School Pictures

Today was our first day back to school.  It is tradition to take pictures on our first day.  I decided to add a picture of the kids holding the grade the are in after seeing the pictures Carrie at Live, Learn, and Love Together took.

I can’t believe that Emily is starting 2nd Grade!  

 

Aiden is starting Preschool this year.  As you can see from the first picture he was NOT going to smile for me.  This is an expression I see quite frequently.  I did manage to get one picture of him smiling while he was climbing a tree.

 

~Cindy

Letter or Number ~ Sorting Activity

Aiden hasn’t quite grasped the difference between letters and numbers.  When we are working on counting he will say “that is the letter two”.   To help him understand what is a number and what is a letter we “fished” for letters and numbers and sorted them. 

I added foam numbers and letters to a container of water and gave Aiden a small drainer to fish them out.

 

I printed pages titled Letters and Numbers, put them in page protectors so the letters and numbers would stick, and taped them to the wall.

Aiden fished a letter or number out of the bucket, said what it was (with help from Mommy) and stuck it to the Letter or Number sheet.  

   

We packed a lot of learning into our 15 minutes of fun!  Aiden worked on sorting, naming the numbers and letters of the alphabet and colors. 

~Cindy

Alphabet Ladder

This was a super easy and fun activity we used to practice the alphabet.  I put a sticky note with a letter of the alphabet on each rung of the ladder. 

Aiden had to say each letter

before he could step on the next rung.

He absolutely loved this ~ probably because the ladder is normally a big NO, NO!

We went through almost all of the letters of the alphabet before I had to stop to and dinner ready.

 ~Cindy

Alphabet Activity ~ Fireman Theme

This week our theme is firefighters and safety.  I have been trying to come up with some outside activities since the kids have been spending much of the day outside.  We just opened a brand, spanking, new container of sidewalk chalk so I used the chalk to draw flames with a letter of the alphabet in the middle.  I really wished we had red chalk to make it look more like flames but Aiden didn’t care!  I called out a letter of the alphabet and Aiden would put out that fire with his spray bottle.

This was the only picture I took that Aiden wasn’t loosing his shorts.  I guess I might have noticed his shorts creeping down if I hadn’t been so busy dodging the water that was accidental being sprayed toward me.

~Cindy