Mid-week thoughts

So it's Wednesday of the first week of the 'preschool' thing. I can't really judge so far how useful it's been, but Kayla seems to enjoy what we've done so far. It hasn't been too much, but I also think this is more of a review for her, honestly. She's really good with recognizing shapes, letters, numbers, and a lot of animals already so those things aren't too much of a challenge. She still is learning the colors but she's much better now with them than a few months ago.

So on Monday, we put a picture of a cow and the word "CALF" on her learning poster. We colored pictures of cows, made a popsicle stick cow puppet (which, incidentally, is already in the garbage because she kept ripping the limbs off!) and I've been repeating the word "CALF" as much as I can think to do. We've read Click Clack Moo Cows that Type and looked at other pictures and books with cows and calves in them. I showed her videos of cows being milked online. She's pretty good with the whole cow thing and if you ask her what a baby cow is called, she says, "yalf!" so we're getting there.

On Tuesday, 'square' day, Kylie wasn't here because of the snow so we did an art project involving pasting small squares on a paper. We colored things with squares and we found things around the house that were square shaped (napkins, dish towels, etc.). She really recognizes the shapes super well, so I didn't feel the need to force much of that on her. We had a lazy day of square-searching and that pretty much sailed us easily through the day until bedtime. Of course we kept talking about cows and finished up one project from the day before... a paper plate cow.

Today is the Letter A day. She really does know how to identify the letter without hesitation, so I am taking another easy day with her. We will color some pictures of A's and pictures of things that begin with the A sound. I'll look for the letter A in her books with her at some point today, and maybe fingerpaint later so she can trace the letter A with her fingers.

So far this week has been fantastic! I'll update with pictures soon.