The Plan
Ee continued this week. I really got into the Ee theme, many of our activities start with an E. We had a busy busy week of learning and tot school. The girls really loved doing more activities so I think that I will look into planning more each day with them. The way I have been doing it is during the course of the week picking activities that we had prepped or that I had energy to do. It has been very relaxed, even the time, sometimes it is in the morning and other days in the afternoon, there have even been times where we do "tot school" in the evening when daddy is home. As always the girls enjoyed using their computer to interact with Starfall.
Letter Tracing
Chloe has been doing good at writing her letters but I wanted to help her to make her letters smaller. I found this dry erase board that has the lines like writing paper and had the letters to trace (Capital on one side and lowercase on the other). I LOVE our local Parent Teacher Aid store, I always find something amazing, the prices are great and the people are so nice too!!
Ee is for Envelope decorating
I thought that this would be a good opportunity to make thank you cards for the presents received at their recent birthday party. And Envelope does start with E.
Candy Land Shapes
This is a new toy/learning activity from one of the girl's friends for their birthdays (Caitlyn turned 2 on the 14th and Chloe will turn 3 on the 23rd).
Pattern Blocks
My friend who gave me the pattern blocks didn't have the cards to go with it. So on Tuesday, I found out that the Parent Teacher Aid store in Reno sold the pattern cards separately for less than $7. I went straight over and bought them and we used them that evening. And I wasn't being artsy with the photos, apparently the lens cover was stuck slightly closed.
Rubber Fish
The girls found some rubber fish that I had around for craft projects. They put them in our new fish tank, while I was doing housework, that my husband is getting ready for fish. He thought they were real at first and one was floating at the top, so he thought that I had surprised him by buying fish and that it had gone horribly wrong. He was happier to hear that they were rubber fish, he fished them out. Luckily the pH of the water was not affected. At least this is better than when they put in the pretzels...true story.
Tonging Pom Poms
This was the first time that we did this activity, Chloe was able to get the hang of it right away. Caitlyn had trouble with figuring out when to open and close the tongs so that she could put it in the jar to get the pom poms out. This was great for fine motor skills, coordination, and color recognition. After Chloe had the hang of it, I suggested that she pick up specific colors. I bought the tongs at the dollar store and the pom poms were parts of packs purchased at walmart for less than 2 or 3 dollars.
Orange Hunt
Continuing our color exploration we looked for orange items while singing:
We're going on an orange hunt, an orange hunt, an orange hunt
We're going on an orange hunt to see what we can find.
Evaporation Experiment
On Thursday, we poured 2 cups of water into each jar. We then added salt to one of them, labeled them and marked on the tape the level so we could keep track. We made pictures as a discovery journal for the experiment like in Sid the Science Kid on PBS Nearly a week later and they are at the same level that they were when we started. I guess I should have used hot water instead of cold water. Oops, live and learn. I'll leave it out another week or so to see if the water evaporates at all.
Dramatic Play
Pretending that they were driving something. I didn't quite catch what it was they were playing/pretending.
Ee is for Egg Lacing Cards
I made Eggs (Ovals) out of a oatmeal box and then punched holes all around. They used the laces that we use with the other Lacing cards that we purchased.
Number Identification
I would ask the girls to find a number and then after we did that for about 5 minutes (taking turns) I would take a number away and ask which one was missing.
Sequencing Cards
The sequencing cards are a new learning tool. They include 5 sets of 5 piece combos that you put in sequence. They fit together as simple puzzle pieces. I would mix them up - face up and talk it through with Chloe. She really liked this activity.
Ee is for Exercise
My girls were using my exercise weighted balls (2 lbs each). They wanted to exercise just like mommy. We set up the mini bounce house inside our home on Thursday so that the girls and their friend Ms. P could bounce to their hearts content.
Touch and Learn Turtle by Vtech
Caitlyn just received this present from Nana, her aunt, and her cousin for her birthday. She loves to play with it and especially loves to dance to the music that it plays.
More pretend play
Using the pretend kitchen to make different food and drink concoctions.
Elephant Craft
We made an elephant craft using the geometric shapes pattern from RoseArt (it comes with the construction paper). I prepped the circles (large for the face and body/small for ears) using craft punchers, rectangle legs, the trunk and of course a little tail. I helped them to glue the pieces on, they had a lot of fun. And what craft project is complete without googly eyes? When we were done , Chloe said that she wanted to do another one.
Caitlyn took some googly eyes that I left on the ground and put them on a butterfly in one of our big coloring books. You have to look really closely to see it.
E Collage
The girls wanted to use glue and I couldn't think of anything that started with E to put on the collage. Oh I just realized that ELMER'S glue starts with an E, that's funny. Unintentionally funny, but funny nonetheless. I had them tear paper to put on it to bring some color to it.
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We tried playing Snakes and Ladders (similar to chutes and ladders, instead of the slides it has snakes but they are cute snakes) with Chloe to reinforce her numbers. She was having a hard time with understanding how the game worked. We'll try it again as a learning game in a few months.
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