Letter J Week- Completed!

Letter J week was a pretty successful week. We kept ourselves busy and got to everything I was hoping we would, except for getting to Jumping Jungle. Their website stinks! And they always change their open bounce times. We learned the very hard way after showing up one day only to find their schedule had changed. That doesn't make for a happy 3 year old.

Anyway...

And here are some of our J papers for the week-

(Don't mind the corner being a work-in-progress as far as the organization goes- when it's done I think it's going to be cute!)



We went to the library where Kayla had more fun playing on the computer than reading, and we signed up for weekly storytime starting this week. Should be interesting. We got some J books to read-

We made some Jellyfish out of cups and tissue paper-

And we also made some out of small plastic bags and an empty plastic container. Although there actually was Windex in there, that is actually only water with a little blue food coloring in it. This was pretty cute, except in hindsight, I think I'd add a small stone to the head of the jellyfish. I   stuffed it with wet cotton balls assuming the weight of the balls would keep our little guy from floating at the top, but it needed just a little more.

Conveniently, J week happened to fall during January, so I made a big calender to hang for her to begin learning days of the week. I'll eventually get pictures of all the family for their birthdays and add holidays as well. If I could find a place to laminate around here I'd just make one generic calender forever, but until then I just will make a new one each month.

She's been very excited to move the snowflake each day (attached with some of that blue sticky tack stuff) and we talk about the new day of the week.

J is for Jump!

And just some misc. Pictures-

And to celebrate the snow yesterday, we made a snow globe-

That's just a Nutella container cleaned out, a pink duck hot glued to the cap, and filled with glitter and water. I also used hot glue around the seal of the container to help prevent leaking, but it seemed ok after a few good shakes.

We also used Jelly Beans to count, made some Jello, and since the original curriculum didn't have a character trait (only bible lessons, which we don't use) we discussed being joyful and drew lots of smiley faces!

We also tried jumping rope- but we've got a long way to go for that, I think! She is, however, proficient at jumping jacks. =)