Letter K and Painting

~Bella is 32 months~

~Caiden and Ada are 16 months~

So for our letter work, we are now on K.  Because of our break from letters because of the move, Bella had a refreshed desire to work!

So excited about the progress on this activity.  Before this was difficult for her and now she is doing well and enjoys doing it.

Then she did her letter poke work.  She used a thumb tack to poke her letter...

Then we did Big and Small sorting.  This was hard for her and Big and Little K look very similar...

She worked on some prewriting skills.  I worked very closely on this with her to help her understand and focus on doing it correctly...

And since K is for Kite, she color matched the kite with the string...

Then she worked on a puzzle.  She looked at the computer to see what the puzzle looked like completed.  We started to focus more on doing puzzles.

Then one day she went to Nanna's house to play.  Nanna is a kindergarten teacher and she got all these fun things for learning for Bella.  They worked on it together.  It was all Bella could talk about when she came home!

Then we played a farm animal memory match game a couple days.

After getting these awesome foam blocks from Nanna, we worked with them at home.  She used them to count...

And eventually went to building with them...

Then we did some Wikki Stick work.  She has definitely gotten better at this since that last time we played with them.

For our art project with the twins, we did Dot art again...  No eating of the dot paint this time tho!

After Dot Paints got boring we went to finger painting...

The twins were a little shocked that I was letting them make such messes! hehe

Once they got over the initial "Can you believe momma is letting us get all messy like this!!!!"  

They started to paint the paper...

The we played with popsicle sticks and cans again with holes in the lids...

And while the twins were busy Bella was allowed to play with her Melissa and Doug magnetic dolls.  She is really loving these lately but the twins are too little for them, so she loves every opportunity she gets to play with them!

Resources:

http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2010/03/prek-letter-k.html

Disclaimer:

All photos of activities seen are just a moment in time in our day and the activity itself.  Don't be fooled, those happy smiles are not there the entire length of the activity.  We are real people here too, people who struggle with sharing, OCD, being tired, apathy and the like.  These photos are just to show what the activities are and a reminder to self of what we have done and where we have come.