March 2011

Here are some of the activities that have been keeping us busy during the month of March.  We have also enjoyed swimming/wading, playing in the sandbox, building castles and rockets out of empty boxes, making Thomas train layouts, playing our new  Nickelodeon wii fit game, and a number of other things.

Justin (Cat in the Hat hat) and Ryan (orange hat) listen to a reading of Dr Seuss books at the Embassy community Dr Seuss celebration.  Justin thought it was weird to have a bday party for someone who was not there AND had never even been to Namibia.  He thought it was really weird when he found out Dr Seuss isn't even alive anymore.

J and I flipped a penny ten times and graphed the results.

Justin trying to predict if his penny will land on heads or tails this time.

Our Cat in the Hats.  Justin made his into a thank you card, but realized that he didn't know how to write "thank you" so he stopped trying and wrote "the end" because that is what you put at the end of things.

We put flashcards on the floor and one of us calls out a word and the other person has to shine the light on the word.  I have no idea while Blogger thinks it should rotate this picture sideways.

We sorted some cards in different ways.  Shown is by number of letters in the word.



Ryan was really into coloring with markers.



Justin building with the pattern blocks Meredith made.  Once again, Blogger thinks this picture looks better rotated.

Justin has patterns down, but he does not want to work on his cutting skills.  He has the most awkward grasp!  He was a better cutter 6 months ago when he accepted help with positioning the scissors.

This is Ryan's "leopard-con" which he for some reason thinks looks like Rob.  The hat?  Bushy beard?

Looking at letters with Dad.

Ryan has FINALLY started showing an interest in letters and numbers.  Much later than Justin, but he is getting there.  He knows 16 uppercase letters and some lowercase (like w).

The boys are getting ready to play a game that is based on one of the wii party games.  I don't mind building the game with them, but I can never keep up with the rules.

Ryan working on counting to ten with 1:1 correspondence.

Justin using his feet to manipulate the unifix cubes.  Lovely.

We were experimenting with different ways we could make ten.  Justin finds it fascinating that so many different combinations of numbers can add up to ten.

Ryan thinks he is pretty cool with cubes on his feet.

We were decorating hats for an alphabet safari.  Unfortunately, Ryan decided the letters should go Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and foam letters went flying of the table and all over the floor.

Ryan sporting his alphabet safari hat.

Justin adding the finishing touches to his alphabet safari hat.

We started our alphabet safari.  Each day, I give the boys a list of letters, and we go around the house looking for things that start with those letters.  We have taken many pictures.  When we finish the whole alphabet, we will choose our favorite pictures and put them in a powerpoint.  The boys have been having a lot of fun.

Justin with Brown Bear, Brown Bear manipulatives, retelling the story in his own order.

Ryan has the leters up the coconut tree, but they will come crashing down soon.  Chicka Chicka Boom BOOM!