The letter D is not an easy letter to learn. It sounds like B and is funny shaped. Munchkin still keeps saying B? This is one letter we will have to keep working on.
Here's what we did this past week...
Monday: We worked on letter recognition. For each letter I set up a board with the Letter, A picture of something that begins with that letter, A flashcard of that letter, Puzzle letter, and a foam letter. I also hang above it a collage of the letter were working on.
Tuesday: I made letter cards to work on matching. I used note cards and wrote uppercase on the front and lowercase on the back, making about 4 of each. Then used a big sheet of paper with the uppercase and lowercase letter written on it to place the note cards onto (It became a matching game). That afternoon we also went to National Night Out and had lots of fun.
Wednesday: We went to our first October Play and Learn at Central Library. We checked out some more alphabet themed books to read at home and review letters with.
Thursday: We read "Bad Kitty" By: Nick Bruel. It was the cutest book ever! We looked through the letters and he loved it!
Friday: We went to SeaWorld San Antonio Howl-O-Scream.
Saturday: We did highlighter letters and read the books. We spent alot of time outside (I was decorating the house while munchkin played).
Sunday: We colored letter D animals and we worked with flashcards I made using this free site http://www.mrprintables.com/index.html . I printed them out on regular paper and then I used a glue stick to stick them onto thick cardboard paper and then carefully cut them out. They came out great!
This week with the Letter D was not so great. He still confuses it with B and has a hard time writing it. But atleast when we review A, B and C he still has them ingrained in his mind. He can pick them out of a jumble of letter blocks, books and signs. We are going to keep working on the letters A - D (especially D and more on handwriting).
Any tips on learning the letters of the alphabet? What worked for you? Especially with handwriting skills
Last week we went to Opening day of SeaWorld Howl-O-Scream. We went in the morning and only stayed until around 4pm. We did alot of kid friendly activities like trick or treating and The Counts Unhaunted castle. But this Friday we wanted to check out what goes on after dark when the monsters come out. So we got to Seaworld in the afternoon this Friday and had so much fun!
We went to Jack's Frightmare Forest first (4-5:30 is family friendly and after 6 is spooky). They were playing ghostbusters as moms with strollers went through the forest. No monsters jump out at you (during family friendly time) and creepy music and fog is off. Munchkin loved looking at the spiders and scarecrows. The one area he didn't want to go through and had to be carried through was the cockroaches (Don't worry there fake). But I cant blame him.... I want to jump on a chair when I see a real one.
After Frightmare Forest we went to go see the all New Clyde and Seamore's Monster Mix-Up (New show this season). It was really cute and a fun!
Getting out of the show it was already getting dark and I brought from home lots of glowsticks and glow in the dark monsters, so when munchkin saw the vendors I'd magically have something cool that glows from inside my backpack. We connected glowstick bracelets to make necklaces and tiaras too (for me and my sister). We put on tattoos from home too that had monsters on them.
Tip: To save money and tears from kids when you have to say no.... Bring in your own fun gear to Seaworld. Buy glowsticks from target they have packs of ten glowsticks for $1. They even have shapes like swords and wands that glow (so does the dollar store).
As your passing by Steel Eel and look over to the lake it looks like a scene from right out of the movie "The Mist" where a mist like fog comes onto the water and you cant see past it but inside its bringing monsters. That's what it looked like as we got close to the area marked as a "Scare Zone" (clearly marked on the park map as the scary section after 6pm).
Here is a bit of the spookiness we saw after 6pm ...
(around Jacks Frightmare forest the fog is so strong that you cant see past your hand and the glowsticks your wearing will come in handy for people to spot you)
As it got darker more appeared...
On our way out we caught a show of the Gravediggers which are a band of the undead strolling along playing music.
We couldn't stay too late this Friday night so we left past 9 and didn't get to see a couple more things on our list but there is always next week and I think were going to try to stay until closing. We had alot of fun and munchkin saw alot of awesome looking monsters, which even after dark in the scare zones will be friendly to kids (Thankyou Seaworld for that). But if your an adult watch out! Because the monsters hide behind bushes, blend into the background and jump out of everywhere. Its alot of fun and we will be back soon to enjoy some more of Seaworld's Howl-O-Scream.
If you want to check out our Family friendly first visit during the day of Howl-O-Scream here is the Link: SeaWorld San Antonio Howl-O-Scream 2012
With a new month came new play and Learn opportunities. I was glad that at Central library they were going to continue them so of course bright and early Wednesday morning off we went to play and Learn. We took a nice trolley ride from the Alamo to the library (always fun).
We started off the day with ants in pants game.
The theme of the day was animals. We read the book "Hello Baby" and had activities set up to explore animals like modeling clay, books to look at, animal figures and puppets.
Munchkin had lots of fun like always and we checked out new books to take home. They are going to keep doing Play and Learn sessions at Central Library every Wednesday this month from 9:30- 10:20. Come out and Play and learn then check out some books and enjoy downtown.
