J is for Jesus (Plus the Letter M & Color Red)

We were combining lessons this week because we were playing catch up, so we learned about a few different letters and colors. We reviewed the letter S, and then introduced the letter M and J. The boys were all excited when we were naming things that began with the letters because we named a few of them too! (J is for Jared and R-J!, & M is for Max!)

We started learning about the letter J. We talked about Jesus, sang Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, and even read a few books about Jesus and Jesus' birth. We quickly were losing their interest, so I read a curious George book because he is a curious Monkey and monkey starts with M! I don't think I've seen the boys act so good!

We reviewed colors too - we pointed out things that were white (from previous lesson) and then pointed out things that were red. Jared liked to show off his awesome red shirt.

Then it was time to practice writing the letters we were learning. We started with M & J, and used the cute individual chalk boards to do that. The kids all enjoyed that. (The video makes it look like not all of them did, but I promise they did haha!)

                                         


And then of course it was time to get creative, so the boys cut out strips of red paper to make red and white upside down candy canes in the shape of a J. And since J was for Jesus the boys also cut out yellow strips of paper for straw and glued that on the bottom of the J with baby Jesus.

And then my RED berries decided to go bad, so we enjoyed colorful goldfish crackers. The boys all had to pick out the red ones to show me before they could eat them, and they all had fun with that too.

Thanks Amber for helping out. :)

I is for inchworm

So, we  learned about the letter "i." But first we did the pledge of allegiance. That is my favorite part. The kiddos have to figure out which hand is their right hand, which one is their left hand, and then they put it on their heart or their bellies. You know...somewhere in the general vicinity of heart location. Totally cute.

Then we tried cutting inchworms with lower case and upper case i's, so we could match them. It turned into a big paper carnage without any matching at all.

We went outside and gathered little crab-apples and stuff that fell from the neighbor's yard. Also some tomatoes from the vines. Then we counted them with Everett. Because, he likes counting.  He really wanted to give his mom a little apple. I think he did.

We also sang some songs, and did some preschool yoga. They were good at downward dogs. Cutest little dogs ever. (R.J. did not want to try the yoga. Not at all, no matter how much he likes dogs, he did not want to do a yoga dog).