OK, so it didn’t take Norah a month to learn the letter C (in fact, she knew it prior) but it took ME a month to get my act together! Between visitors (my Grandma spent 3 weeks with us!), sick kids (yuck), and catching up on sleep after said illnesses passed it took me this long to cover the letter C (and I didn’t even do all that I had planned). SIGH. I was also terrible about having my camera on hand so not everything is pictured, but here is some of our month of randomness : )
Tot Trays
Balancing different size marbles onto golf tees stuck in styrofoam. It’s a great fine motor workout.
Opening and closing a pill box to find mini-erasers. This is great for fine motor as well as a memory game.
For this activity I just colored a bunch of dots on a piece of paper then she used the colored reinforcement stickers to place around the matching color.
Letter Fun
Her rice box (always a favorite) was filled with all sorts of C’s and C objects!
Diving in!
Tracing the letter Cc.
Gluing her Cc collage together. This time she chose to use a glue-stick.
Lacing the letter C caterpillar. I printed this from here, laminated and punched holes in it. She still needs quite a bit of help lacing but she is getting so much better!
Number Fun
For this activity I would call out a number and she would place the large accent rock on top of the correct number. She really enjoyed when the rock would make the number look big! (This sheet was also printed from here).
We watched Toy Story 3 on Netflix and she really enjoyed it so I pulled out this simple puzzle I grabbed from the Dollar Tree a while ago and we worked on putting the numbers in order.
She played with her LeapFrog Count and Scan Shopper a lot! It is such a versatile toy and currently one of my favorites ; )
Color Fun
I printed these color puzzles from here, laminated and put velcro on them. She can already identify her colors correctly, but they were also great for language development (we talked about the objects underneath).
Brother got in on the action too (he had a thing for the black cat)!
I guess these wore her out! : )
She was really proud of herself when she sorted by color this matching game (yard sale find) without any initiation from me!
Artsy-Crafty Fun
Since we had the marbles out, we made a marble painting. I didn’t realize what a good motor activity it would also be since it took quite a bit of skill to tip the tray at a certain angle to roll the marbles.
Her masterpiece ; )
We finger painted our letter C (her first experience with the official “finger paint!”) I really had to coax her to get messy. She kept asking for a wipe, silly kid!
Playing Fun
Her favorite thing to do on a hot summer day is play on our back porch with her kitchen, table and water table (what more could a girl need?) I got the plastic “dinnerware” for about $6 at TJMAXX. She has already spent hours with it!
And when it starts to rain on us, it makes it even more fun.
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