X - cellent week with letter X!

This week we covered letter X. It's hard to believe that were nearly done with the alphabet! We began letter x with an X book and some tracing...

Then we glued some letter x items onto our X....

We talked about an x-ray and then made a pretend one using q-tips.

On Tuesday Ronan and Micah practiced letter x with "X marks the spot" and pirates! We did a flip book...

We did a look/find handout. The boys had to find what was different among the four items...

And we practiced making the letter X with pretzels and carrots. I first gave them two sticks to make the X... then I gave them 4 smaller pieces and had them try to figure out how to make an X. They did very well with it.

After a snack, we put on pirate bandanas and went on a treasure hunt!

They had to find numbers 1-8 and match them to the number on the back of the map. They took turns looking.

X marked the spot for the treasure box! Inside was a twiX!

On Wednesday Ronan was with Janell. They practiced making X with rhythm sticks. They worked on tempo and volume of taping the rhythm sticks. They also made a cool xylophone that worked on putting rectangles in order biggest to smallest.

On Thursday we did more with the xylophone... we did some tracing...

We played our toy xylophone and played a "copy me" game.

Then we worked with Ronan's name puzzle...

Then we read a Thomas book with an X in the title.

On Friday we did a listening game with a fox and a box. I gave directions as to where to put the fox and Ronan had to figure it out. I was impressed when he got the left and right sides correct!

We did a letter search...

Some tracing...

We read a book...

And then decorated a box for pretending!

Also on Friday I got to hang out with my friend Sheila! We brought the kids to an open gymnastics!

I got to hold her new little guy! He's such a cutie!

We went to the park this weekend because the weather was finally dry! We hope the sun is here to stay... for a little while anyways!

Daddy has been working hard! He's almost got the playground ready! The kids were busy playing train on the stones while Steven worked...

Until next time!

Wild week with letter W!

We began letter W week with a Sesame Street letter W video (6 minutes), a few books, and a Winnie the Pooh puzzle...

I saved the majority of the day's lesson for when Kieryn got home from school. I thought she'd enjoy part of it! We tried weaving...

We read about our favorite mascot...

Then I surprised them with a picture.... we ended the lesson with the Wabash Cannonball,  KSU chant and of course, pretend Wildcat "tackle" football! :)

On Tuesday Micah and Ronan used watercolors to paint the letter W...

Then they painted a picture that had a letter W item in it somewhere... they had to find it.

Afterwards we did a demonstration about how things get heavier when we add weight. We tried this using weights and a toy wagon. Each time the boys made a lap around the kitchen before we added more weight. The boys loved it!

We were able to fit 1-10#, 2-8#, 2-5#, 2-4#, 2-1#, and 2-.2# for a grand total of ~46.5#... they both pulled it around and back! I was quite impressed. They wanted to keeping going so I think they were impressed with themselves as well!

We ended the lesson with a wizard wand color match...

Then we made a wooden wizard wand of our own. (wooden popsicle stick, curly ribbon, and tape)

On Tuesday night at our kid class we had a great workout! We did waddling, walking, and of course wobbling! The wobbling was their favorite.

On Thursday we used wiggly worms for our lesson... we practiced cutting and tracing with a gummy worm...

We did some W sound matching...

Then we went outside and collected some worms... luckily it has been rainy so there were lots of worms to choose from...

Ronan even held one! We practiced using words to describe the worms!

On Friday we did some tracing and talked about whales...

We did some matching...

A letter w search...

And we read a bible story about Jonah and the whale! Great way to end letter W week!

Over the weekend the kids had fun at a neighbor's birthday party...

And I found time during the week to finish my Easter wreath! Just in time for W week!





Until next time!