Houses ~ Colors, Numbers and Home Address Activity

Aiden is currently learning our home address.  To make thinks fun I printed off some colored houses, one with our address on it, and the others with the numbers 1 – 10.  I taped them to wooden blocks so they would stand up.  I also made some street signs out of crafts sticks.  The base is Crayola Model Magic (have I said how much I love this stuff?).  One of the street signs is for the road we live on and the others are just for fun.

Learning Activities ~  We have been using the houses all week for several different activities.

Colors and Numbers:  I called out a house number, Aiden would find the house and tell me the house color and repeat the number.

Should I have called 911?:  Both the kids are learning about 911 and when it is appropriate to call.   When they found the correct color/number house they would take turns asking me what the emergency was.  I would give examples such as:

• My cat is in the tree and I can’t get her down.
• A rag was left on the stove and caught on fire.
• The bathtub is overflowing.
• Someone tried to break into our house.
• My smoke detector was going off.

We talked over the scenarios and decided whether I should have called 911 or not.

Our House:  We practiced finding our house and road, and repeating our address.

You can download the houses here.  The last house is left blank so you can add your house number and/or address.

~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