Did you have a letter A day yet? How’d it go? It went great here. Keep in mind, it
wasn’t a full day of “all A, all the time,” just a little here and there. We did almost all of the things from the A-list
(even a few bites of asparagus). The ones we didn’t do, I’ll try to squeeze in
tomorrow as a review of A! Ahh, just go
with it and it actually all works out. :)
The boys actually added to the list and
I liked that too. For instance, on their own, they
made letter A’s out of sticks and mulch while we were outside. I love that
awareness (appropriate word for an A-day too!) and self-directed activities came
just by giving them a theme for the day.
Let’s move on to B, shall we? Here’s the bullet list for
B: (Did
you just roll your eyes at my alliteration?
It’s okay. I did too.)
- ABC puzzle again- I think it set us up to work together and review the ABCs for my younger son. It may get old, but it isn’t yet.
- "B" Scavenger Hunt- This went great today, so I’m rolling with it. My older son ran around looking for items that started with A and my younger son roamed around looking for both capital and lowercase A’s. I wrote the letters on the kitchen chalkboard and kept an overall tally of how many times they found something. I did tallies as a team type thing even though they were working individually.
- "B" foods- broccoli, Breakfast of bananas, biscuits (too bad they ate the last ones today and I don’t do those from scratch), bagels, blueberry muffins (I love a quick mix in a box!) or bacon
- Bubble gum chewing and maybe some bubble blowing? That should be funny.
- Bike riding
- Bendaroos- We just happen to have an unopened box someone gave us. I ’ll see if the kids want to do them.
- Blowing big bubbles- I’m going to try to string together drinking straws with yarn or pipe cleaners to make large shapes to place in store bought bubble solution.
- Baby Book or any book donation to a new baby, a friend, a church nursery, library, day care, etc.
- bouncing birthday- We just happen to have a birthday party to go to at an inflatable place, but you could always do a birthday cake for the letter b, take your kids to an inflatable place, or just bounce around the yard doing relays or just plain silly stuff.
- Back to School Shopping- It has to be done sometime...
- Be nice, Be polite, Be silly, Be ________ - Insert whatever you need for your family!
- Brothers, Best friends and maybe a little Brain-washing- Though I know my boys love each other, they don’t always show it. Recently a lady told me that she went to a parenting class years ago and she learned to just tell her kids they were best friends. Say things like, “Don’t talk to your best-friend like that” or “Best friends don’t do that to each other.” I’ve bought into it and am trying it. I don’t really think it’s brain-washing, just helping kids understand things they aren’t old enough to understand yet. Yeah, let’s go with that. :)
How’s that for a list to help you
begin your B day? You could hop over to Angela's blog to see what she did and even ask your kids what ideas they have-
kids are pretty creative. They haven’t
let themselves grow out of it yet. I’m
sure we won’t get to everything on this list and that’s okay. I give you
permission not to try and do it all also. ;)
C is for Closure. Remember that from the title? I’m letting my teacher-self come out a
little. Close out the learning your kids
do when you can. Wrap it up and put a
bow on it, figuratively of course. We’re
all busy and closure doesn’t have to be fancy, just help them process what they
learned. Closure is like
putting a lid on the firefly jar so they (the new ideas) don’t fly out. For example, after my preschooler made his "A"
out of sticks, I asked him how he did it.
He had to tell me and re-think his process about how you form the letter
with two leaning lines and one straight across. We did a little tonight by
reading The Sleepy Little Alphabet and talking about all the letters as we
went. Closure is something I think I’ll
always be working on in my classroom and I need to remember it at home too.
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I was serious when I asked if you
did letter A day. I want to know what else
you did. I have dreams of being more
organized and maybe doing a more structured version next year! Help me out! Give me your 2 cents, please.
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