Having fun in March with Rebecca

This sweet girl and I have had so much fun playing this month. She loves to learn so we find ourselves doing lots of school activities. This month as flown by will very few updates so enjoy a collection of Rebecca pictures from March.

Letters, letter everywhere. From the bathtub to Banana grams, to Bob books to writing family names before bed time on her magnetic writing board.

Crafts and learning. I get to teach Rebecca's class at church. We learned about being thankful day and night. We made these pictures with glow in the dark stars. We also made a tent in the classroom and went under to see our stars glowing.

We did some shopping. This girls LOVES to shop and is mostly happy to talk with me while we shop, as long as she's not hungry or tired. Our favorite stores are Target and Costco. The samples at Costco really help make that store super fun! Any where we go she can make it fun. At Target on day she found a mirror to make silly faces and crazy actions into.

Winter just doesn't want to go away. On our way into swimming lessons it was snowing big snow flakes. We stopped and played in them and catch them on our tongues. She exclaimed "It looks like Christmas!" 

Rebecca had her last dance class this month. We were able to be in there to watch. She was so excited to show off for us. She loved her dance class! She wanted to bring her teacher flowers, and also give one to each of her friends. It was the sweetest thing!!

Rebecca has really gotten into giving HUGE hugs and kisses. She needs to give hugs and kisses at random times during the day. She also needs to give and receive at least 2 hugs and kisses before bed every night. She'll get up from dinner and give everyone a hug and kiss before going back to eating. It's simply adorable!!

Oh Rebecca you are such a joy to have in our family. It's amazing how much love you have brought into our family and how much love you have to give to all of us. 

I think you sweet girl and made out of love, hug & kisses.

Letter L Preschool

Today was letter L day at preschool. We had such a fun time! I really love preparing the lessons, Rebecca loves learning the lessons and she loves playing with her friends. A complete win-win situation!

We started by reading a few books with L words in the tittle and story. We read a few extra while we waited for all the kids to show up.

Elmo Loves You and Big Dog, Little Dog being the favorites.

Then we played a game. I took a paper plate and wrote Ll on it.

I had a bucket with some toys in it. The kids would pull one out and we would say what it was, then make the beginning letter sound. If it started with the letter L, then it went on the plate, if it didn't then it went on the couch.

The kids enjoyed the game, but I think they got the biggest kick out of me making the "L" sound and the toys beginning sounds over and over each time.

We then worked on a worksheet. The kids colored the 4 items on the top and then some tried out writing the uppercase and lowercase Ll's on the bottom of the page.

The worksheet can be found here: http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/learning-letters/l.htm

I have an app on my tablet where the kids get to trace the ABC's with their fingers and then the picture comes to life. All the kids got a chance to do that and wanted to do it again! I think that makes a great educational app if kids enjoy doing it and want to do it more while they are learning.

Our craft was making lamb and lion masks. I cut the inside part of the plate out for the kids faces to look through. I painted Modge-podge on the plates for the glue. We used cut up pieces of brown construction paper for the lion masks and stapled brown ears to them. For the lamb masks we used cotton balls and stapled white and pink ears to them.

The kids had a great time making these. One little guy who is always the 1st one done with crafts, was the last one done with his lion mask and he wanted every brown paper just right.

We ended preschool with a large chunk of playtime. I think playtime is also very important for kids. Rebecca and a little boy C played babies in her play house, while P & K brought them food and took care of them. It was very sweet. I love what their imaginations are coming up with during playtime.