5 Senses: Hearing Day 2

Last day of the 5 senses!  Next month we move onto the body...  (that's going to be interesting).

For our letter review today, we did two new things:

I made 2 sets of letter cards (I plan to add some pictures to them in the near future, but it took me quite a bit of time to make the cards and with two kids, time is a luxury).  With the cards, I took the A-D and we played memory.  We took turns picking cards and we had to say the name of the letter we found, while looking for matches.  Of course, she cheated a little, but she really enjoyed it! And she is doing a pretty good job at recognizing the letters.

Our second game was Alphabet Olympics.  I printed off the paper that tells you what each letter stands for.  We used the cards and I laid them on the floor.  She jumped to the first letter, we did the chant, the action, and the sound several times, then she jumped to the next one.  We went through A-D and then did them 3 or 4 more times through.  She enjoyed the actions and although she wasn't stellar with the chants, I figure we'll do this every week, adding that week's letter and she'll get good at it as time goes on.  Overall, I am pleased with her efforts so far with the first 4 letters.

We also of course read her "D" book from this week and she practiced writing her 4s and her Ds.  She is having a hard time separating "b" and "d", so I am going to do some research on best practices for that and add that to next week.  (Seriously, my kid is so cute.  :) )

Then on to our "hearing".  We first played "Simon Says" and she had to listen for the magic words.  She LOVED the actions, but she sucked at listening for "Simon" to tell her to do it.  She got a chance to be Simon and thought that was hysterical, telling me what to do.  Once again, she most often forgot to say "Simon Says" and then was confused as to why I wouldn't do it.  :)

Then we played "Marco Polo" hide-and-seek.  She would hide and I would yell "Marco".  She forgot to say "Polo" half the time and instead would giggle, but once again, she loves it.  Then I would hide and she would come find me.  This time she kept yelling "polo" instead of "Marco", but overall, it was an easy, fun day full of giggles.  What more could you want?