The Bryan Family

This week our letter was M.  Here are some of the things we did this week.

We had a muffin party after reading “If You Give a Moose a Muffin”.

The inside of our rainbow muffins

M is for moustache

We played a letter m muffin game.  If the picture on the muffin started with an m she put the muffin in the muffin tin.

Our M collage with marshmallows.

Our M craft - Mouse

Painting M&M’s

m&m sort

We also started learning about money this week.

Counting pennies

Sorting money from her piggy bank.

Ellie playing Mommy.  Such a good big sister!

COHS: PreK Letter M

Totally Tots: M is for mouse

Next week: 

H

Houses

Penny

..also Dr. Seuss’s Birthday (March 2)

At 7 months, Liam:

• is right at 20 lbs!
• says dada (all the time) and baba
• is really wanting to crawl.  He will lean forward and rock back and forth on his hands and knees.  He is also scooting around (he mostly moves backwards).
• has one tooth
• likes to bang 2 toys together
• can clap his hands together
• can sign “more” (Video coming soon)
• can stand with little support.  Loves being in the standing position
• has found out that throwing objects on the floor is a fun game
• cries when Mommy leaves the room.  He also cries if he hears Ellie upset.
• has started making clicking sounds with his mouth
• loves to be around people.  He will often stare intently at someone or imitate a coughing sound to get their attention.
• is a very happy baby! 

Our letter this week was V..of course for Valentine’s Day.  Our shape this week was the heart.

Here are some Valentine and letter V links:

COHS: PreK Letter V

Over The Big Moon: Valentine’s PreK Pack

Totally Tots: V is for Vegetable

 

Finding all the v’s and covering them up using magnetic pom-poms.

V is for vase.  

Our V craft - vegetables

Our V collage with valentine hearts

Matching valentine pictures and words

Valentine number order puzzle

Making valentines

I hid 10 hearts around the room.  As she found them we placed them in order on the fireplace.

Coloring hearts

We did a few songs with our colored felt hearts.

Making a “Love Bug” using a big and little heart for the wings.

Our heart collage page.  

Next week:

Mm

m&m’s

Introduction of money (she’s been really interested in coins since she got her piggy bank for Christmas)

Happy Valentine’s Day! ~ The Bryans

We finally were able see some snow this winter.  Ellie was so excited when it started snowing that she was going around saying “It’s finally Winter!”.

Watching the snow starting to fall.

It wasn’t that much, but we’ll take it.

In other news, look what Liam has…

1st Tooth..February 12, 2012

This week we had fun learning about Space.  Our shape this week was stars.  I wasn’t sure if she would really enjoy this, but she loved it!  She gets so excited if she sees a picture of Earth, and will say “Look it’s Earth!  That’s where we live!!”

Here are some links to some of things we used this week as well as other Space resources:

Homeschool Creations: Astronaut Preschool Pack, A is for Astronaut letter craft

Totally Tots: Space Sensory tub, A is for astronaut, Crafty Corner Space

Space Jet Packs

Making Learning Fun: Space

1+1+1=1: Solar System Pack

Dot painting all the letter A’s.

Alphabet space puzzles

Coloring a rocket from a Kumon workbook.

Cutting a rocket.  (She’s getting pretty good with those scissors!)

Shadow matching

Pattern block rocket.  She actually did this all by herself with no help!

Rocket shape craft

Sorting “moon rocks” by color.

Drawing a rocket

Painting a rocket.  I cut out a rocket shape stencil and made a star stamp to make stars around the rocket.

Our star collage with star stickers.

She made a night sky for her star page.  (See the little part of the paper where it is daytime…She said that was Thailand)

Playing with our mini foam shapes.

Ready to blast off in our little rocket.  The rocket later turned into a car, boat, and then a house.  

We also worked more with our words see, and, the, a:

She found our words in the song “Twinkle, Twinkle”.

Played bingo

Word puzzles

I also made a little book using our words I see a and the.  (Forgot to take a picture) I used pictures from the astronaut preschool pack for the book.  Here are the words:

I see the astronaut.  I see the sun.  I see a rocket.  I see the moon and stars.  I see the Earth.

She read the entire book!!

We also took a day off of Space to talk about groundhogs.  We did a few activities to celebrate Groundhogs day.

We made a shadow for our groundhog.

We also made a groundhog puppet pop out of the ground.

My mom has made a quilt for each of her 7 grandchildren.  Liam’s quilt is now finished and it turned out so cute!!

(Love his little hand!)

Thanks Grandmama (and Aunt Dana)!!  

We have been fighting sickness for a few weeks now.  :(  At first, we all had some kind of stomach virus (except for Neale..he somehow missed out)  Then the kids had coughs/runny noses and fevers.  Last Monday, Liam had a fever all day (reached almost 103).  His fever went down on Tuesday, but had some vomiting until Thursday.  I took him in to the doctor on Thursday morning and poor guy had double ear infections!  Hopefully no more sickness for a while!!