It's been a busy week! We had family visiting so school got put on the back burner until the left, but L-Bug was READY to get to it! She is really LOVING the daily theme posters for this week. She just sits and looks at all the kids and describes what they are doing or how they feel and basically tells me a story all about it :) This week L-Bug has done a lot of tracing practice check out this video of L-Bug working hard to practice writing her name! I got this idea from another blogger I drew the dash marks on a name tag and then used laminating paper to adhere it to the table. Then L-Bug uses a dry erase marker to practice her tracing. She has really started to like this activity :) We talked about how we use our names to introduce our-selves to new people too. After she does a little practice on the erasable name tag she gets out her pencil and works in her little journal! I like having her start on the erasable name tag first because it's a good way to remind her tracing is slow and takes patience. For the new letter pages she did the lines all on her own and then mommy helped guide her while tracing the first few {F f} letters, then I let her do the last few on her own! L-Bug could not get enough of these Friend Puppets and her Tree Hand craft from this week! She has literally played with the friend puppets extensively EVERY DAY since we have made them. She was so excited to put clothes on these friends. She told me "But what about their pants mommy!?" I explained if we put pants on them it would be hard for us to carry them and hold them. For our tree hand project we talked about how we can use our hands to be friendly to someone (like waving or shaking there hand). We also talked about how everyone has different hands: some are big, others are little, there are lots of different skin colors, some people have short nails and others have long nails (or pretty painted nails L-Bug pointed out). Then we talked about the lines we saw on our hands and fingers and I explained that everyone has special lines called finger prints that were different from everyone else! Manipulatives were a big hit this week too! She built lots of castles with the tangrams. One day we used the tangrams to find parts of our body that were shaped similar: rectangle=fingers, belly button=circle, diamond=ear, triangle=nose, etc... L-Bug had me lay on the floor as she put different shapes on my face for eyes, nose and mouth. She liked to sort her buses in color piles... and she even parked them all in rows! We talked about the different ways people say hello and met some "Global Friends"! L-Bug was excited to tell me all about the boys and girls in the pictures and we talked about how they were similar or different than ourselves. She repeated the different ways (and languages) other children say hello. We even added our own Spanish, German and Italian in there and talked about our own global friends living in Italy, Germany, Hawaii and Australia. On another day we talked about all of the different places you can meet your friends are! L-Bug named: school, church, "Illi's house", play group and the park. Then we played a fun game with our school buses where I rolled the die for L-Bug and she would run a school bus to that card! She was excited running all over doing this game, at first she was searching each card trying to find the right one, but after she went to them she remembered where they were the next time around. Once we were all done running the buses around we pulled each card over to the center, lined up the buses and counted how many buses went to each stop. I asked L-Bug which place had the most buses and she told me "the Library!". We did a little "personal preference" and I asked L-Bug where her favorite place was to go and play with friends. She said the park :) We talked about different feelings and how we know when someone is mad or sad, etc. Then L-Bug described all of the faces (except she though surprised was happy) and then she mimicked them. We talked about different things that change our emotions and how we can act when someone else is mad, scared or sad. I'm really excited to delve into next week because we are going to talk more about the different emotions and L-Bug is starting to go through that "2 year old phase" where she start to get pouty, irritated or just bursts into tears for no apparent reason. Your probably thinking "Yeah... why are you excited then?", I'm excited because I hope that learning more about her own feelings will help L-Bug to verbally explain how she feels and what is making her feel that way. She's pretty vocal as it is, but lately her emotions have taken the front seat and her use of words is in the fifth row of the passenger van...
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