Letter I

My husband once said, "Every day is a Monday for you babe."  I believe he was right, but this Monday was one of THOSE Mondays.  The baby didn't sleep well, so I wasn't my usual cheerleader self and the twins couldn't be bothered with activities.  They had more fun playing with each other today and didn't even want me to play.  The upside is I was feeling the need to deep clean and they gave me the opportunity. 

We did start the letter I by reading a few books and painting.  I intended to make and island, but we didn't get very far.  Tomorrow my fingers are crossed we will finish.

Painting an uppercase and lowercase I indigo.  It took a few tries to get the correct color. 



G told me he was finished painting his paper brown.  I was able to get him to do a little more and by little I mean a little.

We are working on cleaning up our space after each activity. 







A Little More Halloween.

My childless brother-in-law once said Halloween was his favorite holiday because he didn't have to spend it with his family. I think Halloween is my favorite holiday because of my family.  To be honest I think they are all my favorite holidays.  We have been doing some Halloween themed activities (shocker since it's Oct.) and G and H have had a blast.

We made orange play dough using gelatin.  They loved smelling it and then using Halloween cookies cutters.

I found a pumpkin ice cube tray at the Dollar Store and some Halloween pom-poms at Target.  They loved using the chopsticks to put a pom-pom into each pumpkin space.

Doh

Thanks to the ladies who pointed out my spelling error in the header.

Letter Review

I found these cute little letter stamps in the dollar section at Target.  I thought they would love to stamp, but sadly I found it more interesting than they did.  I will try them again in a month and maybe we will have better success.

Matching stamps to letters. 

I put out a basket of letters and objects to match.  The letters are from the Melissa & Doug puzzle and the objects are erasers I found at Michaels.  The only downfall to the erasers is they pull apart into tiny pieces.  I can just see the kids playing with these in the classroom.  I might try some Crazy Glue to keep them together.  They are the perfect size for initial consonant recognition.

Letter H Hunt



During nap I gathered objects that begin with H and hid them in the playroom.  The twins did a hunt to find all the objects.  It was a big hit.



Playing the haromonica.

I outlined each object to help them know how many they needed to find.

Wait, bunny doesn't start with H and that's why we called it a hare.



Sorting Hearts

We do a lot of sorting in this house, me included.  I like to think I am getting them ready to take over sorting the laundry. 

Sorting hearts for our letter of the week.

Dramatic Play

 One of my favorite things to do with my children is dramatic play.  I love how you have to use your imagination and it is so open ended.  Recently I set up a doctor's office in the playroom.  The twins were really confused how to play doctor since they are rarely sick.  It took a little bit of modeling before they became interested. 

For the supplies I found old medicine bottles, an old thermometer, ace bandages, band aides, craft sticks for tongue depressors, and anything else that looked like it belonged in a doctor's office.  I printed off prescription cards, patient cards, health posters, and x-rays and then I used contact paper to keep them nice.  It's a good thing my husband looked closely at the x-rays because our doctor's office had a few pet x-rays.  I thought the x-ray with stomach and chest x-ray looked funny.



Supplies

The Waiting Room

Exam Room



The Doctor