Letter J and Teeny Tots

~Bella is 31 months~

~Twins are 13 months~

So we managed to get in some letter work this week.  Not as much as I would have liked, but it will do.  It is the summer time right?  So we are on letter J now.  We did "J" for Jelly Bean.

Here she did her little and big "J" sorting...

Then we did some Dot art...

Patterns with Jelly Beans...

Then she matched colors and shapes...

For numbers, the jelly beans had dots on one side that she had to count and find the matching number...

Then we did some of the beloved Play dough!

TEENY TOT SCHOOL

For the twins we first worked with counting bears and cut up toilet paper tubes.  They really liked this activity.  They would stack the tubes, put the bears in the tubes, watch the bears fall out of the tubes...

Next we used popsicle sticks.  My original idea was to have them put them into an ice cube tray I have that are cylindrical.  This was NOT interesting to them...

So I revamped the activity and gave them old formula cans with holes pocked in the lids.  They LOVED this activity.  They in fact could not get enough of it!

Bella even enjoyed doing this activity with her brother and sister...

However, Bella thought the pretzels from her snack would be a better choice to put in the ice cube trays :)

We also did some pre-writing work (really its just drawing lol)

For the first time, I taped a huge piece of paper to the table and gave everyone some crayons to work with.  This was an O.K. activity.  The twins just always wanna eat the crayons! lol

So the next way we tried drawing was with dry erase markers.  "SHE GAVE THEM MARKERS?!?!?!"  lol yes I did :) 

And you know what they did MUCH better with the markers then the crayons!  I have no clue why.  But they hardly every put them in their mouths!

Then we got out the dollhouse.  We haven't played with this for a while, as the twins were always frustrating Bella with it.  But this time they all played very nicely.

And the girls played like typical girls.....

And Caiden???

Well he was typical boy :)

And a little Fourth of July cuteness for you :)

Resources:

http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2010/05/j-is-for-jelly-bean-alternative.html