B Week

B is for BUGS!  One of Emmery's favorite things!  First we started with the ABC Box.

 She is going through that awkward smile phase.  This is what I get when I ask her to smile.

B is for Book!

The next activity we did was a color matching "game."  Basically she had to put the little circle bee inside the flower that was the same color.  This was very easy for her once I explained, "okay so this flower is red, put the red bee on it."

Also included in this activity is a blank flower with the color written on it.  Obviously she can't read yet, but I want to get her used to the way the words look.  If I just gave her the stack of words she would most likely just give up, so instead I read each word and then let her place that card in front of each color.  I need to do this activity often for the association to stick...

Another activity we did was with shaving cream.  OMG does she love shaving cream!  So I put the B on the table and covered it with shaving cream.  Then showed her how to use one finger to trace the B through the shaving cream.

She still has a very hard time with writing letters.  She does an Elmo app on the iPad that has helped her a lot though.  Before that, she really struggled even drawing a straight line.  She's getting better, but as you can see she was too excited to play with the shaving cream to focus on writing the B.

 One of her favorite things to do is to smell it!  She kept saying "it smells good mommy."

Oh, and if you're wondering where I got all this laminated stuff... With the Jacksonville shop closing, Mikey was able to get first pick at a bunch of stuff they had.  One of the things he thought to grab was the laminator.  Sooo glad he did that.  We probably spent about two hours on Sunday laminating.  It is so friggin awesome.  We both kept looking around the house going, hmmm, maybe we should laminate that.  We actually did laminate a couple of written recipes we had laying around.