghost "flashcards" with pictures of g words. The real idea of the game is to sort them in groups of soft g and hard g. But we just used them for vocabulary and language. She likes to point so we laid out the pictures and she would point to them as I said them.

We are going to do some Good Night, Gorilla stuff and then we will be moving on to the letter Hh!

Letter Ff

Letter Ff for 

FALL!

Fall sensory box...
found the big magnifying glass and it is a big hit.

Corn, acorns, pine cones, leaves, gourds, and a few jack o lanterns. :o)

We made Pumpkin Ooey Gooey Bars.
Yummy!

She couldn't wait to get them off the mixer so she licked them on the mixer.

Loves using the mixer (and cracking the eggs). 

She is saying "ooooooh". 

They didn't last long. 

A fall nature walk to collect leaves. 

She needed her magnifying glass. 

Love the colors of fall!

We went to a Fall Festival and she got to see turtles (and hear some music, make a corn husk doll, and play with puppets.)

We matched football helmets and jerseys by color.
Ff = football :o)

She painted and decorated her pumpkin. 

Obsessed with glue. 

We have a few more fall projects to do and then we are going to do some Halloween stuff! Can't wait!