Alphabet Review Week!

We took this week to do a letter review! Monday was a big "errand day" for me so I decided to use it as a teaching/learning time. I would hand various items to Ronan as he sat in the shopping cart and either ask him to find a letter or ask him what letters he saw on the package. His favorite place for this game was at Hobby Lobby when I asked him to find a few things that began with various letters... He wanted to buy the three pictured here... Taking a pic was the only way I could get him to leave the items at the store... He really wanted to buy them but I said we couldn't buy that day...we negotiated that I'd keep a pic so we could look at it later. He was satisfied.

On Tuesday I did a review with Micah and Ronan using puzzles. First we did a train and practiced the alphabetical order...lots of singing of course...

Then we did letter sounds... I would say the letter sound and they took turns finding the letter that made that sound. If they weren't sure I gave them the letter so they could find the match. 

On Wednesday Ronan was with Janell for letter P review. Try did a pepperoni pizza dice/counting game, they made pizza, and later made a play dough porcupine.

On Thursday we practiced matching uppercase to lower case...Ronan could find nearly all of them!

We ended the week with an alphabet snow ball fight. We included Kieryn because I thought she would have fun with it. The snow balls had the lower case letter... Once they said the letter on the snowball they had to find the upper case and hit it with the "snowball"! Very fun!

Until next time! Stay warm and safe this weekend!

Perfectly precious!

What a perfectly pleasant week! Kieryn got to help with some of our letter P activities before starting school again on Thursday. Ronan really enjoyed having Kieryn home over winter break... Next week will be our first week back to our normal schedule. It will be a rough week for Ronan! 

So, we took advantage of having Kieryn and did some fun stuff...we started the week with pom- painting with purple and pink paint.

I was surprised when Ronan said he wanted to do a pattern...pink pink, purple purple...

Then we did P/p sorting with pillows...

Then we gathered all the pillows in the house and made a pile of pillows and did some pouncing!! The kids loved learning the new word pounce.

Later we had a snack and made the letter p with popcorn and pretzels.

This time Kieryn wanted to do a pattern.

On Tuesday we started the lesson by pretending with our potato heads...

We made a letter P penguin and talked about where they live, what they eat, etc. we watched the Penguins of Madagascar movie that night.

Then we did a push/pull/pick up workout. We tried different things to see the easiest way to move it... For the 10lb weight the agreed that pulling was best. Other things we tried were a toy, ball, paper plate, and comforter from their bed. We talked about whether picking up with one hand or two was easy or harder. Fun experimenting for them!

That afternoon we played play dough...

On Wednesday we did a P search, coloring princesses and pirates, and p tracing.

Then we did a number match to make a pig.

For lunch we had pancakes, peppers, and hotdog pieces.

On Thursday Kieryn went back to school so Ronan and I had a pretend and play day! We pretended with paw patrol, trains, race cars, etc! So fun! We had a p snack of peaches and penguins...

When Kieryn got home we played in the snow!

On Friday Ronan was at Janell's while I worked at the gym. They did a letter review, work on name spelling, and of course lots of playing! I did not have Micah this week because he was under the weather...

On Friday evening (and all weekend) the kids had fun with paper planes! It is amazing how fun this simple toy can be!! By Sunday both kids had 4-5 each. They liked propelling them from the top level!

Until next week...

Fun week with family!

We had such a fun week last week! Dale and Sandy flew in from Maryland to visit. The cousins got lots of quality time with them and each other! One of the first things we did was celebrate Christmas. I think this is always the kids' favorite!

We spent the rest of the week alternating between the Caywood house and ours for fun both inside and out! It was helpful that both houses had new toys from Christmas. The Caywood's new power wheels were a hit!

On Wednesday we got to see our friends, Carrie and Ryan, who were visiting from Utah. It was so fun to have everyone back together! Felt like old times...just now with kids! Miss them!

The week went too fast! We were happy and blessed to spend time with Dale, Sandy, the Caywoods, and the Copp family in Auburn! It was a fantastic way to end 2016!

Wishing you and yours a wonderful 2017 from the Copp family!