The Bryan Family

This week we talked about the letter K and kites.  We also talked about different kinds of weather this week as well.

Sounding out words and finding the picture to match on her kites.

counting out pennies

Finding letters inside our easter eggs

pattern block kites

Using watercolors to paint our K kite coloring page

We also talked about our last shape, diamond this week.  We made a diamond with popsicle sticks.

Our K craft- kangaroo

Our K collage this week was “kisses” (forgot the picture)  We put on real lipstick and gave our K lots of kisses.

Giving our grass a little trim.  She grew this in her Bible class on Wed. nights.

March 2012

This week we talked about the letter U.  We also talked about rain and umbrellas.

COHS PreK letter U has some printables for the letter u and umbrellas.

Our U craft- umbrella

U collage with umbrellas

Using a funnel to make it rain

Drawing in the “clouds” (shaving cream)

umbrella craft

We made another umbrella by coloring a coffee filter with markers.  We then dropped water on it to make the colors spread together.

We then practiced using a water dropper.

 

We filled our cloud (cotton ball) with water and watched it rain.

We read the book “Little Cloud” then made our own cloud pictures by painting on one side of a folded piece of paper.  We then folded the paper back over to see what our cloud turned into.  Ellis’ cloud looked like a butterfly.

painting a rainbow

After rocking Liam to sleep, the “big kids” had to get their own babies to rock to sleep.  

March 2012

At 9 months, Liam

• has 2 teeth
• weighs around 22 pounds!  He’s catching up to big sister who barely weighs 30 pounds.
• is crawling on his hands and knees, though sometimes he still likes to do his army scoot.
• is pulling up to stand 
• will shake his head no and will even repeat “no” when he hears it
• claps his hands
• will wave bye-bye
• has started blowing kisses..he makes the “nnnnah” sound when he does it
• cries when mommy leaves his sight
• has found his tongue

April 14, 2012

This week we learned about the letter R.  We also continued to learn about the penny.  Here are some things we did this week:

Dot painting robots.  This and more robot fun can be found here.

Robot roll and graph game.

Robot color beginning sounds

R is for rabbit

Our R collage with ribbons

Finding the pennies and putting them in the “bank”.

Counting out pennies

Rainbow sparkly pom-poms.  I found these in the $1 section at Target one day.

Paining rainbows

Coloring with our rainbow crayons we made last year.

We made a rainbow booklet.  We talked about and drew different items that were each color of the rainbow.

March 2012

During Neale’s spring break we decided to take a few days and go camping at Petit Jean State Park.  Despite the very cold night, we had a good time.  I’m sure we will do this again  (hopefully when it is not so cold).

March 2012

…Just like Daddy

February 2012

Our letter this week was H.  

H is for Hippo:  COHS

H is for House:  Totally Tots

House theme printables:  Making Learning Fun

H with do-a-dots

We painted “Happy Hair” on Mr. H.  We then made our own “happy hair”.

Cut and paste hippo

For our H collage we put happy face stickers on our letter H.

We made horses from our handprints.

Our letter craft: H is for house.

We made a house from different shapes.

We talked about different types of houses from different parts of the world.  We also talked about “houses” or places where animals live.

Sorting furniture into different rooms of a house.

Next week:

Letter R

Rainbows & St. Patricks Day

Robots

Pennies

At 8 months, Liam:

• is right around 21 pounds.
• is on the move.  He’s not quite officially crawling, but he gets to where he wants to go.  He gets up on his hands and knees as soon as we sit him down.
• has become very energetic!  He doesn’t stop moving and tries to reach out and get into everything.  I have heard “No, Liam!” from Ellie a lot lately.
• still just has one tooth.
• can say “dada, mama, baba (sounds like bye-bye).
• has started using baby signs.  He doesn’t do them all the time, but he has done “daddy” (I think he thinks that Neale and I are both daddy), “more”, “milk” , and tries “all done”
• can clap and wave bye-bye
• knows his name.  Will look when we call his name.
• loves to stand.  Can stand holding on to something, and can also stand unassisted for a few seconds.

Nebraska

February 2012