10.12.09-10.18.09

The Plans

We only got to about 5 of our planned activities this week but hey we still were able to do 5 of our activities. It is all about perspective, right?

Playing in the Rain

I bought the girls umbrellas at the MOPs Convention last month. This was the first rain since then so we bundled up (only a little) and they had so much fun playing in the rain. We talked about the clouds and how water comes out of it and the water is rain.

Red Hunt

We continued with the color hunt this week. We looked for items that were red while singing this song:

We're going on a red hunt, a red hunt, a red hunt
We're going on a red hunt to see what we can find.

C is for Color with Water :-)

We had water color time and although there was more paint on Caitlyn than on her paper, they had so much fun. Not only did they have fun, they were also developing their fine motor skills and learning about what happens when you mix colors together - it makes a new color.

C is for Colored Pasta

The girls had their friend Ms. P over for the day. We had some colored pasta left from a MOPs kid activity. We used q-tips to put the glue on the C to decrease the amount of mess from this activity. We put the colored pasta on the letter C. It was also a texture activity since the pasta is bumpy and 3 dimensional.

Name writing and fun with markers

Chloe was practicing writing her name, she is getting better at it. Pretty soon we are going to focus more on holding the pen correctly and writing the letters correctly. According to a speech therapist friend of mine, that is apparently important.

Chloe traced her hands on the paper. I don't know whether she had more marker on her hand or on the paper. I couldn't believe that she had remembered how to trace her hand and did it on her own. This was the first time that she did it on her own, I have usually been the one to trace her hand with a crayon.

Playing with beach balls

The girls played with beach balls. As they were playing they didn't even realize that they were developing their gross motor skills. I love learning especially when they don't realize that they are learning!

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We played Candyland to help with color recognition and taking turns.
They continue to learn with Starfall on a daily basis.
Caitlyn practiced counting to 15. She has the numbers, next we will work on enunciation so that other people can understand her too.
Chloe practiced counting to 20, she still skips 15 but once she is corrected she restarts at 10 and then remembers to include 15.