Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Mmmmmm...M&Ms

Letter Mm has probably been my favorite week, lesson, to teach because it was the most fun and who can resist the yummy dark chocolate M&Ms??  
Here is a glimpse at our week:

Patterns!
  
Size Sorting-lining the M&Ms up in order according to size

Color matching-matching the colored clothes pins to the correctly colored M&M

Letter Tracing 

 M&M counting

More counting-placing the correct number of gems on each number

Color Sorting with M&Ms
 TA-DA!!

 M and M spelling 

 Joshua's Turn at M&M color matching
 

Eating M&Ms
 Don't you think about taking my M&Ms
 and they all got stuffed into her mouth  at once :)

Hunting for letter Mms
 

Writing letter M
 
 

Writing out new words by sounding them out 

Letter Graphing

Coloring!!
 Checking out brother's page
 All Done

 Letter M collage :)  Always the highlight of the week!!
  I did it!
 He wanted me to take his picture, but wouldn't give me a good smile

Letter Matching
 
   

There you have it...a glimpse at our letter Mm week :)  It was full of Mmmm, Mmmm, M&M goodness!!!

Monday, August 6, 2012

Letter L...for this LAZY blog mama!!


So life has kept me busy and away from my blog once again, I hate that!, but hopefully I can get a chance to catch up here before life REALLY has me running around like a chicken with my head cut off!!

Here is some more LOTW catch up:
Ll

Finding the correct letters to match to spell out the word of the week.  This particular week is Ll is for LADYBUG

 Madelynn loves to find the letters...and she's really good at it too!!
 Moo's turn
 Look mom, I did it!
 Madelynn working with lowercase letters (orange)

Working on our alphabet puzzle
I love the way that Madelynn puts together these puzzles 
All Done

Tracing the letter Ll with gems
All done :) 
 Using gems on our Do-A-Dot page

Writing practice for letter Ll
 Almost done

 Letter Hunt
 All done...Joshua  has really gotten good at finding the letters in the paragraph

Size matching...biggest to smallest
 smallest to biggest

Color matching...matching the colored word to the correct color ladybug
 All Done

Writing our our capital Ls...Joshua does so well, I'm really a proud mama!!
Concentrating so hard! 
 

A close up of his letters

My beautiful Madelynn Rene'
  
Shaving Cream :)
 spreading it out so we can practice writing our letters
 Madelynn was a little hesitant
but she got into it 

Coloring sheets :)
 All Done

Patterns
 he's come so far with this one this year!
 Almost done

Capital L and lowercase l sorting
 perfect placement!

Shape Matching
 Concentrating so hard
.Joshua is so proud, complete with cocky smirk :)

So there you have it...a glimpse at our letter Ll