N, O, P

Well...I've decided I stink at blogging. It is so hard to make time to brush my teeth let alone update weekly. So monthly will have to do. Or whenever I can. Such is motherhood.

There they are! Adorable as usual...and the reason I don't blog much! :)

We recently did Letter N and Letter O. Right now we are in the midst of finishing up Letter P.

For letter N week we did nose, numbers, nine, and Noah's Ark.



We did some simple addition using her numbers puzzle. I'm amazed at how giddy she gets when she realizes counting all of them gives her a completely new number of animals. Very cute!

We focused on what numbers add together to get the number nine. We also counted up to nine several times. She's been doing that for a while, but it was a good thing to do over again. We talked about the five senses and I found a great book with pictures and descriptions that we read a few times. She spent much of letter N week walking around with a flower to her nose! I suppose she got the message!

Letter O week we did octopus, opposites, and orange.

We acted out opposites (run/walk, quiet/loud, sit/stand, hot/cold) and talked about the different opposites in the many books we read on the subject. We talked about octopuses and how many arms they have and what they look like and where they live. She was more interested in watching Nemo and seeing the little octopus squirt than doing a craft so we watched Nemo too.

Right now we are working on letter P. My printer is out of ink so I've been doing a lot of hand cut projects instead of pre-printed handouts. Her big love of the week is having me draw a picture of an animal that starts with the letter P, coloring it, and having me cut it out so she can play with her new "paper" friend. We've made a paper princess (this was how it all started as I found a book called "The Paper Princess"), a panda bear, a macaroni penguin, a pig and a poodle. We've had pancakes for breakfast 3 days in a row and we did a day on penguins. We watched bits of March of the Penguins and discussed the roles of the mom and dad penguins and hatching their eggs.

It's been fun! Now we are going to do a review week before we move on to the letter Q. She has begun wanting to write all the words she learns so we did some of that this week too. We wrote "PENGUIN" and "PANDABEAR" (she's not quite sure what a space is yet!) and she's also obsessed with writing out her full name! She even wrote a letter to daddy for N week. N for NOTE. :)

Hope this finds you well!

Blessings!