Week 12 - Letter F

So I completely forgot to post about our Letter F week....from over 2 weeks ago!!  F was a fun week for us...

Our memory verse that week was John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."  I was a little skeptical that Jenna would be able to memorize the verse since it's so much longer than our regular verses, but once again, the sponge-like minds of kids this age surprised me!  I think she had it completely memorized after day 3.  Oh to still be able to memorize things that quickly!

Letter F computer game - always a favorite!

Wikki Stix

I just love his smile here!  This time around I gave him an extra letter, but it didn't seem to throw him for a loop.  He still found and correctly placed all the letters.

Jenna's a pro at this

                 

Size sorting

Another great grin.  Jenna was doing her poke page and he wanted to do it also.  So I gave him a thumbtack, explained the correct way to use a thumbtack!, and gave him a blank sheet of paper to poke away.  He really enjoyed it!

Letter F pattern blocks

Fish lacing card

If I remember right, I believe Grant wanted us to have our picture taken...

We decided to make some fudge...however, it was my first time making fudge and I botched it up.  So we never got to even try it!  I guess that just means I'll have to try it again here soon.  :)

Pre-writing

Do-a-dot markers

If I remember right, I think Jenna completed this page all on her own.  Very proud of her for sounding out the pictures and circling the correct ones!

Color puzzles

Fish alphabet lacing

The kids making the letter F with their bodies.

A measuring activity using Goldfish

Jenna even correctly estimated the number of Goldfish needed to measure the length of the blue fish. 

Paint tracing bag - Jenna was looking up at the alphabet on the wall to figure out how to write the F.  Grant looks thrilled, doesn't he?  In his head he's saying, "If I could just open this bag, then I'd REALLY have some fun!"

Patterns

Cinderella joined us for a few activities.  ;) 

Making a capital and lowercase F with her geoboard.  I love her creativity with the lowercase F.  :)

I made these puppets last year as a Christmas gift for Grant, so I pulled them out and we sang, "Old MacDonald had a Farm" while using the puppets. 

We traced Jenna's feet, cut them out, and made the letter F with them.

Letter maze

We had free kid's meal coupons to Frisch's Big Boy restaurant, so we went there for dinner one night.

We also had some Frosty's that week.  Yum!!

Cutting page

Jenna copied the pattern

Capital and lowercase sorting

Letter hunt

Letter writing practice

She surprised me with her coloring page.  I just expected her to quickly color the fish  and maybe the seaweed, so I was surprised when she had also colored the sand and water.  I've noticed she's starting to enjoy coloring more.

We also cut some Food with her Melissa and Doug wood food cutting toy that she got from Aunt Cathy a few years back.  It's still a favorite!

Grant wanted to get in on the action...

But apparently the knife just wasn't cutting it, so he grabbed his saw.  Drew was so proud.  ;)  Haha!

For her ABC book, we crushed some Froot Loops and glued them to the letter F page.

Fish puzzle

Magnet page, but this time we used the decorative marbles.

For the fish graphing pages, I had Jenna use Goldfish to fill in the graph and then she also used the number cards to correctly label the fish. 

Of course, at the end of the week, we read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and put up the letter F on our tree.

Jenna's cut and paste page.  It was a lot of cutting, but she did it!  I love how the eyes and fins are off on their own.  ;)