D for Dinosaurs

The letter of the week was D and the theme was dinosaurs. Once again, we had a very busy week. I have a feeling this will be the norm. Monday we talked about D and read a book called, "Dinosaurs Big and Small." We did a color activity that I had planned for the previous week, but didn't get to do. I put shaving cream in ziplock bags and let Sawyer put food coloring in the bags and smush it all around to make red, blue, and purple shaving cream. I was going to let him finger paint with it, but he wasn't too interested in doing that. He just wanted to smush it in the bags and that was fine with me.
Tuesday I had Sawyer color a color by letter picture of a dinosaur. It had Ds on it and I told him to color all of the D's green. He liked naming the different letters and coloring the pic although he didn't keep it in the lines.
Wed. we read a book about dinosaur bones and put a dinosaur puzzle together. He painted a plate and I cut it in the shape of a dinosaur. I found the pattern here.


Sawyer chose to make the flying dinosaur and paint it purple. I know it looks a little bit like a bird.
I don't even remember what if anything we did on Thursday. I kept his friend, Bobby again and he wasn't feeling very good, so I just tried to keep all of the boys happy. Then Jaxon started running a fever that evening.
Yesterday we went to the doctor and I told Sawyer that d is for doctor. I asked him what other words started with d. He remembered daddy starts with d and then he said "Dax starts with D." He has a hard time with his J sound, so he pronounces it with a d. I guess he was right that dax starts with d, but I had to tell him that his brothers name is Jax, not dax. I helped him make a dorothy dinosaur with a toilet paper tube. I found this activity here.

Cows

Friday, we went on a little field trip. Aunt Jessica asked us if we wanted to go to the stockyards. It was a perfect end to our C week. We saw cowboys, a cattle drive, and got to sit on a cow named Big Jake.

C is for Crazy

The letter of the week is C. Crazy is not really our theme, but we have been so busy this week that we haven't had much time for our lessons. We have been talking about colors this week. Tuesday we reviewed the letter c and then read a book called "Cat's Colors". Sawyer was at his friends house all morning, so we did this when I picked him up. When he woke up I had a little activity and snack idea that I got from Shandra's blog. I had him sort fruit loops and then the plan was for him to string them and eat them. He sorted them all by himself really well, but the yarn was to thick to string them. He didn't want to eat them, so I just threw them away. It was the first time I had ever bought sugary cereal. He usually eats plain cheerios, so he didn't care for the fruit loops. I guess that is a good thing.


Wednesday I had a friend over in the morning. When she left we read a book about a rainbow and talked about the colors in a rainbow. I let him paint a rainbow. He made quite a mess! Usually I try to do the crafts when Jax is sleeping, but he was awake this time. He was on the floor pulling things out of the cabinet and I thought he was fine, until I saw that he was sucking on the red paint jar. He was testing to make sure it really was non toxic.


Today Sawyer's friend, Bobby came over. They are just a few days apart in age. His mom and I switch off keeping each other's kids and today was my day to watch Bobby. They played together most of the morning. I read them a book about colors while they ate a colorful snack of strawberries, blueberries, and green grapes. Then I let them glue colored shapes to a clown.

I am not really sure what we will do tomorrow. I had an idea involving shaving cream and food coloring that I wanted to try. We will just have to see how the day goes.