Seasons: Winter

I decided to add a new thing to our daily routine... writing her name!  At this point she will only be tracing it, but it should help her learn to recognize her own name and the more she practices writing the letters, the sooner it will be that she can write it on her own.  I got the tracing from this website.  You can type in whatever word(s) you want and it will produce a tracing sheet.

For our letter practice today we did some shaving cream letters.  I smeared shaving cream all over the table and then she practiced writing the letters in it.  I showed her the letter card so she would have a reference for what they looked like.  I thought she would enjoy this a lot more than she did.  I forgot how much she hates to have her hands dirty.  (She was excited at the beginning.  When I first sprayed it on the table, she yelled, "What? Are you crazy?"  Haha)

For our numbers practice, I wrote a number on an index card and she used a hole puncher to make that many holes in the card.  (This is also good for fine motor skills.)  This was actually a little harder than I thought, since the hole punch is new and very stiff.  So we hole punched together.

After she finished, we then put the numbers in order from 1-10.  Idea found here.

 Our theme was more about the seasons.  It worked out perfectly since it snowed today and I had planned to talk about winter.  :)  So we started by reading A Snowy Day and Millions of Snowflakes.  We then used paper to make some of our own snowflakes.  I'm sure you can tell which ones I did and which ones she did.  Haha, she loved using "mommy scissors" to do this.

 Then we painted a snowman.  My original intention had been to use cotton balls to make one, but apparently I don't have any.  So I used this painting idea.  (I had been thinking of using this paint idea, but found the other one first.  We'll do this one on another day.)

I guess I should have gotten a picture of the final product.  It's pretty awesome.