This week we learned the letter "B". Caleb already knew this letter, so it was mostly review for him. For our letter activity, we glued beans inside the letter B.
I also brought out my foam letter stickers for the letter of the week and he played with those for a while. I was proud of him when he started separating them by color and then finding the matching upper and lower case letters in each color.
Our theme for the week was "B is for Bears". We read all of the books I had chosen, with our favorites being the Corduroy books. Caleb also had a lot of fun acting out the poem, Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear. I really wanted to do some sort of bear related craft, but had no energy that day. Instead, we found teddy bears from Caleb's room and the twins' nursery and put them in the storage cubes in our school area. Hannah had a lot of fun pulling them all out their cubes and throwing them on the floor. :)
To learn the color blue, I made more scented playdough. This time I added berry flavored Kool Aid to the recipe and added a little extra blue food coloring. It didn't have a super strong scent, but had a slight fruity smell.
We used our number cookie cutters to cut out the number of the week.
For a little fine motor play and to incorporate the color of the week, I brought out a colander and some blue pipe cleaners and let Caleb thread the pipe cleaners in and out of the holes. He had a blast with this!
This was the first week that I introduced learning his name. We will be continuing this throughout the year, with the hope that the end result will be that he can write out his first name. To teach him the spelling of his name, I spelled it out using flashcards and we sang C-A-L-E-B to the tune of "B-I-N-G-O". He thought it was so cool to have a song all about him! :)
It was a fun week, even though we didn't do everything planned. Luckily I'm feeling much better now and this current week is going much better!
Here is our wall at the end of the week.
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