Baby Bear Preschool: Letter V

I was searching through pictures today and realized I hadn't finished up our Alphabet posts! Even if no one wants to read them, I want them on the blog as archives for Sprout! Here's what we did for Letter V:

I'm not going to pretend I remember the verse or word of the week from that week, but we like used her AWANA verse since that's what we've been doing lately.

Build a Van:
I cut shapes out and laid them on a tray next to a sheet of construction paper and gave Sweet P instruction to "Build a Van". This is how her van turned out. It looks a bit like a house on wheels, but I love that her mind works in a completely unique way!

V is for Vase: The blue V was on a tray with the flowers, stems and a glue stick. I explained what a vase was (we don't have too many!) and she set to work. If you look closely, you can also see that she traced the V and added centers to the flowers.

Letter V dot page and writing practice from DLTK:

We covered letter V close to election day so I made this coloring sheet in Word and printed it out for her. I put a variety of red and blue markers on the tray and she set to work!

V is for Volcano: I made a super simple volcano out of a cup and a paper bag (easiest volcano EVER!). I used baking soda, vinegar and red food coloring for the lava. Since it was a cup, I could dump it out when it got full and let her play over and over again. I added dinosaurs (because hey! all volcanoes have dinosaurs, right?!) and she loved that! Seeing it fizz up made her light up over and over again! 

 Eventually all the dinos got dumped into the volcano...so THAT'S what happened!!!

This was also close to Halloween so we did several Halloween activities, workbook pages (with Letter V), counting pumpkins and letter V with our geoboard. There was also a violin coloring page, but I'm not sure what happened to the picture.

Our Coffee Filter Pumpkins were also a huge hit that week!

Tot School: Valentine's Day

Sweet P is 21 mos old

I probably shouldn't even post this, but I want to document it and since I've been a lazy blogger lately, now is a good a time as any. Here's what we did over Valentine's Day week for tot school. Yep, a month ago.

Melissa & Doug Pull Along Farm Animals: Sweet P got these from Papa Ray Ray for Christmas and we finally got them out that week. She loves to pull them around the room. They are a little bit difficult for her to stack on her own because of the placement of the rods, but she loves to neigh, moo and baa with the animals.

Valentine's Day cards: Sweet P made Valentines for all the loved ones in her life! She did a really great job with these. I cut out tons of hearts (one of the many days I wished for a Cricut) and would ask her what color, rub some glue on the back and hand it to her. She decorated, stuck and stickered to her hearts content.

Don't you LOVE the head tilt with the coloring?

Heart sequencing: This was hard because there were too many colors, but she did well saying the colors and playing with the hearts. I can't remember where I got these so if you know, please tell me!

Playing in the sink: This is definitely a favorite activity around here. She was also practicing her smile for me!

ABC Hearts: This activity was a bit advanced for Sweet P, but I cut them out and put it together anyway. As you can see, she wanted to read instead. I ended up closing the folder and letting her put the hearts in the front pocket. These are from File Folder Fun.

Magnetic Fish: Having some fun in the basement with the fish. She's still working on these.

Art set from Auntie Rosita: She loves to color with her art set in the basement.

Butterfly Craft: Again with the cutting out hearts... I cut out several sizes and then let her do the glue and showed her where to stick them. We used a couple of stickers on the wings, too.

Reading: Lots of reading, of course.

V-day Sensory Bin: We played with this well after V-day.

Starfall.com: We LOVE Starfall around here. This is such a great website. Sweet P was OBSESSED with the letter V and the Starfall Van. We've probably watched that thing 100 times.

H is for Heart: Can't remember where I got this either. I had a list of V-day resources, but this wasn't on it! Still have trouble with this. We used raisins and she'd much rather eat them than put them in the circles. hehe.

And there you have our Valentine's Week! About time, eh?

Valentine's Day Sensory Bucket

Here is our Valentine's Day Sensory Bucket and it's contents:

Valentine themed erasers from the Dollar Tree

Valentine themed stamps from Hobby Lobby

Red sparkle hearts from Dollar Tree (I removed the stick on half of these and left the stick in on the other half)

Valentine themed foam stickers from the Dollar Tree

Homemade clay hearts

Purple, red and pink pompons

1 large purple pompon

February wooden tile from perpetual calendar

I love you wooden tile from perpetual calendar

A pair of red Mardi Gras beads

A few pieces of crinkled hot pink tissue paper

She loves to dump out the contents and we'll use the stamps and erasers for matching activities this week as well as for making Valentine cards!