Bunny Ears

Last week the boys and I worked on the letter x. We talked about xylophones and x-rays. I didn't take any pics. The only letters we have left to review are y and z. This week I decided to focus on Easter activities. Tuesday I helped the boys make bunny ears. I found the idea here. We also sang, "do your ears hang low?"
First, they colored construction paper with chalk.

Then while I cut the paper into headbands, they glued cotton balls onto the ears.

I stapled them all together. I think I put the ears on backwards, but they didn't care.

Then we hopped around the house pretending to be bunnies. Jax and Sawyer practiced wiggling their noses like little bunnies.

A little bit of T, U, and W

Wow! I have really slacked lately. We have been so busy with vacation, sickness, and just life lately. We have done a few things, but like I said I have really slacked. A couple of weeks ago we talked about the letter t. We had a scavenger hunt around the house. I hid things that started with the letter t and the boys found them. One day I read a book about tigers and we played a tiger game.

We also painted with toothbrushes and toothpaste. The boys loved this.

This week we moved on to the letter u. There wasn't much to do with the letter u. We read books about u and made an umbrella. I also started the letter W and we talked about weather. It was a good week for umbrellas and weather, because it rained all week.

One day the boys made clouds with glues and cotton balls. The top one is Jaxon's. He kept trying to taste the glue, but he did a pretty good job.

This next week is spring break, so we probably won't do much.

More Valentine Fun

I love Valentine's Day! I think I had more fun than the kids did this week. One day when they were napping I made these cupcakes. They enjoyed the surprise when they woke up.

The boys also made this paper flower one day. They colored it and I cut it out and helped them glue the pieces on.The pieces weren't straight at all, but I love them that way. I don't really like their artwork to look too perfect. I want them to have fun and for their work to display what they can do. Of course I help with cutting and things like that, but I try to always let them do as much as they can by themselves.



Then today I just let the boys go wild and make Valentine's. I got out paper, stickers, paint, and markers. Jax made 2 and Sawyer made 4 and would have made more if I would have let him.

Veggies and Valentines

I decided to skip a couple of letters and do letter V this week, since Valentine's Day is this Saturday. I introduced letter V on Monday. It was probably a good idea anyway, because V and U are really the only letters Sawyer gets mixed up sometimes. He knows the V sound, but sometimes he confuses the V with a U or and A. I put paper vegetables all over the living room and told the boys to pick the veggies. They put them in baskets and then we sorted them.

The boys had so much fun making Valentine's this week. I cut out hearts and had them glue red tissue paper to it.

They also made paper hugs. I found the idea here.

They painted the hearts and I cut them out. I helped Sawyer and Jax glue the faces and arms on. Sawyer said he wanted to give his hug to Jax.

Letter S

This week we talked about the letter S. Our theme for the week was snow. We didn't really get started until Wednesday. Both boys decorated the letter S with snowballs (cotton). They also had a snowball fight with cotton balls. We did this twice this week, because they enjoyed it so much. Sawyer also made a snowman with hectagons.
Thursday Sawyer painted with a mixture of shaving cream and white glue. This was a great sensory activity. I told him to paint with the snow however he wanted. When it was dry it smelled like shaving cream and felt soft like snow. Jax played with shaving cream while he did this and when Sawyer was finished he joined in. This kept them busy for about half an hour.
Sawyer's bible verse was "The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not be in want." We read several stories about David this week. On Friday I had Sawyer paint a shepherd's staff. I let him paint a paper bag and then I cut it out. I wrote his verse on a piece of paper and glued the staff to it.

I let Jax play with water and sponges while we did this. He had a blast. Again, Sawyer joined him and they had a great time.

Letter Q

Last week we talked about the letter q. Let's face it, there are not too many q words, so we focused on queen and quilt. The first day I let sawyer color the letter q and decorate it with glitter glue. I drew a little face and he put a crown on it to make it look like a queen.

The next day I read the boys a Bible story about Queen Esther. Then they made a paper bag puppet queen. I told them it was queen Esther. I let them both paint different parts of the queen. I cut out the hair and body parts and Sawyer helped me glue them on.
I used the Queen Esther puppet for circle time the next day.
One day we sat on a quilt and read a book about a quilt.
Then the boys helped me glue the hexagons together to form a quilt like pattern. Sawyer said it wasn't a quilt, it was a flower.

We also played the quiet game and talked about questions.

Letter R

I decided to skip the letter q this week, since we are supposed to be out of town next week for a few days. I don't have a whole lot of q ideas, so I thought I would do that letter on a short week and do R this week. Monday I let the boys paint the letter R with red paint. Then they added rice. It was a bit of a mess, but that is to be expected when working with a one year old and a two year old. I also introduced our new bible verse, Ecclesiastes 12:1.
On Tuesday I read the boys a book about a rainbow and they glued scrap paper on this rainbow I drew. I told Jax the color names, but he just likes to say yellow over and over. Anytime I asked him what color something was he said yellow or blue and we didn't even use blue. He is saying more and more words everyday. Even though the lessons are usually directed at teaching Sawyer, I try to incorporate Jaxon as much as possible and I can tell he is learning a lot.
Here is the finished product. I added an R for rainbow.
The rest of the week I have focused on rhymes, because the boys love nursery rhymes. Sawyer acts them out all the time. His favorites are Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, and Little Miss Muffett. Jaxon's favorites are Pat-a-cake and Humpty Dumpty or Dumpy Dumpy as he calls it. We have been reading lots of rhymes and playing rhyming games this week.

Sawyer colored these Jack and Jill finger puppets and I cut them out. He played with them while acting out the rhyme. Today we played with these Humpty Dumpty stacking cards. Then we played with word flash cards. I helped Sawyer pick out words that rhyme. He thought we should say them loud then soft, so that's what we did. We also tried to teach Jax some new words. Sawyer has been sick since Wednesday, so we may not go on our trip after all.