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Showing posts with label D week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label D week. Show all posts

Monday, February 13, 2012

"D" Week

E(2) received her "D" ABC Fun Pack a few weeks ago, and she really enjoyed it!

I'm going to try to stay on each letter for a week rather than 3 or 4 weeks like I've done in the past.  The problem is that I keep thinking of more and more fun activities, so we are slow to move on to the next letter.  E already knows most of the letters, so a week is more than long enough to focus on one letter, and I really want to finish all 26 letters before she turns 3 (because I already have her next "subscription" planned, and I want to be finished with the ABC fun pack before I start the next fun pack subscription).

So, here's D...

Tracing the sandpaper letter d.




She loved playing with the D objects, and she especially loved the dogs, dolphins, and ducks.















E's favorite thing in her ABC fun pack was the dinosaur egg!  She put it in a jar of water and waited for it to hatch.  She kept asking "Can I take it out now?"  30 seconds later "Now?"  and on and on and on... She was thrilled when she saw the dinosaurs head breaking through the egg the day after she put it in the water!


She loved spreading out the dinosaur cards and looking at and talking about them all. 

She loved playing with her "Dress-Up Dolls" (paper dolls). 


We played with our mama duck and baby ducklings and read the companion book. 

We found diamond shapes around the house using our diamond "window."

E really loves her dog stickers and sticker book. 

We had fun looking at dinosaur reels using the viewmaster. 
 

We read Dancing with Degas every day.  She LOVES this book!

E(2) has 3 books from the Mini Masters series, and she loves all of them (and we hope to get more of them for Easter and birthdays!).  A few days ago, she said she was doing something (I can't remember what) "like Picasso."  Just last night she pointed to a pic of a Degas' painting of ballerinas and said "that's Degas!"


Saturday, January 21, 2012

Dinosaur Roar! and A Dinosaur Felt Board Activity

Dinosaur Roar! was one of E(2)'s favorite books during "D" week, so I was excited to find printable story props for this book on KizClub.com.



After printing out the dinosaurs, I cut them out and glued small pieces of sandpaper to the back.  The sandpaper works perfectly, and they stuck to our felt board.   Both girls LOVE playing with the dinosaurs.




After they played with them for a while, I read the book and we put the dinosaurs in order as I read.