Letter Day Catch Up

I have been such a slacker about posting our weekly letter day activities. They are still happening! Here are some of the things we've done.

I never posted about letter K. But Suzy did a great job with it. She had the kids make K's with their bodies. We even made a giant K out of people on the floor. I was the straight stick, and Ivan and Kaitlyn were the arm and leg coming off of the K. It was fun. We also put on chapstick and kissed a paper letter K. And made fruit ka-bobs.

For M, Suzy did a monkey theme. She read the five little monkeys jumping on the bed book. We made trees by tearing pieced of paper and gluing them in place. Then we used peanuts for monkeys and put 5 monkeys in the tree. They turned out really cute. Suzy also invented this awesome monkey snack out of a bagel, apple, cream cheese, raisins, and Nilla wafers. Cute!

I did N. I did not take any pictures. I meant to. Ivan was being kind of a stinker that day and not super willing to participate. BUT we read a book called Little Bunny's Noisy Book, which is one of our favorites. Then we played a little game on the computer, two animals would pop up on the screen and you would hear a Noise, and then you had to guess which of the two animals made that noise. The kids had a great time with that. Then we made noodle necklaces.

Suzy did O. We looked through ads in the paper and cut out pictures of things that were orange and glued them onto a paper with the letter O. Then we took cheerios and glued them on too, because they are shaped like an O. We also played an opposites matching game. I did not take pictures.

My turn for P. I decided to do a St. Patrick's day theme for P. I read the kids a book about why we celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Then we played pin the hat on the leprechaun. Then I told them about pinching, and how you get pinched if you don't wear green. I'd made up a sheet with a bunch of different animals on it, some were green or had green parts, and some were not. I have the kids a handful of clothespins and told them to pinch the animals that weren't wearing green. I thought it was a fun alternative to pinching each other. :) Then we had a green parade. We invited Lincoln and Nathan and Ryan and Adelia to join us, and we marched down to the stop sign and back, showing off our green. When we got home, we made pots of gold at the end of the rainbow using Fruit Loops. I thought they turned out cute.

Ivan, Nathan, Kaitlyn, Adelia, and Lincoln, sporting their St. Patty's Day green.

And yesterday, Suzy did letter Q. She read us a book about ducks who say quack! Then we got to glue pictures of things that start with Q onto a paper with a Q on it. Then she flipped through alphabet cards and every time she came to a Q or a q we had to quack like a duck. The kids thought that was funny. Then she did a quarter toss. And at the end we ate Q shaped quesadillas.